Zionic ministries is located on the corner of Webster and Park Avenue somewhere in the Bronx. With a congregation of about a hundred and fifty adults cutting across a number of racial and cultural lines. It is only a small church but within its ranks you will find a diverse history of religious experiences, a common appreciation and accommodation of individual differences and perhaps even a prophecy of the future.

Nowhere is the meeting more alive on any Sunday morning than in the youth department. It is here the church trains its reserve, from its teenagers down to babes in arms. My interests lie mainly with the teens. Bold and uninhibited they are a product of the hip hop culture recently grafted into the body of Christ. There is a liberty to their worship and faith. Their conversation (in the literal and...