HIP HOP ARTIST DECLARING PEACE IN JESUS NAME

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with our special guest, greg H.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Jackson.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
He is the founder and president of Heal Charlotte and
also a gospel hip hop artist, and he is our
special guest today here on the Kim Jacobs Show, as
he is determined to declare peace in the name of
Jesus throughout the city of Charlotte and around the world
because you all will be exposed to him and his

(01:42):
message today. So welcome. I see you backstage, Gregory H.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Jackson. I'm gonna put you in. Is that okay?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
All right? All right? I'm pulling you in.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
How are you hey? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I know you were like speed racist.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
You know how Charlotte traffic can be sometimes.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh my goodness, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, so I almost almost got caught in almost got caught,
But the good Lord parted, parted the highways for me.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Good. I'm so glad to have you here with us
today and also glad glad to have you all here
in the studio audience.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I wanted to I want to be able to just
give people a chance to learn about you, your backstory,
who you are, I had the pleasure of meeting you
at a car wash, right, and you had your music blast,
and I was like, At first, I was like some people, right,
that's what I was thinking, right, But then I tuned

(02:43):
in and I listened, and I was like, wait a minute,
that man's message is dope exciting. And I leaned in
and I was hearing the message and I love it.
I was like, oh, I gotta give him a card.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was so good. And you know, always evangelizing through
the music, right, and always making sure that if I
have the opportunity to blast some gospel, blast some Christian
hip hop, I'm gonna play it as loud as I
can because you never know who you're gonna meet. You
never know where there's a brother and sister in Christ
that and sometimes that's all they need to hear to

(03:17):
be able to, you know, connect with each other. So
I'm always evangelizing. I feel like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
So you're not a person that turns it on and
turn it off depending upon what mode you're in.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
You know, I can't say that I can turn it off.
I wish I could, you know, but the evangelist is
me is just alive. And you know, I was like that.
In my previous life in the streets, you know, I
was alive and charismatic and you know, advertising the secular
world the same way. So, you know, just being saved,

(03:52):
I wanted to make sure I keep the same energy,
you know, And that's that's why I think the evangelism
just doesn't turn on all.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I love it. I love it, and I do want
to make sure I give a formal introduction that that
you are formerly here. So you are a nationally recognized
community leader, nonprofit founder, speaker artist whose mission is to
build bridges between activism, faith, and sustainable solutions for families

(04:22):
that are in crisis. And we're going to talk more
about some of the things that's even in your bio,
but I want to give you the chance to really
talk through some of those things. So with you, with you,
I really wanted to find out what inspired you to
merge gospel and hip hop together, because it's like you're

(04:45):
merging gospel and preaching and teaching and healing and delivering
and setting free, but then you're also merging hip.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Hop with it. What made you do that? Yeah, So honestly,
you can blame that on the kids. That was a
part of my after school program, the kids that are
part of my in school programming at Whitewater Middle School.
You know, you spend three hours with children, two hours
with children. And I was previously rapping before secularly, you know,

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and I stopped rapping to do my organization. Honestly, I
had an album that I was working on called The
Belly of Obese and this was about in twenty fifteen,
and I never came out with the music. The protests happened,
and I stopped rapping to do this service, right, and

(05:37):
the Lord set me down, shut me up, and said,
you're gonna you know, you're gonna serve. And through that service,
I started to run into young kids that had they
leave me and put these headphones in, and I knew
what they were listening to. And I started to do
the math in my head. If you have three hours

(05:58):
to coach greg a hours in El Chopper or whoever
the new artist is, you ain't gonna listen. I'm probably
getting drowned out right. I'm probably getting drowned out right.
So I just I really started to make music to
enhance the curriculum and so kids can have something to

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listen to that were positive and not just me. I
also you know, made a playlist that was gospel hip
hop for the for the young people to get in
tune with, and it was it's a genre that most
of them really didn't know existed too much outside of
people like Lacree, right, they what's going on. And honestly,

(06:39):
it's been able to help me with my evangelizing and
the parents, you know, they trust me a lot more
because of that. So yeah, blame it on the kids.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Blame it on the kids because you had that dedicated
time with them three hours at a time that you
knew that you could make some kind of impact in
their lives. Because your music is epic, by the way,
So it's not like you.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Got dropped out. It's incredible what I'm here so much,
Thank you so much. It's you know, I would bring
new songs to the school and you know, tell the
kids to listen to them, tell me what you think
and what you dance it is? Would you not? And
they started to you know, I would perform in a
classroom while they're list just to calm them down when
they first get in, and uh, they would really start

(07:24):
to listen. And I'm really big on the horizontal part
of the cross making sure that we have connectivity with
each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. So me
being able to share my testimony through my music is
a is a great way for me to be relatable
for these young kids that you know, they they seeing
is believing for them, you know. And if they know

(07:46):
that you've been through something, some adversity and you can
make it out, uh, they kind of become your sponges
after a while. And I'm in middle schools. Right in
middle schools is the time where it's self identity crisis,
you know, and uh, you know, a low, a lack
of self efficacy. All of these things happen in middle

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school and I really want to help them with integrity, passion, purpose, legacy,
and those are the things that I talk about in
my music. Build your integrity up. Find your passions after
you build your integrity right, because if you have integrity,
you'll treat your passions with care. Right. And then when
you find your passions, one of those passions or two
of them are going to lead you into your divine purpose.

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And your purpose will help you change legacy or add
to a legacy that's bigger than you. And I was
able to go ahead and do that through the music,
and it's been beneficial for a lot of the kids,
and secretly it's been it's been beneficial for me because
those same lyrics help help me stay accountable, you know,

(08:52):
So even even even preaching to them, I'm preaching to myself.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
So the actual lyrics, you feel like you're becoming a
better version of you because of what you're putting out
there in the atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, well, you know you sometimes you know, you have
to remind yourself about what is God, God has done
in your life right, and you have to keep giving
yourself that remembrance of if, if he did it before,
he can do it again. And sometimes when we're when
we're ap preaching or when we're speaking to another person,
we end up talking to ourselves because we need that

(09:24):
reminder just like they need that reminder. So it's been
it's been a building of hope for me. Also as
I listened to it, it's the first time that I
made music that I could listen to with my kids,
you know, going to school and dropping them off, and
they know my lyrics. So it's a different joy that

(09:45):
I got that I really didn't expect. I had no
expectations of it, and it's been so fruitful for me
personally too. That's so good.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
When I was I was laughing earlier because I'm thinking
of children, middle age, middle school children. They brutally honest, right,
so they don't have filters as far as at least
when my children were that age, I was like, oh,
I didn't need you to be that transparent with me, right,
But think about that, with you coming in and breaking
the ice and doing your dances and doing the rap.

(10:17):
Were there ever times that they were like, m do
not do that, mister Greg, under any circumstance with that
the case.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, you know, sometimes we find ourselves trying to be
you know, a little too worldly, right, and you might
you might try to say slang that's up the date
in modern you know, they coach Greg, Nah, I don't
say that. Don't don't say that. We like it when
you sound like a coach, you know, just sound sound

(10:44):
like the coach. Sound like we don't want you to
sound like us, right, And so I would I would
say little things, little little words that I know that
they have, and they'll be like, nah, don't don't do that,
don't do that. We like it when you sound grown.
You know, you know what I really appreciate.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I appreciate the young people saying that I want you
to be the elder. I want you to be the
person of authority and still kind of relate to us.
But don't try to be us because you look in
sideways when you're trying to do too much. You're doing
too much.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
You know, they're telling me scripture as they're saying it, right,
they're telling don't don't conform to us. You know, don't
don't conform to us. You know, we're conforming to what
you're doing, right, And that's and that's the goal of
the program is for them to have a transformation, right,
being able to know who God is. And shout out
to the school for really allowing me to be able

(11:40):
to do that. Yeah, with school, did you go did
you be dealing with white Water Middle School? White white
Water Middle School?

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Shout out to you for your allowing some creativity. And
I'm sure it's helped so many young people on their
journey in a creative, out of the box way. And
we should we should celebrate schools that's willing to think
of creative ways to reach our youth. Yeah, I'm really
proud of that.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
They really give me some freedom to be able to,
you know, talk about my faith and my testimony, not
selling religion to none of these children, but making sure
that they have hope and faith right as they're going
through these trials and these tribulations and this adversity. And
and we're just at a point in time right now
in the world where faith and hope is so much needed,

(12:32):
right and there's nothing that, uh that that will replace that. Right.
You could give them all the curriculum and education and
skills that you can possibly give them, but when they
face these trials and tribulations and these hard times, it's
the faith and the hope that that is really going
to get them through those times. And it's it's just
great to be around the school that understands that and

(12:55):
and they let me be me authentically and it's a yeah,
pray praise God for that.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
So your music, it carries like very powerful themes and
usually it relates to some level of peace and transformation.
How do you actually hear from God from your perspective
to be able to know what types of lyrics to
put pen to paper and then articulated through songs.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, So, you know, it's very it's very different than
making secular music.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Right.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
When I was making secular music, you you know, go
in the studio, have a smoke, have with your friends
and go rap, right, and and the content or the
context of the content doesn't doesn't it doesn't matter too much, right, right.
But with with this, it's a lot of fasting, it's

(13:49):
a lot of praying. It's it's a lot of paying
attention to the people that I serve and what they're
going through, to knowing what they know what to talk
about in the world world right now, Uh be paying
attention to politics also and knowing how to address that,
and and then also being Bible led first, you know,

(14:12):
making sure that we're Bible studying and everything is attached
to the world. And it's not just you know, my
own ideology and my own thoughts that are coming on
these these on these on these songs. You know, it's
it's real experiences, and it's real adversity and and it's
and it's me going through something and getting to the
other side of that thing before I rap about it, right,

(14:36):
not just rapping about the testimony. And there's no victory
attached to it. Right, So that's that's that's probably the
biggest thing, is making sure there's victory that's.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Good victory for you personally so that you can then
share it in your song as more as an overcomer. Yeah,
it's not just as a person that's just laying some
lyrics or like people say, keeping one hundred or whatever
the terminology is, I definitely can't. I cannot relate to
or I cannot keep it. Somebody put something out and

(15:08):
I had to literally go google it. I was like,
and I don't even know. I didn't even know what
it meant at all, Like and I wasn't joking. I
was in my own private time. So I just googled what.
I was like, what that's what that means? I would
be what if I was saying that and didn't even
know that that's what it meant, Because there are some
things I just did not know that that actually means.

(15:29):
What it means that to my children, tell me, like
my ever, say that again, this is what that means.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
I was like, so now you know what I was
going through at the school. Okay, That's what I was
going through, saying things, saying saying certain words and using
them out of context to where it's embarrassing to the kids. Now.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
The kids are like, Coach, no, just stay here of that.
We know what you mean, we know what you know.
We'll make it modern, We'll make it hit right right
right now.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Is there like a song that kind of really speaks
more to your testimony from your perspective, because you've written
quite a few songs and produced a lot of songs.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Yeah, So there's a song called through it All, Through
It All, Lord, you've been so good.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Of course I didn't download that one. I downloaded two
other ones. I did nothing to ask you never.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
But Through It All is a song that's a testimony
about my life. And then I have another song called
God Using Me, and it's a song with a secular rapper.
His name is Luke. He's from Betty's Ford and he
signed to Dreamville J Cole's record label. But this song
was really a testimony of our friendship. He's really been

(16:40):
on a spiritual journey and he's finding God every day.
And we've been doing uh this, this, these Bible studies.
We've just been searching together and I've been just joining
him in his search and in that search over these
last two years. I was recording a song and he said,

(17:00):
I think I got something. I think I got something,
and he jumped on that song God using me, so
God using me? And through it all or two songs
that can you know, get me weeping in my prayer closet.
I'm just going through the past.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Oh man. And you know what really touched my heart
a lot. I was listening to a whole watch, but
I was I heard that one legacy, you know, like
this speaks to so many people that are parents anyway.
For me, that was important when I when I watched
that video and I watched and heard the song, I

(17:36):
was like, oh, legacy, we should all be striving to
build legacy. What's your thoughts on that?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
So I come from a rough background, right, my mom
Christian woman. You know, I tell everybody I thought my
mom was dating Jesus right, like she you know she
would be Jesus is everywhere with my mom right. And
my dad well, my grandfather was Muslim. Uh, my dad

(18:06):
was in my life, but not in my life. And
met my dad when really met him when I was
a teenager and moved with him and live with him
and watched him hustle and watched watched him make make
it by any means possible, all right. And I always
just wanted to change the legacy of my last name,

(18:27):
you know, I've always wanted to do that. In New York.
I had to move to Charlotte, North Carolina, because I
couldn't change the legacy. You know. Uh, the cops knew
me for selling drugs. They knew my dad was selling drugs.
I did a year on Rikers Island. My dad did
ten years in Butner County, right, So it was there

(18:49):
was a legacy on my name to where I couldn't
change and have a transformation there or transition into a
different type of career. And my mother was in Charlotte
at the time, and she told me to come on down.
And I just wanted to dedicate myself to that one
eight you know, and being able to change that one
hundred and eighty degrees of doing that turnaround. And I

(19:12):
wanted my kids to have something that they can attach
themselves to. And I tell kids, if if you can't
attach yourself to the legacy of Christ, find something that
you can attach yourself to. Find, find a legacy that
you can change. You're gonna be the first to do
something in your family. You're gonna be the first to
do something. You're gonna be the first child to do

(19:33):
something for your parents. You're gonna be the first grandchild
to do something for your grandparents. Right, and and find that,
find that legacy. And for me, my legacy was attached,
you know, attaching myself to Christ. Right and uh, the
legacy that doesn't die, you know, the legacy that continues
on for over two thousand years. Right, that legacy is

(19:57):
something that I want to be a part of. And
I want to be able to help uplift and amplify
and exalt. And I think that that legacy is so
important for people, you know, to be able to I
tell the kids, it's not about what they're gonna say
when you're living. It's about what they're gonna say about
you when you're gone, Right, What are they gonna say

(20:19):
about you? And not even when you're gone in life? Right? Right?
What are they gonna say about you when they leave?
When you leave this middle school, what are they gonna say?
That's your legacy? What are they gonna say about you
when you leave your neighborhood? That's your legacy? What are
they gonna say about you when you leave college, that's
your legacy, right and and so we don't need to

(20:40):
think about legacy as such of a life and death thing, right, right,
But there's also a temporal thing to legacy also to
everything that you touch. You're leaving a legacy and when
what do you want to leave behind? Honestly, everybody that
you get in touch with should have a positive, hopeful
thing to say about out you man, like man, that

(21:03):
person was amazing, Pastor Kim when I met her, her spirit,
her energy, her passion, it really it really came on me.
And it was contagious, you know, that legacy. So I
think if all of us are striving to have a
positive legacy that we leave, that's that's outside of you.
Doesn't to do with yourself, you know, not self preservation, right,

(21:28):
just more of a community legacy. And and uh, you know,
I like I like seeing the kids trying to think about,
you know what, what what will they leave behind? You
know when we were when I was kids, we used
to do these time capsules and put them to the ground.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
And you know, at my age, I'm older than you,
but I'm forty two, so I'm fifty five, and so
I knew you were kind of younger.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, you know, I'm eighty eighty three the seventies.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, so you did time capsules and we did time capsules,
and you know you're leaving something behind, right for somebody
else to dig up and find and say wow.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Right, And I just love legacy. And I love the
legacy of Christ. I love I just I love the
longevity and the immortalness of of God. Right, and now
that's the legacy that I want all of these young
people to attach themselves to.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
We're gonna We're gonna play. We're gonna play legacy. Can
we play legacy?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Let's play legacy.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
This is back.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Build your integrity, find your passions, walking to your purpose, and.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Attach yourself to a legacy that's bigger than you.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
Let's go legacy.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
Legacy, Legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, integrity, passion, purpose, legacy, integrity.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Passion, purpose, legacy. Up in the morning, I'm praising the Lord.
Know what they said when you was born, but what
they gonna say when you was called? Hey, hey, I'm
in the gym study my form made it today? President
the Lord not can know le open yours. Up in
the morn, I'm praising the Lord. Know what they said

(23:27):
when you was born, but what they gonna say when
you was gone. Hey, Hey, I'm in the gym study
my fall made it today. Prison the Lord not got over.

Speaker 10 (23:36):
Let's open up fielding up my integrity. Devil can't get
next to me.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Want to know what success to me? Listen enough and
go to recipe work until it's nothing left to me.
That's why God keep blessing me. Spread the gods what
they said to me at the whole life really do
to me. Huh.

Speaker 9 (23:52):
Up in the morning, I'm praising the Lord. Know what
they said when you was born, but what they gonna
say when you was gone. Hey, up in the gym
studying my form made it today, President, Lord.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
Knocking over.

Speaker 8 (24:05):
Lega See legacy legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, legacy, techritysh.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
Purpose lega techrity, passion, purpose stuck, Keep.

Speaker 10 (24:18):
Building your integrity, find on your passions, walk right into
your purpose like you regumus some actions.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
Thank the Lord that I'm tapped in change the legacy
of Jackson.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I'm a different guy from way back there, the first
out in the last thing.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
God up in the morn.

Speaker 9 (24:34):
I'm praising the Lord. Know what they said when you
was old, but what they gonna say when you was gone,
Hey hey, I'm in the gym study. My form made
it today. Prisoner Lord knocking on been like open up
doors up in the morn. I'm praising the Lord. Know
what they said where he was all, but where they
go say when you was called, Hey hey, I'm in

(24:54):
the gym study.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
My form made it today. Prisoner Lord knocking over been
like open up doors.

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Legacy Legacy, Legacy, Legacy, Legacy, Legacy, Legacy, Legacy, Let's Techrity,
Passion Purpose.

Speaker 7 (25:08):
Ley Legacy, Legacy Legacy.

Speaker 10 (25:11):
Legacy, Let's Techrity, Passion, Purpose Legacy, Techerty, Passion, Purpose Legacy.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh yes, let's go.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
Yeah you have like legacy legacy, yayyy Legacy Licolcy.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Shout out to my kids. My daughter's my oldest daughter.
She's in New York. She goes to Fordham University. But
my two youngest they were in that video and absolutely
yeah they go Jayala right there, she's in New York.
Gianna is my fourteen year old and then now is nine.
Those that's my heart's right there. I absolutely love them
and that's what I do everything for after Christ. So uh,

(26:07):
these kids has just loved to see them. They picked
up chess. They love playing chess. And then shout out
to my bro who's in that video Anthony Murrow. Okay,
he's a former NBA player. He's from West Boulevard in Charlotte.
When you talk about legacy, he went to Charlotte, Latin man,

(26:30):
he has legacy out here in this city. And that's
my brother. And it was nobody else that I would
I would want to have in that video with me.
A lot of the kids that I work with look
up to him. So shout out to my bro.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
A mom, a mom, shout out to you. All right, listen,
this is you know. I'm really glad you had your children,
some of them in the video. And then, like you said,
you have somebody that is trying to not trying because
trying means you can or not? Right? What you don't.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
You said, amo?

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Is that name?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Anthony Morrow? Shout out. He also has his old charity
called Amold Charities also beautiful.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
So you said you can have him come and be
a guest under Kim Jacob Show if you ever want to.
Absolutely good news to other people. Listen, you founded heals Charlotte.
What made you even come up with that particular name?
Heals Charlotte? Because that's that right there is prophetic.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
We need heal the nation. That's what I'm really like.
I GIF, look, come on now, there heal this globe,
heal I think the next one is heal the land.
You know for real, it's I can't take credit for
that name. Let me see how do I how do
I say this? It was me and my friends, we

(27:48):
were finished protesting and keep them on. Scott in twenty
sixteen lost his life right unarmed, shot down by police officers.
And in twenty sixteen there was a plethora of African
Americans who were losing their lives twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen,
from the from the Michael Browns to the Trayvon Martins

(28:10):
to the Sandra Blanze, which is happening. And I think
when it hit here, everybody was was that was like
the need the last the last needle, right, that was
the last straw right right. And I found myself out
there protesting and the Lord, I don't know, the Lord
has his own plan, right. I didn't. I didn't go

(28:34):
there to be seen on television. My resume previously did
not speak to me being an activist at all. Right,
so you don't have you don't have a clue what
the plan is that God has for you. No, no, no,
I had no business being out there resume wise, Right,

(28:54):
I was. I ended up leading a protest, right, and
we let a protest all the way down to the
police department. And during that happening, I had an interaction
with the officer's names, uh, Mike Copania, he's now retired,
and we we we had a dispute, a debate, right,

(29:15):
an exchange of words, very passionately. Right. I wasn't Christian
at the time, so you know has said choice words
and uh and and I was, you know, advocating for
us as African Americans in this country, especially as young men,
letting them know who we are and whose we are
and and what I am and what I'm not right, And.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
What I what I noticed was I feel like my
car's going off. Right, I'm sorry, but what I noticed was.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
What I noticed was in that moment, you you can't
have peace, right, It's not okay to have this peace
in this agreement in the middle of this be right,
everybody wants you to be separated and divided and live
in that separation and live in that division. Well, when
I was advocating for us and saying, hey, we are

(30:11):
educated black men, we got I went to culinary school,
and my father and he looked at me and he said,
you know, I agree. I'm I'm a dad. And he's
a Caucasian man and he said, he said, I feel
the same way as you. You know, And he said,

(30:31):
when I go home, I take this back off. You know,
it doesn't come with me. And he put his hand
out for a handshake, and he offered to meet with
me after the protests. And I shook his hand and
I said, you know, I'm gonna meet with you. I'm serious.
I'm serious about what I'm doing. I really want to

(30:51):
do this, and.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
He uh.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
He met with me the next day, and we continued
to meet with each other. And as we as I
started to meet, I started talking with my friends and like,
we need healing and this is too much division and
this is wrong. And I'm talking to my friend. He's
a graphic designer. He's coming up with a logo. He's

(31:18):
coming up with a logo. And as he's listening to
me talk. He hears healing a bunch of times, so
he puts heal at this heart, right, And I said,
I told him, I said, Charlotte, Charlotte needs surgery and
needs surgery. It keeps putting band aids over gun wounds

(31:39):
of oppression and racism and poverty. And and he's he's
now he's putting a band aid on the heart. And
now he's putting Charlotte there. And as we're talking, he's
designing this logo. And we never meant for the logo
to be for a nonprofit. We just the logo was
for a night of hip hop for me and my

(32:01):
friends to be able to go and wrap in fundraise, right,
so we can be able to do community events. That
was it. That was all it was for. And when
we did the Night of hip Hop, so many people
were looking at the logo and they were like, what
is that. What's the Hill Charlotte thing? And we were like,

(32:22):
it's what we think is needed. And then that logo
turned into a nonprofit.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh my gosh, Okay, it's like you nobody can predict
that something that God is just putting as far as
somebody connecting with you on a path. Yes, police officer,
you giving each other the business. Y'all are going back
and forth. It could have taken any kind of turn.
It did not have to end with y'all meeting the

(32:49):
next day for coffee or for brainstorm.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
No, not at all. No.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
So there are still some positive outcomes between law enforcement
and African Americans too, because a lot of times people
are only seeing, well, some of the stuff that's happened
is not an either or that has happened too.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
So it's not like I cannot take it when somebody
act like that. That what we saw on TV.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
We can see the person, the breath being yanked out
of the purse, out of George Floyd's body, period. So
to have this outcome is actually nothing but the favor
of God, in my.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Opinion, all favor of God. Right and to this day,
to this day, it's been nine years. I've been training
police officers since then.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
A look at God.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I've been training police officers since then. At first, we
started off doing protest re enactment training because I didn't
believe that the officers were ready for that type of interaction.
And it's it's just been a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful chapter
in My Life of where I got baptized in the

(33:58):
midst of all of this activism and toy and eighteen,
I got baptized, And I tell everybody my activism turned
into pacifism, right and and the Lord has allowed me
to live in this gray area of peace and harmony
and unity and in the midst of dispute when things

(34:19):
might look ugly sometimes in my community as an African American,
don't agree with some of the things that I'm doing,
But there has to be a middle ground. There has
to be a bridge. And I believe that our Lord
was the biggest example of being a master builder and
a bridge builder. And that's what I think. You know,
us as activists, we have to be able to emulate.

(34:40):
You can't be so pro black that you become anti Christ.
That's a safe Can you please say that one more time?
You can't be so pro black that you are anti Christ.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
I please specify what you mean by that, because I
don't want to interpret with your meaning. I know what
you mean, but I want to hear you see it.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
You can't so so in a in a biblical sense,
you can't become so much endowed in your flesh in
the midst of these times, in the midst of your feelings,
in the midst of your your emotions, and these times
that we go through and protest, that you forget about
the love of God, that you forget about the peace,
the love, the forbearance, the joy that comes with the

(35:24):
fruits of your spirit. Right, And you can't serve two masters.
You can't serve two masters. You have to pick a
side on what you're going to represent in this world.
That does not mean that you're punk. It does not
mean that you're soft. It does not mean that you're
gonna let isms happen. It does not mean that you're
gonna let racists live.

Speaker 11 (35:43):
But you also have a fine line on how you
walk right and there, and there is no compromising my faith.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
There's no compromising that I want to go to heaven.
That's right, right, I want to go to heaven at
the end of the day. And the last thing I
want Jesus to say is, get away from me. I
didn't know you in them time of protests. Get away
from me. I didn't know you in your times of rioting.
Get away from me. I didn't know you in those
times when a racist was talking to you. And you

(36:15):
were a racist, right back, get away from me. I
didn't know. You didn't show them the love of Christ. Right.
And it doesn't mean that you get walked on because
we have a lamb and a lion, But it means
that there's a self control to you. There's a self
control to you that you always are going to recognize.
I have to mirror my God to the best of

(36:38):
my ability. So it's hard to be able to walk
in and out of police departments and talk to chiefs
of police and implement training right now, my educational workshops
and with the new recruits of CMPD and I take
them to the International Civil Rights Museum before they graduated, right,

(36:59):
and I give them a historical lesson about the black
experience of being policed in America. Right. And we go
through the International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro and we
have a constructive day of conversations. So I feel like
I'm doing my people with justice, but I'm also showing
them that there's a way to do this right. There's

(37:20):
a way to partner, there's a way to live in
humanity together. Right. And it's just been it's been a
joy to watch, Honestly, it's been a joy to watch,
and I invite people to join me into this world
because it's a beautiful place to sit in where you
don't have to sit in anger all the time. You
get to see, you get to see the goodness of
the Lord. You're making me so happy over here. I

(37:45):
feel like I'm in church.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
I literally feel like and I love going to church,
so I feel like I'm at a church service just
here and you speak even though I'm interviewing you. It
is just a wonderful, uplifting experience. And for those of
you that are just tuning in, everybody. We are talking
today with Greg H. Jackson. He's the founder and president
of Heals Charlotte, and it really can be healed the land,

(38:07):
heal the nation because everything he's talking about is universal
across the land. We need this level of healing to
take place. And he's also a gospel hip hop artist
and declaring peace. He's declaring piece. That's his message that
he's declaring peace around the world. And I wanted to
I was going to ask you a question about something. Oh,

(38:31):
you already told me what sparked you to actually start
that work? Which one of the things, Yeah, I think, yes,
that you already you've talked about that. But the thing
that's happening across the Charlotte community, it's really like, uh,
it's groundbreaking, especially with like turning hotels into transitional housing.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I was trying to look through some of the stuff
that you're doing.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I better put these glasses on because I'm gonna say
something altogether wrong.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
But turning hotels into transitional housing.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
What challenges did you face and how did you feel
your faith actually was that undergirding power for you during
these times that you've done these out of the box things.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
So this is all the Lord. I You know, I
went to culinary school. I'm a chef. I'm a chef.
You know, I'm a chef at heart. I'm not a
I wasn't a developer. I didn't go to.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
School for.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
You know, education, literacy, psychology. You know, I didn't go
to school for these things. Right, I was up. I
think the Lord woke me up at six thirty in
the morning for like thirty days straight, and I'm in
my prayer closet. One of the kids that were in

(39:57):
my program, I was dropping her off at home one
day and she was she stayed in the hotel and
she was one of the brightest kids that I had. Hey, Angie, Hi,
shout out to you, Angie. She's one of the brightest.
And you know she has suffer such a soft spirit

(40:20):
and such a such a heart for God. And I
dropped her off at this hotel on eighty five and
Sugar Cree and it broke my heart. It broke my heart.
It was needles outside, you know, prostitution outside. She lived
right down the block from a plasma center where it

(40:41):
was nothing but drug addicts at And I just went
back home and I just I didn't know anything about
McKenny veno, you know, the homeless population, and I just
I was just begging the Lord, you know, really just
for her. And I just I couldn't believe that was
possible that there was someone living in a hotel. And

(41:06):
you know, I came up my closet thirty days later
and Jesus was like, you're gonna get a hotel And
I was like, you're crazy, I don't. I don't have
This is how you're talking to Jesus.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
You're like, Lord, Dan, you know you don't lost your man,
right not talking to me.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
I don't have no money. First of all, You're like,
I'm struggling with an apartment. You're talking about getting a hotel. What,
No Jesus, that's not. And the same passion that I've
had in the streets I have with the Lord and
my big old mouth. I had a lot of zeal

(41:43):
back then. Not a lot of wisdom, but a lot
of zeal in twenty eighteen and I ran to the
Charlotte Agenda and by that time, you know, I had
some clout because I won some awards in the city.
And I ran to the Charlotte Agenda and said, we
need to take advantage of already established buildings that are

(42:04):
in the state of our Sugar Cree Corridor, and you
know those need to be housing and it doesn't. We
need to take advantage of these things kids are living inside.
I was so passionate and so hurt by what I
was seeing, and they put it out in this this
big article and from there we started a campaign, and

(42:26):
I was scared of death to start this campaign. You know,
two million dollars was an astronomical number for me at
that point. I was just like, you want me to
say that out loud, like we're gonna write and my
lady at the time, she said, I think you need
ten and I looked at her and I was like,

(42:49):
the only one this day too, man. So we started
a ten million dollar capital campaign to buy a hotel
and it was it was very, very ambitious, right, but
the guy had it on my heart. And you know,
after that, it's gold. You know, after that, it's gold.

(43:11):
There's no more gathering, there's no more let's pray about it,
there's no As soon as he give me the word,
it's time to go, right, And we started that campaign,
and then COVID happened.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Wow, right in the middle of the campaign.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Right in the middle of the campaign COVID. It was
just it was like, wow, okay, what are we supposed
to do? And I met a hotel owner who all right,
So I met this hotel owner, his named char Jale
Muslim brother, Okay, and that mean while your grandfather was Muslim,
so you know how to handle it. While my grandfather's

(43:48):
a Muslim. When my father came out of jail, he
had converted to Islam, right, So I'm well versed, and
I was able to talk to him and explain to him. Honestly,
let me give him some credit. He had a heart
for the community too. He's from Baltimore also, he lived
in Baltimore. He's seen poverty, right, And we were talking

(44:10):
and I said, man, how can we partner? And I said,
if you can give me this this rate, right, I
could raise the money. Right, I can't do seventy seven
dollars a night. If you can get me to about
forty five, right, I can help some families. And we
ended up doing some grants and we ended up receiving

(44:31):
grant money. And we started We started off with just
twenty five rooms right out of the hotel, and then
it moved to thirty. Then it moved to sixty. And
when we got to sixty rooms, the city started to
pay attention to what we were doing, right, and the
council started paying attention to what we were doing, and

(44:53):
they made an investment in us in twenty twenty four
and they gave us enough money to be able to
master the least the hotel for one year as a
pilot program to see if it can work the whole hotel.
I was speechless, like, we had a hotel, like the
whole the hotel that the lord said we.

Speaker 12 (45:14):
Were gonna have, We had a whole I'm and my
mind was like, if I can do the emoji where
your head explodes, I would right now right.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
I couldn't believe it. It was just like, okay, Lord,
what do you want us to do? What are we
supposed to do? The whole thing? You're gonna give us
the whole thing, okay. And it was so amazing to
see what transpired at that place because it was the
first time that I did a chaplain see right, first

(45:50):
time I did a chaplaincy in my organization, and people's
lives were transformed. It was just we had a market.
It was a market.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Oh that was me.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
That was me, find me emoji right quick? All my lords, ah,
my lords, it was And you know what what made
what let me skipped over something, What made me knew
we can do this was when we were working the
orchard trace and I was doing my after school program
passing car. I saw acts happen. You saw what I

(46:23):
saw the Book of Acts happen in real life. Like
That's how I knew we could do this hotel because
I've seen it happen in real life. I've seen people
bring possessions and money to the to the ministry so
we can serve I've seen people do that. I've seen
children come to the Lord. I've seen I've seen cancers

(46:44):
of the community be pulled out because everybody is focused
on the goodness of the community. I've seen that in
real life. Nobody can ever take that testimony away from me.
I've seen it. So when we got that hotel, I
knew it was like, oh, okay, persecution time ain't over.
But this is where we we inhabit in this land
right here, this is us and and and the Lord.

(47:07):
That's when I knew at that moment, we're supposed to
be territory takers for the Lord God. Right, We're supposed
to be territory taking that territory takers the Lord for
the Lord. We are not in charge of people. We
are in charge of the land that the Lord has
put us on. We are here to create the environment

(47:29):
so the Holy Spirit can come in and do what
it does right. And that's that when we got that hotel,
I was in the Book of Joshua, and in the
Book of Joshua, it was be bold, be courageous, take
over the land and wipe them out. Get the Canaanites
out of there. Get the Gideon, now, get them all
out of get them all out, go, go go. This

(47:51):
land belonged to This land belongs to the Lord. Yes,
and so so now I used to be a program provider,
and and now I'm a space provider, right, open up
the space for people to come in and for them
to experience the goodness of the Lord. And it was

(48:12):
a successful program. But it was done in the name
of Heal Charlotte, right, which which now gets me to
something God loves. Right, something God loves is a spawn
of what Heal Charlotte was supposed to be. Right, Hell
Charlotte was supposed to be a parachurch, not a nonprofit. Right.

(48:35):
But with me and my my ignorance and with my
immaturity and just being new, right, I started a nonprofit
because that's what the world told me to do. Go
get a father one C three. People giving you checks,
go get a five one C three, start that, start that,
And then over the years the fall one C three
gets up, and then it leaves Jesus a little bit. Right,

(48:58):
there's some idolatry that happens there, and there's a separation
that happens there, right, And that's why I know the
next hotel the Lord wants it to be. This is
a something God loves Parachurch. I want to take over
this whole building. I don't want a piece of the building.

(49:21):
I don't want to chaplain. See that's a piece of
your program. I want your program.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Because you know how God gave it to you.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Greg. So here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
When God puts, he deposits certain things into us in
our spirit, and then whenever we start rolling it out,
then we let other people, as my grandma say, grab
hold to it and then start missaging and maneuvering it
to be shaped like what they think it should be
versus how God instructed you to do it, and that
takes you down a different beaten path.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. And now ten years almost ten
years later, we are are my my mentees that I
first started with in Hell Charlotte day in college. Now
get one excuse me once getting a master's one's a junior.
You know they are doing so well and they're gonna

(50:17):
take over Hell Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
God, So you're building legacy. Even we just played the
song for those of you that are tuning in to
one of the songs that Greg H. Jackson performed legacy,
and so you're actually passing the baton to them so
that you could further go to the next level.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
All leaders under the sound of our voice. If you
don't have a secession plan, you ain't a leader. If
you don't have a secession plan, you ain't about the community.
If you don't have a secession plan, you're not thinking
outside of yourself. You will thinking self preservation. Mmmm, that's
you thinking how long can I sit in this seat? Right?

(50:57):
And that's not what we need. We don't need gatekeepers,
and we don't need people to just sit in the
seat and after a while you're sitting on your hands
in their seat. Nope, we need to make sure that
that thing gets passed on to the next generation so
they can bring innovation and energy and a new frequency
and spirit to what the Lord has put on your heart. Right.
So yes, they are taking here, Charlotte. And the Lord

(51:19):
has elevating me to do something God loves because he
wants his parachurch back. He doesn't want the nonprofit sector
no more, which has been monopolized, which has turned into
a business. It is not service, right, it is fine.
Is it is funding. It is philanthropy right, it's benevolence. Right,

(51:42):
it's it's not service.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
You're saying it with a with a rap twist to it,
but lends. Yes, you make a whole song about what
you're talking about right now. I don't know what it
will be. Fall It might because the devil is a liar.
I don't know what it is. A liar, come on now,
but it is.

Speaker 10 (52:02):
You know.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
We come up with all of these wonderful words for
what God calls a parachurch, right, the service of the
of the kingdom, going behind the kingdom. Right. Nonprofit has
turned into hey pastor, Hey pastor, you need to come
and serve over here. You need to come. And there's

(52:23):
poverty over here, this homelessness over here, you need to
come over here. What it's supposed to be is, hey, servants,
we have heard from thus said the Lord and the pastor,
and the prophet tells you where to go serve because
that's where the transformation is gonna happen. And that's biblical.
That's biblical. For all of y'all that read your Bibles,

(52:47):
you will know this from when Moses took to his
people out of the land to when we get to
Paul and Peter and Peter talking to Stephen and telling Stephen, hey, Stephen,
go deal with these hellenistic Jews. We ain't got time
for this right now. We got to go and preach.
We need you to serve. They fighting over who's gonna

(53:08):
get the rations and the portions. Right, that's right, that's
right there.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Assignment. They've been sent on an assignment to deal with
the social welfare or the evangelism and the specific things
alongside with that pastor or that bishop has instructed them
to do and what they are assigned to do in
their specialized area.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Yes, then, real good, this is something. So that's where
the Lord has me at. The Lord has brung me
all the way back around and saying, you have knowledge
of what a parachurch is. You've gone through all of
these years of serving. You know how this system has
been monopolized. I can't talk about about a church. We
in this Bible belt. It's a church on every corner,

(53:50):
absolutely right. I ain't a pastor. I'm not here to
criticize the church. I'm a nonprofit. I'm in the nonprofit space.
I can criticize the nonprofits. It's a non profit on
every on every corner. Two right, right, it's a nonprofit
on every corner too. The problem is we are out
of order and we got to get back in alignment

(54:10):
with what God wants right. We have to we have
to be sent somewhere. I was just talking to Bishop
Brown and he was telling me he has a trick
about doing his apex right. And he says, this is
the apostle the thumb because it holds he holds everything
together right right. He said, this is your prophet, is

(54:33):
your prophet right? He said, it's your pointer finger because
it points you where to go right right, right, points
you where to go. And when I when he said
that to me, I started thinking, and it said, man,
are we really being pointed where to go when we
want to do our service? Or are we pointing the
church where to serve? And that might be why we

(54:55):
see a lack of transformation happening in the land, in
people in our service right is because there is no
Holy Spirit, felled power coming with you. The ark of
the Covenant gotta be in front of you.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
It's gotta be before you be pulled into the direction
you're supposed to be going into and guide it into.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Other than now you're just on a walk. Yeah, and
we're looking up talking about God whitness, and God looking
at you.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Like I may tell you to do that.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
One of your mottos, one of your mottos is that
if everyone does a little, then no one will have
to do a lot.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
That's like a big thing for you. Yeah, that a
little bit roll clarity. It is roll clarity for us.

Speaker 6 (55:46):
Right.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
We overwhelm ourselves with the A lot, right right, We
see the A lot, and we and we overwhelm ourselves
with the A lot to the point of where you
don't even start. That's that ooh ooh.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
We get so stuck on stuck that it's unbelievable. We
can never get our feet out of concrete because we
don't know how to take just the first step.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Just take the first step, do the little bit. God
ain't even requiring you to do the a lot. Some
of y'all trying to do a lot, and He ain't
give you the shekels the do to a lot.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Oh my God, you you are in the a little
bit right And I'm slain in the spirit. People people
think you only get slain the spirit in church.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
I'll be like this right.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Right here, right here, slay right this second, because that
is so awesome.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
It's real, it's real if everyone does their little bit.
Start off with doing your cleanups. Start off with bringing
some clothes to a school, dropping off some school supplies.
Start off by helping a couple administrators teachers. Start off
by praying for your government officials, with with some people
that are in your neighborhood. Start off by walking into

(57:03):
the police department and introducing yourself and saying hello to everybody,
bringing them some ex swum whatever, and saying just showing
them love. Just start off with that in the Bible,
and then grow. It'll grow itself. It'll happen itself, right.
And if it doesn't grow itself, that's because God ain't
need you to do too much. He just keeeds you

(57:25):
to do it a little bit right. And then we
won't have to do a lot because the Lord will
intervene and the Lord will do thee a lot. That's
his job. His job is to do THEE a lot,
not our job, right.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
My God, And I am here jumping out of my seat,
Charmaginne said, she said, I am, And she has charm care,
so y'all makes you connect with Charmagne Thompson.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
She has another power. You definitely love Charmaine.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
She said, just listening to this, my lord, my lord,
she said, God is so awesome. God is so awesome.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Yes he is.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
And you you know what you're father to, Greg, So
as a father, how has fatherhood played a role in
everything that you're doing with your music, your ministry, nonprofit,
all of that. How has that particular role played a
role in any of that?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Yeah, I don't think I'll be who I am right
now without like fatherhood, I wouldn't be here because I've
been a bad dad, right, I've been a good dad.
I've been inconsistent. Me and their mom co parent right now.
She's one of my best friends. Absolutely love her, and

(58:36):
like it's it's been such of an experience to have
trials and tribulations. I've really learned how to check my
ego being a father. I really learned how to not
be a narcissist being a father. You know all of
those like worldly characteristics that are on you. You know

(58:58):
you see it, You see it on you, right, and
you want to check yourself because you don't want that
to be put on your children. Right. And then you know,
me and the mom, we would have disputes and it's
we we It took us a long.

Speaker 11 (59:15):
Time to get to where we're at right now, right
because it didn't happen overnight, right, But all of those
experiences of being a dad has gotten me to maturity,
right and to submission, really submission of my own thoughts,
submission of my own will, submission of submission of the Lord.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Right, knowing that if my children don't see me praise
the Lord, they're probably not going to marry a man
that praises the Lord.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
You know, if my children don't see me raise my
hands for the Lord, they're probably gonna end up getting
around men that raise their hands for some other other reason. Right. So,
just just just wanting to be more of a mirror
of Christ for my children, and in turn that changes

(01:00:10):
me and it makes me a better person. It makes
me a better dad. Right, So my kids are really
like the reason why I'm standing right, like I'm I
could have been.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Leaving my daughter in New York was the hardest thing
that I've ever done. That, Yeah, Jala man, that was
by the way, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
A popular name, it's a beautiful name, you know. But
she understands why I had to go, right and why
I had to grow and and but it was the
hardest thing that I had to do. But it made
a man out of me, right, it made a man
out of me. And I think more than anything, that's
what it's done. It's made you know, and everybody has

(01:00:56):
you know, they have these definitions of what man is
and what manhood is. Right. But it has made me
highly integral. Right. It has made me highly bold and courageous. Right.
It has made me operational. Right. It has made me

(01:01:17):
a provider. Right. It has made me a protector. Right.
It has made me humble, it has it has done
so many things to me as a man. Right. It
has made me it has made me cold my mouth
and be quiet sometimes because I don't have girls, and

(01:01:39):
I don't always know what they're going through. I don't
always relate to what is going through. So sometimes I
just got to listen and be quiet. Right, And and
that that that was new for me. Right. You know,
my my daughters have made me, uh like, I'm gonna
be an amazing husband when it's my time to be
a husband then, which I'm looking very forward to, because

(01:02:03):
they have, they have, they have really they made me
a nurturer, right, all you men that's listening. I think
we are supposed to be nurturiers. The devil is a lie, right,
I nurture my children, right, And that's that's something that
I didn't think that was in my role as a dad,
as a father, right, It's the softness is there, right,

(01:02:28):
being able to be a lamb for my children and
then also being able to be a lion for them too.
It's just it's been an amazing journey of being a father,
and it's it's really poured into my manhood. Honestly, it's
sharpened me so much. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Wow, I am excited about everything that I heard you say.
And whoever God blesses you to have that you find
as a wife will be a very blessed woman. And
I'm excited for you and your future wife. And please
invite me to the wedding at least.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Okay, Hey, Mary, you know I was in my prayer
closet yesterday, Like, Lord, let's get it done. Lord, I'm
forty two. It got to happen this year. I'm I'm
I'm moving fast. Lord, let's go. I ain't waste no time. No,
I'm not trying to do a matchmaking show. But at
the end of the day, people come on here like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
You, and then it's like, okay, guys, ladies, this gentleman
is out here looking for a beautiful bride whoever got
places in his heart. So you never know if it
happened because of the Kim Jacob show. I definitely want
y'all to give me some credit here and say you
know I met because they tuned into.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
The Kim Jacob shit. Bring you coming to the wedding coming, So.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
I will say this great, if I come to your
wedding and anybody's wedding that I ever do, or perform
or whatever, y'all would make sure I get a piece
of cake, because I know people wait until the pastor
leaves before they start cutting the cake and doing the
dance and all that stuff. Y'all need to have a
pastor's cake. That okay, But give me my little piece
of cake because I'm about sick and tied of go

(01:04:03):
in the weddings and don't get a slice of cake
as a pastor.

Speaker 13 (01:04:06):
That's one of them, one of them wedding bunk cakes. Honey, anything,
give me a little a little suth mean. I'm like,
you're just gonna wait me out. You go, I have
to leave before y'all do the first dance and cut
the cake and all that. Hey, put the cake a
part of your rate. You know I don't have when
you send an.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Invoice, be like slice of cake in the honorary.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Please say right, listen, you're actually gonna be coming to
minister on Sunday. And for those that may be watching
this as a replay, if it's not Sunday, September twenty first,
that's when this young man, Gregory Jackson, will be ministering
at Promised Fellowship Church for our Unity Sunday. We're gonna

(01:04:50):
be having Unity Sunday where we have groups from all
walk life. You have the the sororities, fraternities, Jack and Jill,
Easton Stars, you name it, any HBCUs, whatever T shirt
you want to wear or dress, see stuff that represents
your organization. We have Chris Ray, president of Barbara Scocial College,

(01:05:11):
will be one of our guest speakers. Doctor Sharon the Banks,
owner of Intentional Step Services.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
And Performing Live.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Greg H. Jackson, Founder and President of Hell Charlotte. How
do you feel about it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Oh man? And yeah, I'm I'm I'm We're gonna come
and we're gonna we're gonna praise the Lord. We're gonna
have a good old time. And the Lord I absolutely love, uh,
you know, worshiping, and however I can be as thank
you for inviting me and having me. It's an honor
and a privilege. So it's gonna be a good old time.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
We're gonna have it. And for those who either want
to know where we will be, we will be at
uh this promised Fellowship right at one two zero eight
zero University City Boulevard, about five minutes from you and
C Charlotte, And I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
If you know where Captain Steve is.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
For those that know in that location, it's about two
minutes from Captain Steve's location.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
And so make sure that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Y'all are in the house. So I wanted to go back,
and so this is where. This is the actual building,
that's where we will be.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Worth acoustics are gonna be nice in man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Yeah, whatever you bring, that's because we don't have a
bunch of music stuff happening. So whatever you bring, it's
gonna be. It's gonna be off the chain. And that's
a flyer as well, just so you know, and we
do stand on the Promises of God at Promised Fellowship Church.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Amen, that's what I'm talking about. Yes, and then we
got an event coming up ourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Yes, I want to make sure I pop that I'm
deleting these other ones so I can put your other
flyers up here and talk about this one more time.
I wanted to just put that before I delete it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Too, heals Charlotte. That is my nonprofit five ONH one,
C three that's out here in Charlotte, dedicated to neighborhood
revitalization with a holistic approach. And when we say holistic,
that means everything. That means mental health, that means financial literacy,
that means mentoring, coaching, that means homelessness, that means feeding

(01:07:09):
the hungry, all of the things that we were commissioned
to do anyway by the Great Lord. That is what
we do. That is what holistic means. And we're focused
to making sure neighborhoods have revitalization, right, revival, revival in
the neighborhoods. That's we don't want to just have people
that gentrification and then we want gentrification and revitalization. Yes, yes, yes,

(01:07:34):
that's what we want. So he'll Charlotte is working hard
within this city and we are looking forward to going
nationwide to heal Boston, Baltimore and New York. He'll he'll
heal the lands as far as we can go.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Yes, So everybody about your youth building peace concert friends,
concert friends.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Listen. The Good Lord gave me this one too. I'm
telling you this is This is one of the first
events from the Something God Loves Parachurch. Okay, Something God
Loves is an album that I came out with last year.
You could stream it on Apple and all of those platforms, Spotify,

(01:08:13):
and from that album has spawned a parachurch, and we
wanted to do a concertference, which is a concert and
a conference mixed together, because I didn't want to just
have worship music and then people leave all hype and
then you don't have any actionable items. You don't have

(01:08:34):
anything tangible for you to put into execution, right, So
we have panel discussions that are youth advocate panel discussions.
We have a panel discussion that youth will be on
talking about how to find peace in your life, how
to find peace and the schools in the workplace. We
also have Colin Pinckney, who is the president of Harvest Center.

(01:08:57):
That brother just signed a twenty five year as the
least over the Brookhill community. He will be leading that
community in housing for the next twenty five years. The
Harvest Center, he will be our keynote speaker.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
We also have workshops from Sister Caller, Kyllile, doctor Glenn Thomas,
and then also Mason Parker. Now Mason Parker is a
secular rapper. He's one of my brothers. But he came
out with a comic book with his album, so he'll
be teaching young people and parents how to create curriculum
inside of the household. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
I come.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
I come from a place where you if you didn't
have homework, your mother think about it for you and.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
For your homework.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
So we go. We're going back to those times where
we're equipping the parents with skills to be able to
make curriculum inside of the home. Right. Shout out to
our sponsors. Crowded construction, Stonebridge Church community, that's my sister church.
That's where we're gonna be at as group. They're gonna
be doing the commentary, the filming. New gym piece builders

(01:10:04):
absolutely love them. A group that works so hard, not
only in this city, but they're in Alabama. There's just
there's so many different places they work with high school
students that are focused on peace building. It's just an amazing,
amazing of course, CEMPD Hell, Charlotte, We're gonna be out there, y'all.
Y'all get out there and y'all visit us. It's gonna

(01:10:25):
be a free event. And more than anything, the Lord
stopped me in my tracks and he said, Greg, stop
talking about stock the violence, stop talking about homelessness, stop
talking about symptoms of poverty. The overarching conversation is I
am the Prince of peace. There is no peace. There

(01:10:47):
is no peace in affordable housing, there is no peace
in banking, there is no peace in education, there is
no peace in this city. There is no peace in government,
there is no peace you name it. That is a
symptom of this westernized civilization and the hierarchy that it makes.
There's no peace in it. There's too much division in it.

(01:11:09):
And he is calling for a day of peace on
September twentieth. Not the mayor, not the governor, not the
city council, but our Lord is calling for a day
of peace. That is so yes, I'm praying that the
mayor comes and does a proclamation for the city, and
that it's a citywide proclamation. But let's not forget that

(01:11:32):
the Lord is proclaiming a day of peace on September twentieth.
And if you're watching in another country, in another state
around this world, have a day of peace on September twentieth,
have a day of peace. It's peace for our brothers
and sisters that are in China that are being murdered

(01:11:55):
for saying the name of Jesus. Peace for our people
that are in Congo. Peace for our people that in Gaza.
Peace for our people that are in Ukraine. Peace for
our people that for the young kids that lost their
lives in Minneapolis. Peace to the like peace, peace, peace, peace,
Peace for everyone that's that's under our voice. We want

(01:12:16):
to make sure that we find this peace right. And
it's possible, y'all. It's impossible. This This is the Lord
wouldn't give us something that we can't handle, and peace
is something that we can handle. As people. We don't
have to live and king no more. All right, come on, y'all,
let's get together and let's let's unify. Right, Let's let's

(01:12:40):
get together, let's harmonize, right, let's let's be in melody
with each other. Let's listen. This is the Cross, everybody.
There's a vertical and there's a horizontal. Okay, And you
can be endowed in the vertical all you want. Congratulations,
You got a personal relationship with Lord. But he has

(01:13:01):
called you to be in community with people, and that
is the horizontal part of the Cross. That is the
lateral part of which we shall live. And we are
supposed to live in that horizontal part, y'all, and that
where peace is supposed to happen. You can't just have
peace in your prayer closet and peace when your Bible study.
You got to be able to have peace when you

(01:13:22):
come out your home. That's part of Christianity too, y'all.
That's part of it, y'all. So please get involved in
the horizontal part of the Cross and listen. Okay, y'all. Listen.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
If you don't do anything else, make su're on the
twentieth of September, that you market as a day of
peace and that you participate with this incredible free event
that is taking place and it is a day of
peace September twentieth right in Charlotte, North Carolina. Some dynamic
speakers will be their youth building peace concertference, concurference. Creativity

(01:14:00):
is definitely pouring out there right at stone Bridge Church community,
and so make sure that you be a part of
that day of peace.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
What time does it begin? From eleven am to three pm?
It's eleven am three pm.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
Eleven am till three pm. And that's if you're in
the Charlotte and surrounding areas. If you're not in Charlotte, because.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
This is an origin areas. If you're not in Charlotte,
go to the go to my something God Loves TV
on YouTube. So he said again something God loves TV YouTube, Something.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
God Love I just subscribe to loves yes on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
We will be streaming live on YouTube on September twentieth,
So if you can't be in the building, you can
watch us. It's a hybrid event and join us. It's
gonna last time we did, we did a stop the
Violence praise and worship two years ago, twenty five people
came to the Lord. So we're looking to do exceedingly

(01:15:03):
and abundantly past that. Yes, yes, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Look you I'm over here. You don't understand I'm over
here working. That's why I was looking down at my
phone trying to screenshot the flyer. I was like, Lord,
have mergy. I'm turning to Mackenzie, No, I need her
over here is what needs to Oh, this is what
you do right here gets some acrobats over here. But anyway,
make sure you all are tuning in on September twentieth,
no matter where you are around the country, at eleven

(01:15:28):
o'clock am Eastern Standard time, and you're going to be
a part of this wonderful occasion Youth Peace Concert Fence.
I do I do have to share with you all
as we prepare to close out here that on October
seventeenth weekend that is going to be our one year

(01:15:50):
celebration for our church at Promised Fellowship will be one
year finally and a year. It seems like it's been
a minute, but it's been one year. We have our
band Quick coming up on October seventeenth and Bishop jen
Wright will be our keynote speaker. On Saturday, October eighteenth,
we will have our ten year five k walk for

(01:16:12):
Gabe's Heart Foundation in honor of my son that passed
away with Sutton cardiac arrest. And so we walk in
honor of him. And we have a five oh one
C three organization, Gabe's Heart Foundation, and we are giving
a defibrillator away on that Saturday to an organization. The

(01:16:33):
way that you can qualify is by posting a one
minute video on your social media page and tag at
Gabe's Heart Foundation so that we can see your reason
why your organization should receive this portable defibrillator. The winner
will be announced at the five k walk, whether you're
present or not. If you've submitted a video, you are

(01:16:53):
being entered in for the giveaway. And then on that Sunday,
October nineteenth, Yeah, we're going to be having Passed Selling
Davis speak at our church anniversary service, so we hope
that you'll be able to be a part of all
of the festivities that's coming. Any clothing comments, Gregory, thank.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
You for having me on. First of all, God bless
you for carrying the ministry or your son. I'm like
that is I feel like that is so courageous and
it's just so admirable. Rest in peace to him, and
God bless you for just doing that. I know carrying
a legacy and carrying that torch is not always easy.

(01:17:33):
I work with so many moms that have lost their
son as a gun violence and they carrying on their
legacies and stuff like that. So my heart just you know,
warms for you and God to look at him. God
bless God, bless you for doing that and carrying that on.
So you know, as we need more people like you
in the world that can transform pain and put it

(01:17:55):
into purpose like that. So God bless you and your
heart and your spirit for that. That really just motivated
me to go and kick the devil's But even more so,
thank you and a shout out to everybody that was
watching and listening. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
Now, how do people stay connected with you?

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Greg? Yes? Greg H. Jackson. Please put the H there
all right, because you'll find a bunch of other Greg
Jackson I was searchin, But yes, Greg H. Jackson on
all things, mister Greg H. Jackson on Instagram, Greg Jackson
on Facebook, and then for my music it is Greg H.

(01:18:37):
Jackson on all platforms. You will be able to find
me follow me. I will follow you back. If I
don't follow you back, send me a d M and say, hey,
you lied, You're supposed to follow me back and.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
You do actually followed you and you did so you
and I followed you, I subscribed to your YouTube channel.
I can tell you that this has been a tremendous
blessing to have you here with us today. I have
my life has been improved just because there was some
heaviness going on. I've had two friends of mine pass
away within the last forty eight hours. My grandfather transitioned

(01:19:11):
last week, my last living grandparent. So my spirit was
kind of like heavy latent, and I was like, I'm
not about to do nobody's show right now. It is
what I was thinking. But I'm so grateful that I
came on and went live with you because you you
just you inspired me and you made my spirit feel
so much more uplifted than edified. So thank you for

(01:19:32):
being my guest today.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
It was my pleasure. It was my you texting me saying,
you know, in condolences to your grandfather, grandparents, like you
telling me that you know you're still trying to make
time to do this while you're going through all of that.
I was just I was found myself praying for you, like, man,
I don't know how she's doing this right. So all
of your listeners and all of your viewers and followers

(01:19:53):
like y'all continue to support pastor Kim, and she's doing
it because she is a real one. You a real
for that, like real thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
Then let me wipe my tears enough to be able
to get you to say something while I put this high.
People can support the Kim Jacob You be like, okay, okay,
wipe your eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Man, what the Kim Jacob Show? Y'all, y'all gotta give.
Make sure y'all give, give, give support, support support. There's
enough love to go around. If you feel like, oh,
I want to help heal Charlotte, but I want to
help split it in half, do what you gotta do.
It's enough to go around. Well, make sure that you
so accede in the ministry that is feeding you, and

(01:20:31):
that is that is Kim Jacobs Show. So make sure
that you are invested in this and give back the
way you getting a good play of food at y'all
come on now, come on so much now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
How can they support Hell Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Go to hell Charlotte dot org and you will be
that's our website, Hell Charlotte dot org. You can donate,
volunteer your tim you know how we say it. Tom
talent and treasure, Tom talent and treasure right, and ideas too,
ideas too. And if you got some young people that
are looking to be used and don't know what to do,

(01:21:09):
send them my way, because we got some stuff for
them to do.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
All right, y'all, listen, We're going to close out with
one of your songs. I normally close out with just
the close out of the show, but I want you
all to support Heal Charlotte dot org. And you're gonna
be pouring into very solid, great ground that's willing to
be used by God. This is a willing vessel of God.

(01:21:34):
And I'm excited. And he's also looking for a wife,
he said that, So not just Heal Charlotte, heal his heart. Okay,
all right, everybody, I'm gonna play one of your songs.
The song I'm getting ready to play, and this again
is in honor of my grandfather, my granddad Key that
just and his legacy will live on through me. But
I wanted to just do it slick, But no, you

(01:21:56):
can't tell him nothing. I used to scratch his dander
back in the day, and then I I said, but
he allowed me to scratch his soul in his eighties.
So I'm so grateful to God I was able to
help you. Just go through some of the things with
the word of God. Sing Hey, this song I'm gonna
play as we close out is Demons Outside prefacing for
us as we prepare to close out. What is demons
Outside about?

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
Man? Demons Outside is a call out for the people
that are in the church to stop preaching to each
other because we know the word and the people are
outside and they are in need of us. There are
demons outside. There are wolves and shepherd clothing, wolves and
sheep clothing, and they are coming for our seeds. They
are coming for our babies. And the church has become

(01:22:38):
a museum of the perfect where we come every Sunday
and preach to each other and make each other feel good.
And then we don't go outside with the sword of
the Word and preach to the people that actually eat it.
So if you're ready for warl go get your Bible.
We only so of Christ, no other idols come on.

(01:22:58):
That is the song. If you're scared, stay in church
because it's demons outside. I can't wait for you to
perform on Sunday to minister on Sunday to us we are.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
We're in for a tremendous treat y'all. Make sure y'all
are there, and let's go ahead and take a listen
as we close out today's episode. Tune in again this evening.
We have a special episode with you on how to
have true love with God and I have a very
special guest that'll be joining us this evening at seven
o'clock PM for a special episode of The Kim Jacobs Show.
So make sure you are right back here in your seats.

(01:23:33):
We're closing this show.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Out, Gregory, thank you for being all day. Thank you,
paul I love you all, and close out watch.

Speaker 9 (01:23:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, be outside the name of Jesus for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:23:50):
Let's go get him forget them a bit. If you're
ready for war, go get your bibe. We only serve Christ.
We sing for the Lord. It's so masid sight.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
You're staying outside for the provival.

Speaker 6 (01:24:03):
If you're scared to stay in church, go tight to
your favorite verse. These demons is outside. Disciples are making work.
These Christians are too holy. We'll even go play in dirt.
You know how My Savior work, the one that created earth.
Scared to stay in church, this demons outside the young
boy's trigger fingers and squeezing outside. The young girls fifteen
and they freaking outside. The mothers of the church need

(01:24:24):
to lead them outside. It was each one, teach one,
reach them outside, Grandma, pull your air if you were
sneaking outside. Now we close the doors of the church
and leave them outside. We'd have had them in the house.
Let's bring Jesus outside. You can't stay in church, steams outside.
You can't stop playing church steamings outside sound scared to
stay in church and theams outside. She can't stop playing

(01:24:47):
church steam us out, demus out, ready for what?

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
Thank you for tuning in to today's episode of The
Kim Jacobs Show and for being in the virtual studio audience.
Your presence truly does make a difference, and I look
forward to you bring your friends and family to join
you in the virtual studio audience Monday through Friday at
eleven o'clock am Eastern Standard Time.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
I look forward to seeing you and make it a
great day.

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