Greetings! My name is Marvin Hall, and I am pastor of Starlight Community Church (SCC). I live and work in a neighborhood called Bayview-Hunter’s Point. It’s a high crime neighborhood located in southeast San Francisco, where we continually deal with violence, poverty, homicide, broken families and drugs.

Christ was born into a world of violence. All the male babies that looked like Him were to be murdered because of the revolutionary threat of His birth. Christ was also born in a setting of poverty; the Roman Empire was participating in its own version of industrialization and urban development.