Christian Hip-Hop to Help Haiti

Claude Gillot, a Dordt College student from Haiti, has organized a Christian rock and hip-hop-music-style concert to raise resources to help the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee continue its relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti.

At the concert set for November 5 in Sioux Center, Iowa, Gillot will also be singing a song for Haiti and will briefly describe what he's seen there since the earthquake rocked his homeland earlier this year, killing and injuring thousands of people and damaging or destroying many homes and businesses.

CRWRC is currently focusing much of its work in communities in and around the Leogane area, where the epicenter of the massive earthquake took place in on January 12.

Much of the current work is geared to provide earthquake survivors materials, labor and other resources to build or rebuild homes.

Sponsored by Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, the concert will feature F.O.G. (Flame On Gospel) and a duo from Broken Resolve. Both bands are based in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Doors at the B.J. Haan Auditorium will open at 6:30 p.m., with $5 admission at the door. The concert will start at 7 p.m.

Those who attend can expect "dancy beats and scripture-inspired lyrics" in a unique blend of hip-hop and worship music, according to Adam "SieffStyle" Sieff of F.O.G.

He says his band's musical style is "sometimes techno, flashy, dancy, and other times chill, acoustic, funky, catchy, something to ride to, but all the time being worship."

Broken Resolve says of their band, "We are out there for the purpose of praising God, who has given us so many opportunities to fulfill the plan that he has laid down on our hearts."