1/3 – John Slade to Preach
Posted on December 26th, 2009
We welcome our own John Slade as our guest preacher on Sunday, January 3.
John has had an accomplished career in television, movies, and radio. He served as general manager, writer, and producer in television on both coasts. Programs he developed or produced include the first minority-oriented prime-time program North Star in Baltimore, the critically acclaimed Say Brother in Boston, and the children’s program, The Big Blue Marble. He was a radio announcer and producer in San Francisco and a talk show host in Washington, D.C. He produced the film Breaking the Chains of Bondage, which centered on the first national demonstration in Washington, D.C. supporting the liberation struggles in southern Africa.
He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army. As a military officer, he taught military science at Bowie State University in Maryland and at Georgetown and Howard Universities in Washington, D.C. Colonel Slade was Acting Chief of the National Guard Bureau in Houston and served on the National Guard Drug Reduction Board at the Pentagon.
Other accomplishments include marching with Dr. Martin Luther King on the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 and founding the fraternity Iota Phi Theta, Inc., about which he has written two books.
He continues to serve on a number of boards, including the Executive Council of the AARP in Washington, D.C.; the Board of Directors of the National Iota Foundation; and the Longwood University Board of Visitors. In addition, he currently is a lobbyist for the Association of Reserve Minority Service –Members (ARMS) and serves as the organization’s director.
He is married to Deborah Douglas-Slade and has one son, Kenyatta.
Jan. 4, 2010 UPDATE:
You can listen to Colonel Slade’s sermon, “Journey of Our Lives,” by clicking on this link.
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