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Rev. Anthony Young was (born on 11 May 1967) and is known as an African American preacher, writer and civil rights activist. He was born in Port Angeles, Washington while his mother Marilyn Liles was visiting a family friend. As an infant he moved and was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan until he was 9 years old. During ages 7-9 he lived in a foster home (due to his biological mother's drug problems) with a Baptist missionary woman named Alberta Jackson (AKA Mama Jackson) who was original from Mississippi. During this period they attended the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Grand Rapids. This is where Rev. Young was first exposed to charismatic gospel worship. At age at he experience what is know as the quickening of the Holy Spirit and accepted Christ as his personal savior. Once his mother Marilyn Young a mix race woman was out of rehabilitation she took you Anthony to Tacoma Washington where he attend 5th and 6th grade later attending Jason Lee Junior high-school excelling in Football and Track and field. He later attend Lincoln high school graduating in 1985 at the newly built Tacoma Dome. During his high-school tenure he also was allowed attend a local radio voc-tech program at Bates technical School which later allowed him to develop a radio show on KTOY 91.7 FM. After graduating high-school he joined the U.S. Marine Corps reserves graduating from boot camp at Camp Pendelton, California in Dec of 1985. After returning from training he reconnected and moved to his father's (John) hometown of Hickory North Carolina to live with his grandmother Mrs. Lillian Liles. During his time in North Carolina he attended Morning Star Baptist Church. He later applied for active duty in the U.S. Marine and arrived to his first duty station at Camp Lejeune, NC in 1987 serving in "C" Company 2nd FSSG. After a year at Camp Lejeuene he applied and was accepted to U.S. Marine Security Guard School in Quantico, VA (Class 3-88) and serve at the following locations: U.S. Interest Section Havana, Cuba, U.S. Embassy Mexico, City, U.S. Embassy Harare, Zimbabwe and U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya.

After completing six plus year in the USMC he got out of the military and decided to live in the Washington DC area attend college at Southeastern University and. Later marrying and raising a family, at age 29 he began to work in ministry often citing a spiritually moving dream he had while a sleep on night in Africa about a great Exodus that took place near a mountain in Ethiopia. He explained that the dream was so vivid that he knew that it was indication that God's was calling him to service. He later joined a place of worship called Union Bethel AME Church in Brandywine, MD under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Harry L. Seawright. In 1999 he accepted his call while working as the head of the church newly established prison ministry. He was ordain and itinerant Elder at the Washington Conference int eh 2nd Episcopal District in 2008 later serving as the pastor to St. Paul AME Church in Dickerson, Maryland.

Links: http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/10012009/clinnew190309_32527.shtml,

Rev. Anthony Young
Rev. Anthony Young was (born on 11 May 1967) and is known as an African American preacher, writer and civil rights activist. He was born in Port Angeles, Washington while his mother Marilyn Liles was visiting a family friend. As an infant he moved and was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan until he was 9 years old. During ages 7-9 he lived in a foster home (due to his biological mother's drug problems) with a Baptist missionary woman named Alberta Jackson (AKA Mama Jackson) who was original from Mississippi. During this period they attended the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Grand Rapids. This is where Rev. Young was first exposed to charismatic gospel worship. At age at he experience what is know as the quickening of the Holy Spirit and accepted Christ as his personal savior. Once his mother Marilyn Young a mix race woman was out of rehabilitation she took you Anthony to Tacoma Washington where he attend 5th and 6th grade later attending Jason Lee Junior high-school excelling in Football and Track and field. He later attend Lincoln high school graduating in 1985 at the newly built Tacoma Dome. During his high-school tenure he also was allowed attend a local radio voc-tech program at Bates technical School which later allowed him to develop a radio show on KTOY 91.7 FM. After graduating high-school he joined the U.S. Marine Corps reserves graduating from boot camp at Camp Pendelton, California in Dec of 1985. After returning from training he reconnected and moved to his father's (John) hometown of Hickory North Carolina to live with his grandmother Mrs. Lillian Liles. During his time in North Carolina he attended Morning Star Baptist Church. He later applied for active duty in the U.S. Marine and arrived to his first duty station at Camp Lejeune, NC in 1987 serving in "C" Company 2nd FSSG. After a year at Camp Lejeune he applied and was accepted to U.S. Marine Security Guard School in Quantico, VA (Class 3-88) and serve at the following locations: U.S. Interest Section Havana, Cuba, U.S. Embassy Mexico, City, U.S. Embassy Harare, Zimbabwe and U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya.

After completing six plus year in the USMC he got out of the military and decided to live in the Washington DC area attend college at Southeastern University and. Later marrying and raising a family, at age 29 he began to work in ministry often citing a spiritually moving dream he had while a sleep on night in Africa about a great Exodus that took place near a mountain in Ethiopia. He explained that the dream was so vivid that he knew that it was indication that God's was calling him to service. He later joined a place of worship called Union Bethel AME Church in Brandywine, MD under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Harry L. Seawright. In 1999 he accepted his call while working as the head of the church newly established prison ministry. He was ordained and itinerant Elder at the Washington Conference in the 2nd Episcopal District in 2008 later serving as the pastor to St. Paul AME Church in Dickerson, Maryland.

Links: http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/10012009/clinnew190309_32527.shtml,