‘Father’s Day’ At 53, Kirk Franklin Discovers Biological Father In Emotional Discovery - Inspirational Videos

Grammy Award-winning Christian musician Kirk Franklin has finally found something he has been searching for his entire life: his biological father.

Parents are necessary for any and every child’s growth and development. Parents, as God intends, provide children with the required love, care, support, structure and discipline they need to survive and function in life. 

However, like a band or in a church, where everyone has their part and role, so it is in a family. A mother can give a child certain things that a father cannot. On the other hand, a father can help meet a child’s emotional and psychological needs that a mother cannot. Remove one of those people from a child’s life, and they can experience several emotional, spiritual and psychological issues. 

Singer Kirk Franklin, who was adopted as a child, understands this situation all too well. His entire life, the 53-year-old singer has searched for his biological father. In a documentary posted on Kirk’s official YouTube page, he finally learns that his father is a man who lives in the same city that he works in, only minutes from his studio.

Early in the clip, Kirk is on the phone with the doctor, who breaks the news to him. The man, Rick Hubbard, who submitted a DNA test on his own accord, is his father. The doctor tells Kirk there is a 99.99 percent probability of paternity.

Kirk is completely overwhelmed, unable to process the news he has been waiting to hear his entire life. 

Later in the clip, near the 16-minute mark, Kirk meets the man who is his father. It’s understandably an emotional meeting. 

In the video, Rick opens an envelope that Kirk hands him and is immediately overcome with emotion, burying his face in his hands and crying. 

There are tears, hugs and apologies between the two men.

“He didn’t even know,” Kirk said. “He didn’t even know he had a son. And I didn’t even know I had a father. That close, I was that close. I was that close to having a daddy. I wanted a daddy so bad.”

Ephesians 6:4 “And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.”