The hip-hop community being transformed by God as we explore, trust, follow, and share Jesus Christ together.

Hip-hop culture + God + friendships + you’re invited.

Growing in skillz, faith, and life together (in a way that’s natural to the hip-hop culture)
Building our personal relationships with God (through Bible, prayer, the Holy Spirit, and fellowship)
Helping others know the grace and truth of Jesus Christ to have his forgiveness and guidance

Some of the things we do to help you achieve those. Contact us for more details.

Breaking Sessions

Monday evenings

graff sketch Sessions

Random times (online)

Scratch sessions

Random times (in-person)

q&A’s

Sunday nights (online)

Bible Studies

Sunday nights (online) and Mondays evenings (in-person)

international summit

Once a year

charity breaking jam

Collected clothes for the homeless

chillin’

Random times

Giving Away Bibles

Anytime

And our online hip-hop church services (on the 3rd Thursday of each month). Here’s an example:

what others are saying

“Getting together with City Lights has changed my life. Through them I found a group that loves God and that I feel comfortable being open with. No judgements, just honest conversation and support!”
“City Lights keeps me connected to my faith in the context of the hip-hop world we live in.”
“I feel like God blessed me through City Lights by bringing me around the right kind of people who are a positive influence on my life.”
“City Lights provided an honest space to talk about faith, artistry and sexuality – a space vitally important for the discipleship of so many, especially those who feel alienated by the church.”
“City Lights has provided a space for me to see if God can use my passion for poetry and hip-hop to help build his kingdom.”
“Growing up, I was told that hip-hop and Christianity can never come together. This community has been actively and deeply involved with my faith, struggles, and marriage and have showed me that the Bible is still active today, even in the hip-hop community.”
“I found a group of Christians that I can be myself around. City Lights is a positive thing in my life and that’s important.”

what’s so dope about jesus?

God created the world and it was all what we all wanted – a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict. But by turning from God we lost that world. Our sin unleashed forces of evil and destruction so that now things fall apart and everything is characterized by physical, social, and personal disintegration. However, Jesus Christ came into the world, died as a victim of injustice and as our substitute, bearing the penalty of our evil and sin on himself. Then he beat death and rose again. All for free, out of his grace and love for us.

This will enable him to some day judge the world and destroy all death and evil without destroying us. Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgement for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever. And one day, he will return (from heaven, where he is interceding for us) to have those who believe in him to be with God.

Do you believe that you have sinned and are worthy of judgment from God? Do you believe that Jesus took your punishment upon Himself? Do you believe that his death was enough to redeem you for your sins? Do you want to be free from the influence of sin? Do you want to be free from guilt, shame, and other things the cause a ruckus within us? If so, ask Jesus to be your rescuer and leader. Admit your sins and accept His death as the sufficient sacrifice for your sins. Trust him alone as your saviour, and start your personal relationship with God.

In following Jesus, you will turn from a life of sin to a life of holiness. You’ll also have a growing sense of joy, peace, hope, purpose, freedom from sin, etc. In this new life with God, you won’t be doing it alone. You’ve got God and we’d love to help as well. (And note: you don’t have to stop doing, enjoying, or making only Christian versions of the hip-hop elements.)