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Gospel Star Marvin Sapp to Perform at South Cobb Community Forum Tonight

Come out to hear the much-loved praise songs of Marvin Sapp and to discuss education issues.

Austell’s has teamed up with gospel singer and pastor, Marvin Sapp and education organizations, the American Federation for Children and the Center for an Educated Georgia to bring a special event to South Cobb this evening, beginning at 7.

South Cobb school board member David Morgan helped organize the community forum, which is free to the public.

Morgan said he’d read that Sapp’s late wife, MaLinda, had been working to establish a charter school before she passed, and he reached out to Sapp for the event.

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“You have to have a great messenger when you’re trying to do something radically different,” Morgan said.

Sapp's "Never Would Have Made It" went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart and No. 14 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs in 2008.

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Tonight’s event will be filled with singing and “meaningful dialogue about what do we do when the school down the street doesn’t work for you,” Morgan explained.

Morgan, who is employed with American Federation for Children, said he wanted to organize the event because “education impacts us all. When you have a well-educated society, that’s just a win-win for everybody involved…We want to make sure that children and families have every opportunity available to get a good education and are not deprived due to geography or income.”

“I believe in strong public education and I also believe that families should have options. That makes a huge difference.”


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