Spiritual Road is an operating identity for Dave Butcher and Carolyn Richards' Christian programs. Dave and Carolyn have been married since 1998 and love spreading God's messages to the world. Both are award winning artists. They have been featured on several local and national TV shows.

Carolyn Richards is a national, and internationally known, recording artist that started out singing country music at the jams her parents held each weekend at her home. She once declined a recording perfomance contract with a major Nashville corporation because she had three children to raise at the time.

Once the children were raised, Carolyn began singing again. She has been nominated for several awards after releasing six songs to radio. Her first release did not make the charts. The others all charted in the top fifty. Two gospel songs were in the top ten [#6 & #7]. Glory Train Express magazine listed Carolyn as the #5 most played overseas gospel artist for two months in a row! That included traditional, southern, bluegrass, and country styles of gospel music.

Carolyn's love for the Lord is apparent in her smile and her enthusiam when singing gospel music during our Christian programs. Carolyn has learned to trust the Lord completely for all her needs, both spiritually and worldly.

Dave Butcher spent several years as a young man living as if there were no God. After a spiritual experience at the age of twenty five, his life changed dramatically. His testimonies regard gambling, alcohol, lying, stealing, and cheating. He prays his messages help people learn to live better and get closer to God. He has found that the closer you get to God, the easier everything goes in life. His prayer is that you get to know that for yourself. Incidently, he rarely wears that cowboy hat!

Highlights include Carolyn co-hosting the Country Gospel Music Association's 2005 International Golden Heart Awards Show with once famous "Mercy" singer, James Marvell. It was during that show that Dave was elected "International Reciter of the Year" and awarded a Golden Heart. In August of 2006 Carolyn was elected "New Female Artist of the Year" by her peers at the CGMA Eastern USA convention. Dave has now been elected "Reciter of the Year" for three years in a row.

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Updated April 2008 _