Sharing Our Love of God and Music ...Southern Style!
GOSPEL TRAIL 2026
Saturday, August 15th
Noon to 7:00 pm
Painesville Baptist Church
1307 Riverside Drive, Painesville, OH 44077
Click on the "Gospel Trail" page for more information.
About the Gospel Friends
Gospel Friends Quartet is a group of friends who share a love of southern gospel music and a love for the Lord. They have traveled and shared their ministry throughout northeast Ohio and have made many new friends in Christ along the way.
Brad and Debbie Ashburn, Jim Rudesill, and Crystal Skelton make up the Gospel Friends Quartet. Who is Crystal, you ask? Gospel Friends is very excited to welcome new member, Crystal Skelton to the group!! Crystal has a deep love for southern gospel music, a passion for quartet singing, a true love for the Lord and a great smile!
Gospel Friends, once known as the Circle of Friends Quartet, formed back in 2002. Although some of the members have changed over the years, founding members Brad & Debbie still remain.
A major accomplishment of the Gospel Friends was the founding of the "Gospel Trail...Singin' on the Grounds." It was first established back in 2003 and continues to be alive and well today.
The Gospel Friends pray that through their music many will be uplifted, encouraged and find the joy and peace that faith brings.
"Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song! Sing unto the Lord all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of salvation from day to day." Psalm 96:1-2