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Still Carrying Still Becoming

Randy's Journey: Finding Purpose in Broken Places

From foster care and twin loss to faith-centered resilience, Randy's story offers honest hope and an uplifting roadmap for healing.

Randy Jones is an author, speaker, mentor, coach, community leader, and proud Milwaukee native whose life reflects the power of faith, perseverance, and purpose.

Raised alongside his twin brother, Ronnie, Randy spent much of his childhood moving through foster homes, carrying his belongings in black garbage bags and learning how to survive circumstances no child should have to face. Through instability, abuse, rejection, and loss, the bond between the brothers became their shelter. They were more than twins—they were witnesses to each other’s lives.

Sports eventually gave Randy the structure, discipline, and sense of belonging he had been searching for. What began with running developed into a lifelong commitment to coaching and serving young people. He went on to coach high school and collegiate track and field and cross-country, producing multiple All-American athletes and receiving state and regional coaching honors.

Randy also made history through his leadership with USA Track & Field–Wisconsin, becoming the first African American elected to serve as both vice president and president of the association. Under his leadership, the organization experienced significant growth and was recognized as the Most Improved Association in the nation.

Today, Randy continues his mission of helping others through his work as a Sports and Recreation Coordinator with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. He also serves as a commissioner on the Safety and Civic Commission for the City of Milwaukee, contributing his experience, leadership, and commitment to building a safer and stronger community.

His life and service are guided by the advice once given to him by a coach who helped change his life:

“You don’t have to repay me. When you get the opportunity, help someone else.”

Randy has carried those words into every gym, track, classroom, church, organization, and community he has served.

In Still Carrying, Still Becoming, Randy shares his deeply personal journey through foster care, grief, fatherhood, faith, healing, and life as a twinless twin following the loss of Ronnie. His story is not only about what he survived. It is about the man he continued becoming.

Randy believes that pain does not have to be wasted, grief does not cancel purpose, and even while we are still carrying, God is still helping us become.

Author Biography

The Author's Path

Rooted in Milwaukee, his work extends to churches, grief support groups, and community platforms, offering an authentic roadmap for those seeking beauty from broken places.

A Guiding Principle

We carry what we lost not as a heavy burden, but as a testament to what we are building.

This is the heart of Still Carrying Still Becoming: transforming grief into a powerful foundation for a life of purpose and profound connection.

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