WATCH: GLORY BE TO GOD! KIRK FRANKLIN Faces Two Bitterly Painful situations in his Life like a man: He finally finds his birth father at the age of 53, and by God’s grace reconnects with his son Kerrion after being estranged for ten years, and says that after all he’s been through, “even when I want to curse the sky, I’m still built to BELIEVE” in God the FATHER and His SON Jesus Christ.

WATCH: GLORY BE TO GOD! KIRK FRANKLIN Faces Two Bitterly Painful situations in his Life like a man: He finally finds his birth father at the age of 53, and by God’s grace reconnects with his son Kerrion after being estranged for ten years, and says that after all he’s been through, “even when I want to curse the sky, I’m still built to BELIEVE” in God the FATHER and His SON Jesus Christ.

Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says the Paternity test was not necessary. Rarely does a grown son look just like his father, as Kirk Franklin looks like his father. The man to your right of Kirk Franklin is how Kirk Franklin will look in about twenty years. With all the pain Kirk Franklin has been through in his life and is still going through, he can still take comfort in the fact that God the Father allowed these things to happen so that He could be his FATHER to make him great and be a blessing to millions. Whyte says further, the people who suffer the most bless the most, oftentimes through pain that just won’t stop.

 

The Grammy-winning gospel star’s new documentary chronicles how, while working on his new album, he located his real biological dad after decades of searching

When Kirk Franklin began working on a new album earlier this year, the Grammy-winning musician had no idea what was in store.

“This is the first time I’ve had a behind-the-scenes videographer capturing content for the making of a project,” Franklin, 53, says of working on his 13th album. “I recorded the first song in March. Then in April, everything shifted and became something I could have never planned for.”

What the cameras ended up capturing was an intense, emotional journey the star went on after suddenly learning who his real biological father was. He also saw it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged eldest son Kerrion, 35, whom he hadn’t seen in a decade.

Franklin has compiled the footage from these events into a short documentary streaming Sept. 15 on his YouTube channel ahead of the Oct. 6 release of his new album. Both projects are aptly titled Father’s Day.

Now Franklin is sharing with PEOPLE what all it’s taken to get to this point, along with an exclusive clip of the moment his doctor delivered the news of his biological father’s paternity.

“My life before I had a career was horrific,” says Franklin. Long before he became the guiding voice of gospel music, orchestrating decades of hits like “Revolution” and “Wanna Be Happy?”, Franklin experienced a tough childhood growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was adopted at age 4 by a woman at his church. According to Franklin, his birth mother, then a young teen, was unable to care for him. Though he knew who she was, they rarely connected during his youth and he often felt abandoned.

Source: People Magazine: https://people.com/kirk-franklin-has-found-his-birth-father-exclusive-7970118