The group that I run with Mike Williams, Feed Your Faith, is once again working with Kirk Cameron and Warren Barfield of the hit movie FIREPROOF. We’ll be with them this weekend in Kentucky. Rich Copley of the Lexington Herald-Leader did a great story about our event.
Former child star Kirk Cameron to speak at Feed Your Faith Conference
By Rich Copley, Lexington Herald-Leader
Kirk Cameron says people don’t come up to him wanting to talk about his TV show Growing Pains.
That seems a tad surprising, considering even, say, a child star as famous in adulthood as Ron Howard says he still has people coming up to him to talk about his days playing Opie on The Andy Griffith Show.
Kirk Cameron at a Feed Your Faith Conference
But when Cameron goes out to meet the public these days, it is often closely related to his latest film work, Fireproof.
The 2008 movie was the most recent production by Sherwood Pictures, based at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. Cameron, 39, played a firefighter whose seven-year marriage is fizzling until he makes a commitment to Christianity.
It’s the latest faith-based film for Cameron, who also starred in the Left Behind series of films, based on the apocalyptic novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In addition to being the top independent film of 2008, Fireproof launched a hit book, The Love Dare, and several events. Those include a series of conferences by Cameron and Christian music star Warren Barfield, whose Love Is Not a Fight was the movie’s theme song.
Cameron and Barfield’s “Love Worth Fighting For” event comes to Lexington on March 6 for two sessions at Immanuel Baptist Church. It’s the first tour stop of the event that was started by Knoxville-based Feed Your Faith.
“Someone at Feed Your Faith had this great idea about putting together a concert where Warren would be singing songs about marriage and sharing some personal stories, and he’s got some great ones — they’re funny and inspiring,” Cameron says. “They combined that with a couple messages I had been giving on how to rescue a failing marriage, how to fireproof your marriage. And we put that together and we had a wonderful result.”
Barfield says, “My goal is to see some family trees change, some marriages last that were going to break up, some children born who maybe never would have been conceived because their parents split up.”
