The Rev. Darrell Thomas of San Antonio, Texas, will deliver the keynote address Feb. 11 [THURSDAY] at the Black Heritage Banquet at East Central University. The ECU Association of Black Students will host the banquet at 7 p.m. in the Stanley P. Wagner Ballroom in ECU's Memorial Student Union.
The theme of this year's banquet is "United We Stand to Fulfill the Dream."
The banquet is open to the public. Tickets are $10 per person. For banquet information, tickets and reservations, contact Stephanie Cooper at 559-5234 or Carla Harlan at 559-5534 by 5 p.m. Wednesday [Feb. 9].
Thomas is pastor of the Rock of Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Converse, Texas. He was called to the gospel ministry in 1993 and was licensed and ordained in 1997. He has been ministering for more than 10 years.
He has a bachelor's degree in systematic theology from the Guadalupe Baptist Theological Seminary in San Antonio. He and his wife, Reine, have four children.
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