Jim Hooker

Jim Hooker became a Christian in 1980. While doing some pastoral work in the church in the mid eighties, he began to be drawn to help those caught in the self perpetuating cycle of poverty. In 1986 Jim was led to start “Turnaround Ministries” (see PDF brochure) in the inner-city of Los Angles. Turnaround Ministries was a holistic work to help single parents on welfare become employable and break free of the addictive (slavelike) government welfare system.

In the latter part of 2005 Jim was given a clear and specific revelation that he was being called to help hurting and abused children of disintegrated families domestically by creating godly orphanages, and to help the poor internationally---in developing nations with an emphases on children at risk. A work began in the Philippines in 2006.