Aidsand F Riggins:
CLASS OF 1968
Centennial High SchoolClass of 1968
Compton, CA
Aidsand F's Story
Aidsand is from Compton, California. Aidsand's schools include Centennial High School. Aidsand later attended California State University, Fullerton (BA RELIGIONS STUDIES), American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, CA (Master of Divinity) and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond (Doctor of Ministry). In addition, Aidsand has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from three other universities. Aidsand works(ed) at American Baptist Home Mission Societies.
One of Aidsand's ,favorite quotes is:""Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our fellowship is in Jesus Christ alone, the more serenely shall we think of our fellowship and pray and hope for it." --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer".
More about Aidsand :"I am an ordained American Baptist minister serving as the Executive Director of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies and Chief Executive Officer of Judson Press, ministries located in Valley Forge, PA. I am married to an ordained minister, R...Expand for more
ev. Betty Wright- Riggins and we have three adult childrenâ¦Aidsand IV, Kevin Eugene and Imani Joy and are sharing in raising our grand daughter, Nyla. I love spicy food, good friends, history, biographies, Blues and gospel music. I have traveled to six continents and over 25 counties. I really miss my high school classmates, Leo Hurd (68) and Carl Gross(68) brothers beloved, who passed on to the heavenly reservation before me.
The teacher who impacted me most at "the Ten" was Carol Youngblood. Most people would not know that Ms Youngblood was a close personal friend to my family. My Mother, Elva S. Riggins, a senior teacher at Centennial at the time, was a mentor teacher to Ms Youngblood. As tough and tenacious as Ms Youngblood was in the classroom from Monday through Friday, she was an incredibly vulnerable and fragile human being when she visited the Riggins home or we visited hers on occasional weekends. I am still practicing lessons Ms Youngblood taught me 45 years ago. It is possible to be the consummate professional that staff, students and members you to be during business hours and yet be a simply, searching vulnerable person at important points in ones life.
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