Shame the Wise
Keith Green and Melody Green
In 1975, the Greens began an outreach program in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley. Purchasing the home next door to their own and renting an additional five in the same neighborhood, Keith and Melody provided housing and care for prostitutes, drug addicts, and the homeless; much to the consternation of their more conservative neighbors. In 1977, this outreach was officially named Last Days Ministries.
Keith Green died on July 28, 1982, when the Cessna 414 leased by Last Days Ministries crashed after takeoff from the private airstrip located on the LDM property. The small two-engine plane was carrying eleven passengers and the pilot, Don Burmeister, for an aerial tour of the LDM property and the surrounding area. Green and two of his children, three year old Josiah, and two year old Bethany, were on board the plane, along with visiting missionaries John and Dede Smalley and their six children. All aboard the seven-seat aircraft were killed.
Melody continued in Jesus even though her husband and two of her children had died. She has since been powerfully speaking out against abortion and has written a biography on Keith Green called "No Compromise".
To learn more about Keith and Melody Green please visit www.lastdaysministries.org
