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African-American military involvement to be highlighted in screening

11/5/2012 - Elgin’s Second Baptist Church, the oldest African American church in town, has a graduate of West Point Military Academy and the United States Air Force Academy. It has people who retired from the armed forces with up to 30 years of service, a woman who reached the rank of major, a number of officers and plenty of active duty personnel.

Leon Montgomery, co-founder of the church’s Military Veterans Ministry, said he has only begun to find out what impressive military credentials people within his own congregation have since the ministry formed in March.

When he went to his pastor with the idea for a veterans group, they decided on a full-fledged ministry as a two-part opportunity.

“This is a waste of vital energy and resource if we don’t come together under the auspices of the church so we can do ‘inreach’ in the church and outreach in the community and work with some of the other organizations as they need help to reach out to veterans as well,” Montgomery said.

The veterans ministry will host a screening Friday of “For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots,” a documentary detailing the involvement of African American military men and women since the time of the Revolutionary War. read more>>>