Keep Walking by Feed the Children Founder Larry Jones
Keep Walking is the story of an extraordinary man’s journey from a idyllic, small town life of Bowling Green, Kentucky to the dire poverty of Haiti. Larry Jones, founder of Feed The Children, speaks of his call to the ministry, and the trip to Haiti that changed his life forever.
Larry Jones heard the call from God to pursue the ministry when he was seventeen. He eventually established a successful ministry that included televised programs. In 1979, Larry Jones went on a mission to Haiti. While he was there, a hungry little boy approached him, begging for enough spare pocket change to buy a bread roll. Larry Jones was struck by an epiphany. Here was a little boy begging for bread, yet in Larry Jones’s hometown of Oklahoma City, there was a massive wheat surplus. Larry Jones knew he couldn’t just give the boy a little money; he needed to do so much more for the world’s hungry children.
Larry Jones knew what he had to do. Using his ministry’s media resources, he spread the word about the starving children in Haiti. His primary message was pointing out the absurdity of allowing wheat to rot while people were starving only a few hundred miles away. After organizing his first food drop, Larry Jones transformed his evangelical ministry into a humanitarian relief organization Feed The Children.
Keep Walking is full of amazing anecdotes from Larry Jones’s career. Larry Jones is a veritable globetrotter of goodwill and charity. Keep Walking will take you to a water well in Nairobi, a baby and her mother on a roadside in Ethiopia, and the devastated city of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Larry Jones also talks about the evangelical scandals of the 1980s, which had a negative impact on donations to Feed The Children, the troubled American farms, surviving war zones, and FBI investigations. But through all these challenges, Larry Jones kept to his motto, “Keep Walking.”
Feed the Children is the world’s eighth largest charity, providing food, clothing, medicine, and other essentials to needy children and their families in 32 countries. Keep Walking is the remarkable story of how one man built this empire of love and charity.
To learn more about Feed The Children, visit their website at www.feedthechildren.org.