bhtrainer
04-27-2007, 08:11 AM
April 26, 2007, 4:18PM
Mom has high hopes for Snoop Dogg
Beverly Broadus Green predicts son will preach
Snoop Dogg's extensive criminal background got him banned from Australia this week, but his evangelist mother has faith the rapper will turn his life around and begin to follow Christ.
"I know one day God is going to change my son, and he will be a preacher," Beverly Broadus Green said. "He will preach God's word."
In Houston last week supporting the work of a local faith-based shelter, Broadus Green said she has a good relationship with Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr.
She doesn't attend his concerts, but the two e-mail, text and phone, she said.
"We are on different sides right now because he is in the secular world doing his thing and I am in the world doing what God wants me to do," she said. "But the time comes when he calls me and says, 'Mom, I need you to pray for me.' And I pray right then and there."
Along with success, Snoop Dogg's career has been marked by run-ins with the law, including a conviction for cocaine possession in 1990. This month, he was sentenced to five years' probation and 800 hours of community service after pleading no contest to felony gun and drug charges in California.
Australia is the second country to deny Snoop Dogg a visa.
"He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told Sydney's Macquarie Radio.
Broadus Green said she raised Snoop Dogg and his three brothers in church and demonstrated God in their home. Snoop, as she calls him, went to Sunday school and Bible study and sang in the choir.
"I know what was taught to them is embedded in their hearts, and I know that one day God is going to turn that situation around and bring him back to where he needs to be at, and that is serving a true and living God."
Broadus Green said her son "is not as bad as he used to be."
"He is slowly changing, and so that is God putting him in the position for what he has for him, and that is as a preacher," she said. "It has already been prophesied that I'll have my church and that my son will be right there with me."
Mom has high hopes for Snoop Dogg
Beverly Broadus Green predicts son will preach
Snoop Dogg's extensive criminal background got him banned from Australia this week, but his evangelist mother has faith the rapper will turn his life around and begin to follow Christ.
"I know one day God is going to change my son, and he will be a preacher," Beverly Broadus Green said. "He will preach God's word."
In Houston last week supporting the work of a local faith-based shelter, Broadus Green said she has a good relationship with Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr.
She doesn't attend his concerts, but the two e-mail, text and phone, she said.
"We are on different sides right now because he is in the secular world doing his thing and I am in the world doing what God wants me to do," she said. "But the time comes when he calls me and says, 'Mom, I need you to pray for me.' And I pray right then and there."
Along with success, Snoop Dogg's career has been marked by run-ins with the law, including a conviction for cocaine possession in 1990. This month, he was sentenced to five years' probation and 800 hours of community service after pleading no contest to felony gun and drug charges in California.
Australia is the second country to deny Snoop Dogg a visa.
"He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told Sydney's Macquarie Radio.
Broadus Green said she raised Snoop Dogg and his three brothers in church and demonstrated God in their home. Snoop, as she calls him, went to Sunday school and Bible study and sang in the choir.
"I know what was taught to them is embedded in their hearts, and I know that one day God is going to turn that situation around and bring him back to where he needs to be at, and that is serving a true and living God."
Broadus Green said her son "is not as bad as he used to be."
"He is slowly changing, and so that is God putting him in the position for what he has for him, and that is as a preacher," she said. "It has already been prophesied that I'll have my church and that my son will be right there with me."