DR. RALEIGH WASHINGTON is President and CEO of Awakening The Voice Of Truth. He was the third recipient awarded “Doctor of Peacemaking” after Mother Teresa and Bishop Desmond Tutu by Westminster College. He is a Board Member and past President of The Road to Jerusalem, a ministry reconciling Jewish and non-Jewish believers. He is Pastor Emeritus of Rock of Chicago’s Our Salvation Evangelical Free Church, a multi-racial urban church that he founded and led. He joined Promise Keepers as Vice President of Reconciliation, retired as President/CEO, and currently is President Emeritus. He and Glen Kehrein co-authored Breaking Down Walls: A Model of Reconciliation in an Age of Racial Strife, the 1994 Gold Medallion winner of the Christian Booksellers Association. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, Dr. Washington earned the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Vietnam. Post-military, at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (now Trinity International University), he earned his Master of Divinity. Later, on the staff of Trinity International University, he developed and led the school’s Master of Arts in Urban Ministries. He holds honorary doctorates from Trinity, Westminster College, and Azusa Pacific University. He is still on numerous ministry boards, he also speaks at conferences and to universities, congregations, and corporations.

Military Bio:

Lt Col. Washington (Ret) is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and entered the Army as a second lieutenant in the ROTC program on his 1960 graduation from Florida A&M University, Tallahassee with his degree in Psychology.

After duty as commander of the Fort Ord Reception Company, Lt Col. Washington became Assistant Operations Officer with the 10th Infantry Division in Panama. In 1967 he was assigned as Chief, Officer Assignment Branch at Headquarters, U.S. Army, Vietnam, and returned in 1968 to become Deputy Adjutant General for the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C.

In 1972, Lt Col. Washington was named Chief, POW/MIA Branch of the Adjutant General’s Office in the Pentagon, and in 1975 he returned to Fort Bragg as Chief of the Personnel Management Inspection Team for the 18th Airborne Corps. The following year, he was named Commander, 18th Personnel & Administration Battalion, 1st Corps Support Command.

In 1978, he assume command of the San Juan District Recruiting Command in Puerto Rico and was appointed to Plans & Operations at Fort Sheridan’s Recruiting Command offices before leaving active duty.

Lt Col Washington holds the Bronze Star Medal. Meritorious Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign Medal.

Lt Col Raleigh B. Washington retired after 20 years of active duty.

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