Today we’d like to introduce you to Malcolm Hawkins.
Hi Malcolm , please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I’ve been telling stories for as long as I can remember. Around the age of ten, something in me woke up. I didn’t have language for it then, but I knew I was chasing truth. Sometimes that truth came through music, sometimes through writing, sometimes through images and film. What I’ve learned over time is that storytelling wasn’t just a creative outlet for me; it was how God was forming his voice in mine.
That journey hasn’t been clean or linear. It’s been marked by joy and loss, confidence and wrestling, moments of clarity followed by long seasons of refinement. But underneath it all has been a steady desire: that God’s love would be seen clearly, not abstractly, and that His kingdom would find expression in the ways that I love and live.
Marriage and fatherhood had given the most shape to this in my life. My wife, Tiarah, and our two children exist on sacred ground in our home, where love comes alive in ways that only God can produce. It’s in the everyday rhythms of family life, laughter around the table, and moments of discipline where I began to understand something I had missed growing up: discipleship. Discipleship in a Christian household was never meant to be outsourced to a local church or anywhere else. Family is not peripheral to God’s kingdom. It is foundational.
That revelation changed the direction of my ministry and my work. What began as personal conviction became a company that helps families rediscover their role as God’s primary vessel for formation, identity, and faith. Over the past five years, my wife and I have served in various ministry roles, including leading engagement and discipleship efforts, before eventually stepping into the work we now lead together in the Greater Orlando area. Our focus is simple but demanding: to help families build a culture of discipleship in the home.
I wear many titles, author, speaker, filmmaker—but at my core, I am simply a son to an amazing father. A husband to an amazing wife. And a father to amazing children. I’m a minister of the gospel who believes that faith must be embodied, practiced, and passed down. I care deeply about building structures and pathways that outlast moments and movements, systems that help families flourish spiritually across generations.
Storytelling remains central to everything I do. Not as performance, but as worship. I believe stories have the power to name what people feel but cannot yet articulate, to awaken hunger, and to point hearts back to God with honesty and hope. If my work does anything, I hope it reminds families that God is not distant, discipleship is not impossible, and the home is still sacred ground.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The road hasn’t been smooth. The biggest struggle moving away from the pressure of “unlearning”, and leaning into the joy of rediscovery and new adventures.
Growing up in an environment where everyone was well intentioned, but also ill equipped, created a challenging path. I learned very early that while it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to harm one. I don’t doubt that my parents, teachers, and ministry leaders wanted the best for me. But because they were not fluent in the rhythms of true biblical discipleship, my curiosity slowly turned into skepticism. My perpetually unanswered questions turned into resentment. My determination turned into rebellion.
Discipleship wasn’t a culture I was formed in. It was either a foreign concept, or treated as an inconvenience.
So then, when God brings you to truth, it’s the most beautiful thing imaginable. But that paradigm shift can also be crushing. The questions that surface are honest and heavy: Why didn’t anyone show me this? Why didn’t anyone teach me this? Why didn’t anyone help me in the ways that mattered most?
Over time, as I became aware of my own flaws and deficiencies, grace began to flow. Compassion followed. I was able to forgive others because I learned how deeply I needed forgiveness myself, and thank God he had already extended it to me.
That has been the work done in me: learning to lean into the joy of rediscovery, embracing the excitement of new adventures, and allowing forgiveness to flow freely.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Hawkins House is the first Christian family development company built to provide comprehensive, discipleship pathways that are age-group-specific, beginning with mom and dad. We believe parents were never meant to outsource discipleship, and our work is designed to help them get back in the driver’s seat of spiritual leadership in the home.
Hawkins House exists to equip families to build, sustain, and live within a culture of discipleship, not as another program to manage, but as a way of life. Through intentionally designed pathways that grow with each stage of the family, we support parents as they disciple their children with clarity, confidence, and consistency. We are for all things family and discipleship, serving as a central hub for faith formation that restores the home as God’s primary environment for spiritual growth.
Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
Growing up, I was deeply introspective, even if that wasn’t always obvious from the outside. I spent a lot of time thinking, observing, and trying to make sense of the world around me. At the same time, I was very expressive. I was the class clown more often than not, using humor as a way to connect, deflect, and survive spaces that didn’t always know what to do with me.
Creativity came naturally. I was drawn to music, stories, and anything that allowed me to imagine something beyond what was right in front of me. I was passionate and driven, but often misunderstood. I asked a lot of questions, challenged assumptions, and wasn’t content to simply accept things because that’s how they’d always been done.
That boldness sometimes showed up as defiance, especially when I felt boxed in or unheard. I was willing to challenge the status quo, even when it got me into trouble, because something in me resisted shallow answers and surface-level explanations. Looking back, I can see that the traits that caused tension early on were also clues to the calling that would eventually take shape later in life.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://hawkinshousecfd.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/malcolmhawkins/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMalcolmHawkins/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolm-hawkins887/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@themalcolmhawkins
