Our History, Our Legacy

Est. 1944

The ministry that Fred Jordan founded in 1944 was an outreach to alcoholics and homeless men on the Skid Row streets of Los Angeles.  It quickly expanded worldwide, and missionaries were trained and sent from the Mission to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Ghana, Hong Kong, Argentina, Liberia, and Mexico, helping to transform the spiritual and physical lives of some of the world’s most impoverished families and children. 

Fred, with his wife Willie, built churches, orphanages, schools, hospitals, and missions around the world.  Fred’s heart was touched by the plight of orphans in war-torn Japan following World War II.  Willie saw similar suffering and death among the children orphaned by the Korean War.  It was then that the Mission began focusing on meeting the needs of children and their families. 

Fred and Willie’s son Joe, and his wife Kris, have been leading Fred Jordan Missions since 2018.  Although the leadership has changed, Jesus’ vision and calling remain the same for FJM:  “To Declare and Demonstrate the Love of Jesus.” This is accomplished through preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and helping meet the needs of the lost, homeless, poor, needy, helpless, and hopeless on Skid Row and around the world.