Shine's Transformation from a boy to a young man

Shine entered my home a few years ago as a member of the BLOODs gang. Well after many heartaches, and struggles he is now a Christian on his way to college. It all started with the agency SCO calling to find out if they can place another child in my home. A child I had never met but who was already 18 years old. Well I said to myself I knew what I was getting into when I signed up for this so I met him and he moved in. He has accomplished so much since being in my home. After getting kicked out of numerous GED programs he took on the challenge of studying on his own at home and he took the GED and passed it. He also earned a certificate to work as a security guard and he has been promoted a few times since he got the job. He got saved and was baptized. He also passed the entrance exam and was accepted into NYACK COLLEGE. WOW that's a long way from from being a gang member. It's amazing to see the power of God at work in Shine's life. A young man who his family and the world gave up on. He found a new family in Christ and it's made all the difference in the world. Praise God!














Pic of Chang, Jessee, Teddy, Joshua, Jairus and Shine

Stay tuned for the video coming soon of SHINE testifying about how God transformed his life.

Media describes black teenage boys as men?

What's your thoughts on this video?

Was it wrong for these two 17 and 18 year old teenage boys announced as "men" to do what they did? Of course it was wrong, but let's not forget that they are still children themselves not men which the media repeatedly announces them as. The media expects these boys to behave as a grown and responsible man.

Plus it doesn't help the already tarnished image of young black men. It appears that along with the NY POST newspaper there are still very ignorant people who live in America regardless if it's 2009 and our president is BLACK.

Is it fair for the media to do this? What are your thoughts? Please leave comments below.

This is a new blog I plan to update weekly.

Video of my son Teddy performing his song and in college

This song performed in this video is called "Christians Get Down" by Yung Fresh a.k.a. Teddy featuring Tanisha Renee Brown. It's a powerful song with a hot beat and great lyrics.


At the end of the video there's a clip of Teddy at Nyack College. He just recently passed of his classes during his 1st semester of college and now he's working on his 2nd semester. Although he's happy to be in college. It's like a sweet and sour experience because he misses his family at home while he lives on campus.

Forida Vacation

Here's some pics from our Florida Vacation to Disney World.

My son will be home tomorrow from the hospital

It's been 3 weeks since JD was hospitalized due to being excessively absent from school. Unfortunately I was totally unaware of the fact that he was being marked absent from school and it wasn't till it was too late to address the issue that he was hospitalized. Being that he's in foster care his social workers decided to hospitalize him so that he can be re-evaluated. The hospital changed his medication and say they have seen improvements in his behavior since then.

We are looking forward to JD returning home and hope that he will do better in school. Please prayer for him. Stay tuned to hear about his improvements in the future.

My son's in the hospital

I haven't written in a while and so many things have transpired since then that I don't have time to post it all. One of the major things that has recently occurred was that the foster care agency put my son in the mental hospital so they can re-evaluate him. Honestly I disagreed with there approach because I felt it was a bit extreme way of addressing a issue he has been dealing with in school. I have no real problems with him at home it's just the school that is unable to properly supervise him. Unfortunately they reported that he missed numerous days of school so that is why the agency put him there. We were unaware that he wasn't going to classes because everyday he would get on the bus and after school he when asked how was school he said it was fine. A month ago it was discovered that he was hanging out in the music room playing drums rather than going to class. Although JD says he has been going to class since then It's my belief that he may have found another hang out spot in the school and that may be why he has been marked absent.

Just last night I went to visit him in the hospital and spent time talking with JD and playing cards with him and his brother who I brought along. I also found out that's it's been an entire week already and according to him he has not met with a therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist yet. He also reported that there form of school in the hospital is a teacher who reads from a book for 20 minutes and then they go to gym and lunch and then gym again. Really sounds like a wasted of time. I really don't understand why they haven't met with him yet and I hope he get's out soon. Please pray for JD and that he comes home soon. This is the 2nd time that he has been hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. The last time was just before he moved in with us and that was over a year ago and they had him in there with his brother for about 4 months. Thanks for your prayers. God Bless You!

Inspirational Freestyle Mixtape

I'm releasing a new project called INSPIRATIONAL FREESTYLES. It's a mixtape which contains all freestyles raps. Nothing on it is rehearsed or written. It's rawest form of Hip-Hop that you can ever find. I like how wikipedia defines it.

Freestyle rap is an improvisational form of rapping, performed with few or no previously composed lyrics, which is said to reflect a direct mapping of the mental state and performing situation of the artist. It is non-scripted, non-rehearsed, uncut, and the rawest form of hip-hop. Artists will often refer to places and objects in their immediate setting. Freestyle rapping forces an individual to think on the spot, describe their surroundings, and, to a certain degree, rap uncensored from what is inside. It is similar in this sense to improvisational music or acting and draws comparisons to improvisational jazz in particular.

Here's a video link
to all the videos I posted so far of some of the songs on the mixtape. One of my favorites so far is called "I SEE YOU"