About

About Gene Boswell
My name is Street Minister Gene “Bones” Boswell and this is a testimony of what Jesus Christ is willing to do if you let Him. Mr. & Mrs. George M. Boswell Jr. raised me in a good home; they loved Jesus and me very much. I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior around 1967, I was thirteen. I had not been taught that by accepting Jesus as my Savior, I had left Satan’s reign and he would want me back. Well by not being taught that he would want me back, by 1969 I was back listening to him, thinking about me, myself and I. I rebelled against my parents at every avenue I could. I ran away from home to Florida several times giving no thought to mom or dad. The first drug I ever did was LSD. Over the years I have used Pot, Cocaine, Heroin, PCP even to the extent of mixing the Cocaine and Heroin that was called speedballs. When all you care about is yourself you learn to use people to benefit your purpose. Would you believe I could cry when I needed to, it came in very handy. All addicts learn to use the weaknesses of those that call themselves Christians. 

My first two wives’s were a product of being immature; I do not believe I could understand love without Jesus in my life. From 73  to  79  I completed 6 years 2 months 13 days of military service and received an Honorable Discharge. I also received three felony’s sentences between 81 and 85, thinking the world owed me a living. During the 81 to 85 timing I lost my mother and father and without Jesus Christ in my life I was spinning out of control worse every day. From 85 to 90 were still pretty much a blur, but during that time I met my third wife. Brenda Jeffries and I were equally yoked because we both thought only of ourselves, we marred in 93. From 93 to 2003 were some really hard years, but that was all about to change. 

There is not enough time to tell you every evil, dirty, nasty, illegal thing that I ever did. But please believe me I was no good. In November of 2003 my friend DQ Roberts and his wife Beth came to find and visit me as they had done so many times. You see he wanted to share Jesus with me. He found Brenda and myself really down and out and high. They invited us over to his mothers home the next day and reluctantly we showed up. 

I talked of old times and they talked of the new times. They prayed, God told them to bless us with their last two hundred dollars. They did and we left with bad intentions. Brenda and I got to the stop sign at the end of the street and like white on rice the Holy Spirit jumped on me. We used the money to eat and move to the country. All the time the Holy Spirit was cleaning out all that I had filled myself up with.  On December of 2003 I submitted to the will of Jesus the Christ at the hanging of the wreaths at Burlington First Baptist Church on Broad Street. That day Jesus told me I was no longer an addict, my addiction was gone! I still drank beer until February of 2004 when Jesus ask me for my drinking habit, so I gave it to him. In March Jesus ask me for my cigarette habit, I gave it to him. At the end of March 2010 I have been free from bondage for seven years. My wife Brenda has followed suit to include giving Jesus her cigarette addiction in 2008. 

Today this story is not as much about where I have been as it is where Jesus is leading us. Today Brenda and I are equally yoked again and oversee Lost Souls Ministry a 501-c3 fully accountable ministry. I am Ordained through Greater Love World Outreach Ministries. Under Lost Souls Ministry is the Circle of Hope Inner-City Church for God’s children, a Street Ministry, a Bread Ministry, a Learning Center and we are looking into a men’s recovery home that will be called the Lazarus House. God has done more in seven years through me than I did in forty-eight on my own. You see it is not about me, it never was but I had to learn this. It is about love. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way, Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. Love never fails 1Cor. 13:4-8a. 

I am always available to speak and share this testimony of Jesus Christ to all Christian believers and unbelievers. I have never charged in sharing God’s word. I believe that Jesus always is willing to provide for me anywhere He is guiding me. 

Gene Boswell works as a missionary full time for Lost Souls Ministry. He can be found nights, weekdays and weekends serving people in the street. Gene is always seeking places for Lost Souls Ministry to seed and feed. Gene can also be found doing home and hospital visits and counseling sessions. 

Luke 14:23
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

WHO WE ARE

Lost Souls was formed to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ to suffering communities. Gene (Bones) Boswell and his wife Brenda began this ministry by walking the streets and handing out Bibles and ministering to anyone who would listen.

Lost Souls Ministry is not a church, we have no congregation, we pass no plate.Any funding comes thru the community. Lost Souls Ministry is a 501 ( C (3)) Tax Exempt Organization. Your help is greatly needed to perform this service for our community. Lost Souls Ministry was formed in September of 2005 and has been growing ever since.

WHAT WE DO

We go into the most spiritually war torn of communities, shut down the streets and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through preaching, praise and worship, food, drinks, clothing, and children’s activities to those who have lost all hope. Helping a hurt and dying world starts in your own community. You don’t have to look abroad to see the hungry, the poor, the lost, the abused. They are all around us.  We are reaching out to people,churches and businesses in this our community with the hope that they will reconnect to their community through Lost Souls Ministry and provide an opportunity for the lost,addicted and low income famlies. This ministry  involves connecting with compassion,empowering with resources and developing for the long term,all in partnership with this our community. Lost Souls Ministry is a volunteer ministry from the labor to the finances. If you would like to volunteer, please see our contact page.

We CAN take back our communities if we all work together.

BE BAPTIZED

Lost Souls Ministry has a collapsible portable Baptistery. It is 24″ deep x 70′ long x 24″ wide and holds 200 gallons of water. Empty and folded up it weighs only 30 pounds. The Baptistery is filled and drained with a garden hose.

We would love to come to your church, ministry or street to be a part of Matthew 28: 19-20.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen