Hosanna Wong

The Power Of the Spoken Word
In this episode of Craft & Character, preacher and author of How (Not) to Save the World, Hosanna Wong, unpacks how poetry has influenced her preaching. Growing up in San Francisco, Hosanna competed in various underground slam poetry contests and she learned the art of storytelling, the rhythmic patterns within sentences, and how to speak truth using the fewest words possible. She talks candidly about what the transition was like moving from spoken word artist to preaching regularly at her church and around the world.

Who is Hosanna Wong?

Hosanna Wong is an author, a Bible teacher, and a spoken word artist, sharing captivating stories of a powerful God with churches, conferences, prisons, and events around the country year-round. She is passionate about empowering this generation to know who they are and to boldly live out their purpose. Her sermons and spoken word pieces are rooted in her upbringing on the streets of San Francisco, her first-hand experiences with loss, hope, and redemption, and her innermost desires to see lives healed and restored by the power of Jesus.

Hosanna is the teaching pastor at EastLake Church in San Diego and the executive director of Calvary Street Ministries, an outreach bringing hope to the homeless and low-income families in San Francisco. Under the name Hosanna Poetry, she has released two spoken word albums—Maps, Boots, & Other Ways We Get There and Figless. She has also authored 2 books—I Have a New Name and Superadded.

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Steve Carter is a renowned pastor, speaker, author, and the former lead teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago.

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