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Combating Violence 2010

Pastor Phil Jackson walks the streets with his young church members who volunteer to talk to teens and young men on the west side of Chicago. Pastor Jackson’s mission is to keep the gang violence down while they are hanging out on street corners. Church members and churchgoers worship at the house. The house is a church with a different twist. They play hip-hop music and praise the Lord. After church on Saturday’s in the summers Pastor Phil Jackson and other young church goers walked the streets of the Westside of Chicago. The Westside is one of the most gan infested neighborhoods in Chicago. Pastor Jackson talks to people on the corner and helps to find jobs for teens and young men and woman in his community.



 

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