Hezekiah Walker Gospel Countdown

Join Grammy Award-winning Hezekiah Walker for an afternoon ride like no other that includes the best traditional & contemporary Gospel/Inspirational hits, celebrity & artist interviews, lots of laughter, and so much more!

Hezekiah Walker is not a man who lives by the odds. In fact, he has made a life, and a preeminent career and ministry, by defying them. Born and raised in a public housing project in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up on some of the meanest streets of inner-city America. In a place where most young men lived life in a revolving door between incarceration and the street, if they lived at all, Hezekiah escaped onto a path that would lead him to places he could scarcely have dreamed of as a boy.  With natural, God-given gifts for music, Hezekiah was singing in his church choir, and performing as a soloist, from the time he was eight years old. Writing and arranging songs for a small Gospel ensemble in his mid-teens was only the first step in the odyssey that, more than a decade later, led to the forming of Hezekiah’s own ensemble, the 14-member Love Fellowship Crusade Choir.

In the beginning, Hezekiah envisioned LFC as nothing greater than a weekend outlet for the musical talents of himself and a handful of gifted friends. But the Almighty clearly had bigger things in mind. In fact, twenty years down the line, as Hezekiah has risen from founder and builder to leader of one of America’s cutting-edge Gospel choirs, one would have to say it has been quite an amazing journey, indeed.  Over the years, many songs by Hez & LFC have become nothing short of anthems for the young Gospel church, among them “Clean Inside,” “Jesus Is My Help,” “Wonderful Is Your Name,” “Power Belongs to God,” and “Let’s Dance.” With two coveted Grammy Awards, as well as numerous Stellar, Dove, Vision, Soul Train, and Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA) Awards to Hez and LFC’s credit, and Hez’s active and ongoing pastoring of the thriving Love Fellowship Church, which he founded in his native Brooklyn, New York, he is clearly a man in no mood to lay back and rest on his laurels.  For more than a decade, Hezekiah has anchored Afternoon Drive on New York’s WLIB 1190, bringing star power, conversation, and inspiration to millions of loyal listeners.  Reflecting over two golden decades of music, radio, and ministry, Hez finds his encouragement in the simple recognition of the work of God in his life. From a poor boy in a Brooklyn housing project to a pioneer of modern Gospel music, and all that he sees portending for the next 20 years.

“I want to see the reach of the Love Fellowship Choir, and the Church, continue to grow in the amazing way it has over these years, and even more so. There is no end to the work we are called to do, or limit to the number of people who need to hear and know the saving message of Christ and the Gospel. And the Lord has given me confidence in what I believe, what I preach, and what I write and sing, now and over all this time,” he concludes. “When I look back over my life and see where God has brought me from, where I am today, and all the great things that still lie ahead, it’s impossible not to feel confident, and thankful, and trusting in Him.”