ABS gets hip-hop happy

Photo: Young people at the Fla.vor Fest Christian hip-hop conference held in November 2002 incorporated elements of hip-hop – its music, dance and art – to connect with their peers. Crossover Community Church in Tampa, Florida, where the four-day festival was held, ministers to inner-city youth using hip-hop culture and down-to-earth exposition from the American Bible Society’s Contemporary English Version Bible. USA. Photo: ABA/Thomas Sullivan (USA03DJ-3)
Young people at the Fla.vor Fest Christian hip-hop conference held in November 2002 incorporated elements of hip-hop – its music, dance and art – to connect with their peers. Crossover Community Church in Tampa, Florida, where the four-day festival was held, ministers to inner-city youth using hip-hop culture and down-to-earth exposition from the American Bible Society’s Contemporary English Version Bible (see also Cross Movement Ministries). USA. Photo: ABA/Thomas Sullivan (USA03DJ-3)

NEW YORK, United States — The American Bible Society (ABS) has added its support to moves by churches and youth ministries to adapt and adopt hip-hop music and culture as a way of reaching young people with the Gospel.

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