STEVEN MALCOLM //
HIP-HOP IN WORSHIP!
by Doug Doppler
Live Photos Courtesy of NAMM
• 75% of our community lives at or below
Steven Malcolm has engaged millions of people [WM] Steven, great to connect again! I loved with his charismatic smile and unique brand your set supporting Matt Redman at the 10 th of worship. But the real story behind Steven’s Annual NAMM Night of Worship. It’s always • 40% of kids do not read at basic reading level
success is the fact that his voice is being used exciting to see an artist do their thing on the • 40 different gangs city wide as of 2010
to reach an at-risk generation for Jesus. While same day their album drops. Before we dig • 50% of students will not graduate from high
many of our readers might not listen to Hip-hop deeper into The Second City, I’d like to frame on the way to church, we celebrate the way that the conversation with a bit of your background, Steven is using this genre to spread the gospel sound good?
poverty level
school
• Countless number of kids under the age
of 10 walk to our church services and
in a way to speak into the lives of young men
programming with no parental supervision
[Steven Malcolm] Sounds good, man. • 50% of the homes are without fathers
[WM] Your home church is The Edge Urban That sounds a lot like your story. Can you tell
Even if you’re not a fan of Hip-hop, we Fellowship in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The us about that?
encourage you to read this story as it is a home page on the church’s web site does a powerful testimony of what Jesus does when great job of spelling out the mission…
and women who like Steven have spent much
of their lives without a father in their home.
[Steven] Yeah man, absolutely. It’s the
He gets in the mix. Chances are that when EVANGELISM: Bring Em In community
you to hear the heart behind the first Christian DISCIPLESHIP: Sit Em Down environment that I was raised in, this culture of
Hip-hop artist,to grace our pages you’ll think GROWTH: Raise Em Up living for self, not truly knowing your Creator. So,
EMPOWERMENT: Send Em Out me coming up, I didn’t grow up in the church, I
of someone who could benefit from hearing
Steven’s music.
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As you scroll further you come across some was coming up in the Hip-hop culture. My mom
pretty heartbreaking statistics… was an alcoholic, my dad got busted for drugs
February 2019
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