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Music, testimonies minister to locals by Actual Love Group … – Imperial Valley Press

BRAWLEY – A day-long pageant graced the empty lot close to Barbara Price Junior Excessive Faculty right here on Friday, April 21, as the primary of what might develop into an annual occasion occurred.

The Actual Love Group Pageant introduced collectively 9 Christian hip-hop artists, 1 well-liked social media influencer (Mike Servin), 10 sponsors, and over 350 attendees in native nonprofit, in Christian-based homeless ministry Brawley Feed The Want’s first collaboration with born-again native “Joe Cross Hoods,” as a nondenominational Christian outreach to native youth.

Brawley Feed the Want CEO Rosalind Servin mentioned the occasion was extra of a “pageant” than only a Christian live performance due to the assorted out of doors actions, together with graffiti artwork, jumpers, KIDs Nook portray on canvas, video games, giveaways, free haircuts, meals distributors, and merchandise distributors and useful resource tables from completely different native and visiting Christian ministries.

“Brawley Feed the Want has been serving to the homeless for nearly 8 years now, and these days the Lord has been impressing upon me to proceed to try this however He has additionally charged me to succeed in out to the youth and households with kids,” Servin mentioned in an interview with IVP on Sunday.

Servin mentioned Brawley Feed the Want has been holding extra family-oriented outreach occasions in current months, however this collaboration with native Joe Cross Hoods, whose actual identify Jose Cruz Barrios, is the primary time Feed the Want has held an occasion of this measurement, she mentioned.

“What we had been attempting to do is search for alternatives to simply encourage and attain individuals … It wasn’t essentially to direct them to particular church buildings however to direct them to God,” Servin mentioned.

“Everybody has a necessity and wishes assist in completely different areas, and we simply wish to present that Jesus is the reply to life’s issues and to something that they is perhaps going by,” Servin mentioned, “and never simply kids however younger adults, adults and older individuals.”

Servin mentioned whereas the bulk was Christian hip-hop, completely different types of the style had been current in each English and Spanish.

“We tried to simply make it very easy going and enjoyable,” she mentioned.

“This was an occasion for those that did not know God however individuals who already know God too,” Barrios mentioned. “We do not actually have loads of these sorts of stuff happening within the Valley.”

Barrios, at the moment a Brawley resident who was born in Los Angeles and grew up Calexico, mentioned he has held two comparable occasions at two of the campuses of the church he attends, Christ Group Church.

For Barrios, the concept to entire the pageant was a approach to give again to his group and God after being caught in a harmful sample earlier on in his life.

“I have been sober 8 years from drug habit and I used to be homeless 8 years in the past,” Barrios mentioned. “I used to be on the market on the streets, speaking to myself, I used to be in a really dangerous, very darkish place. I used to be a type of guys you’d see on a bicycle with a backpack in all hours of the night time, drug addicted. I used to be a felony my entire life.”

Barrios mentioned as he was on the point of dropping his thoughts, it was the only real playlist he had with Christian music – music from a Christian rapper named “Sevin” – that helped him keep alive.

“I used to be already dropping my thoughts, speaking to myself, being attacked demonically, and that one playlist of Christian rap music was what stored me related to God,” he mentioned. “Ultimately I ended up going to a rehab, getting myself higher and getting nearer to God.”

“So identical to that music is what obtained me to depart the streets and getting away from all of the darkness that was on the market,” Barrios mentioned. “I felt that was one thing we’d like in our group due to all of the medication, homelessness, and gangs.”

“I used to promote medication however that is not me anymore; I don’t wish to poison the group like that anymore,” Barrios mentioned. “That is why we known as it ‘Actual Love,’ as a result of actual love comes from God, and that’s the rationale why now I wish to give again in a optimistic method. That music saved me, so I needed to provide the identical to the group.”

Barrios mentioned he and Feed the Want, with the assistance of their sponsors, had been capable of convey Christian artists from so far as Dallas, Texas and different components of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest to Brawley for the Group Pageant.

“The entire concept is to try to share that mild in these darkish instances, and provides the group an alternate of what the world presents and what the world provides in music,” Barrios mentioned. “All you hear within the music and TV is … I see it as filth. That is what sells so that is what they play; and all this influences our children.”

“Christian hip-hop is nothing however love, positivity and making a change in ourselves and our communities,” Barrios mentioned. “That music was my church as a result of on the time I did not go to church.”

“Lots of people obtained blessed with the music and testimonies (on Friday),” Barrios mentioned.

Servin mentioned, like Barrios, lots of the artists had been “good at that, developing and speaking to individuals,” sharing their private testimonies of how God has impacted their lives. She mentioned although it was scorching throughout the daytime, many individuals “caught it out” and continued doing their ministry all through the occasion.

“You simply noticed lots of people grouped up and praying all through the entire day and night,” Servin mentioned. “We had been beet learn within the quick however it was superior.”

Barrios additionally marveled at the truth that two individuals who gave their testimony spoke about how they had been at one time in native rival gangs, actually at one another’s throats attempting to kill one another, however they’ve since each come to God, and “it was stunning seeing them hugging and sharing their testimony collectively,” peacefully, as brothers anew in Christ.

“Folks had been blessed by this occasion,” Barrios agreed. “I do know I obtained blessed simply making this occur.”

Each Barrios and Servin hope to proceed these kind of free group pageant occasions sooner or later, they mentioned, with Barrios hoping to include different types of Christian music to succeed in out to extra Latinos, together with discipline employees, by Christian genres akin to corridos, banda, cerreño and mariachi.

“All that is to level individuals to God; we do share our testimonies however the primary factor is we all the time give God the glory for what He did for us,” Barrios mentioned.

“Folks had been blessed by this Actual Love occasion,” he mentioned.

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