Ground Game Ministries uses urban fiction books and hip-hop music to illuminate an alternative path to street crime, violence and human trafficking.  The organization promotes urban peace using the language of the streets.  Ground Game Ministries uses credible influence to point out a positive path to young people in troubled urban streets or incarceration facilities. 

 

You might have grown up in a community with positive role models, concerned adults and community guideposts marking right and wrong.  Now, imagine growing up in a neighborhood where members of the underground drug economy and shadowy human traffickers with platinum Cuban link chains were hoisted up as role models.  Imagine being a highly impressionable child in a world where social media stars bragged about committing robberies and flexed with fat stacks of raw cash on Instagram.  When you are young, influence is everything.  

 

Ground Game Ministries is built on the concept of critical influence.  Oakland gangsta rapper, 1100 Himself called executive director Rev. Harry Williams (aka OG Rev) a “bridge.”  The young hip-hop artist pronounced OG Rev, an elder whose voice resonates with young people through the mediums of hip-hop music and urban fiction literature, 

 

22 years of grassroots ministry and activism amid some of America’s most crime challenged hoods has given Rev. Harry Williams the street knowledge and credibility to craft messages that speak into the lives of young people in need of direction.  He is a credible messenger to those on the margins. Noted public intellectual and presidential candidate, Dr. Cornel West once wrote: “Harry Williams is a wise courageous guide through our chocolate cities with a precious focus on our neglected and abandoned fellow citizens.”