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Pastors gang up on city gangs
Lancaster Newspapers – Lancaster,PA,USA
Phil Hernandez grew up as one of seven children. His father was worried about money. His mother was in “survival mode,” coping with her kids and her household.
The family lived in a poor neighborhood in New York City, where crime was common and good things happened rarely.
Those are the conditions in which gangs thrive. Hernandez wasn’t immune. He got involved in a gang.
Hernandez, the senior pastor of In the Light Ministries, understands how and why kids join gangs. There’s a way to keep that from happening, he said, but it takes commitment.
He and fellow pastors in Lancaster have come together to be part of a community-wide answer to the problem of gang violence — an answer that will begin to take shape at a Saturday, May 2, fundraising walk sponsored by the United Ministerium called “Stop the Madness.”
This podcast discusses the powerful influence of music in the thug culture. Dr. Levon Davis a former youth prison inmate and gangster from South-Central L.A., who was incarcerated for murder, talks about the influence music played in his life and crime.
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From Thugexposed.com Rayford Johnson discusses the dangerous pitfalls that many students are falling victim to and wisdom to avoid them. Our guests are Julian & Justin Love, African American Honor Students at a black historic southern college.
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As part of what we’re doing we’re going to focus on some gang ministries and those involved with them. Here’s our first: Dr Levon Davis
A little over 14 years ago, Dr. Levon Davis was surrounded by a very different set of circumstances. He was sitting in a prison cell at the California Youth Authority in Los Angeles, California. He had been given a life sentence and was waiting for extradition papers from Florida as he was confronted with drug trafficking charges and the death penalty. Dr. Davis had participated in a double homicide during a drug deal gone bad, and had arranged what was to be his most electrifying and heart stopping date with an electric chair.
“You don’t wake up and just say I’m going to kill somebody. Events have happened in your life, that has brought you into this mentality,” says Davis. “It takes a few friends dying to lose feeling. A couple times of that, and you have no feelings about taking another person’s life. You don’t feel sorry, and you have no remorse,” explained Davis. “Money became my god, and the sale of drugs became my life. This type of lifestyle led to all types of crime, sin, and every possible ungodly thing that you could think of. People think that drug dealing is a glamorous life, but they don’t see the background of it; the stress; the callousness; it has no value.”
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This from Donnie Sebreros over at gangtalkchannel.com:
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