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Gilliard to Address Groups in Germany
ATLANTA, GA (February 3, 2003) - Deric Gilliard of Commission Disciples Covenant
Church, a church plant in Tucker, Georgia, is traveling to six military
bases in Germany February 9-13 for speaking engagements during Black
History Month.
An intergovernmental affairs specialist for the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services regional office in Atlanta, Gilliard was invited to
Germany by the U.S. Army 1st Armored Division and Commanding Gen. Major
General Ricardo S. Sanchez in honor of its Black History Month Observance
2003. The 1st Armored Division is spread among several communities in
Germany: Wiesbaden, Wackenheim, Dexheim, Baumholder,
Giessen and Hanau.
Gilliard, who resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia, recently published the
second edition of Living in the Shadows of a Legend: Unsung Heroes and
Sheroes who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Many of the troops
he will speak to are being shipped out to the Middle East conflict later in
the month.
During recent months, Gilliard has had plenty of opportunities to discuss
his book and the 20 people he profiled as he learned about Dr. King and its
primary organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
After speaking at Savannah State University and Atlanta University in
Georgia, Gilliard was the first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday speaker at
Troy State University's Rosa Parks Museum and Library in Montgomery,
Alabama. A day later, on January 21, he spoke at Lincoln University, the
oldest black university in the nation in Philadelphia.
Gilliard is an Atlanta-born journalist who has written for USA Today
and
Time Magazine and served as director for SCLC, which was co-founded
by Dr. King in 1957.
A licensed minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church, Gilliard was part
of Team Africa, an eight-person contingent that traveled to Congo last
March to minister to those who are part of the Covenant Church of Congo
(CEUM). Wife, Catherine, is on the executive board of the Evangelical
Covenant Church and chairs the World Mission board. She is also secretary
for the African American Ministers Association and is a licensed minister.
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