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Local pastor named Person of the Year for upcoming banquet
Greg Jones will be named the Person of the Year during Friday's 24th Annual Black History Banquet.
The event will be held at the Elks Lodge at 325 S. 3rd West St.
The theme is "At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington."
The social hour begins at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $30 per person. Dress is "business attire."
For more information, call 587- 3227. Those attending are asked to RSVP by today.
Major Jones serves as the 124th Medical Group's administrative officer, Gowen Field Air National Guard, in Boise. He represents the 124th Medical Group commander as a member of the 124th Fighter Wing commander's senior staff.
Jones also has been senior pastor for the last 21 years of Liberty Christian Fellowship Church, a non-denominational, multi-ethnic ministry.
Major Jones enlisted is the United States Air Force in February 1986 and attended Basic Training in San Antonio, Texas.
He completed Inventory Specialist Technical Training from Lowry Training Center in Denver, Colorado in the same year.
In 1991, Jones was assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base and was assigned to the F-16 Aircraft Maintenance Unit of the 189th Fighter Squadron.
While assigned to Mountain Home AFB, Jones won numerous awards, including: NCO of Quarter, Distinguished Graduate and Citizenship Award during Airmen Leadership School and John Levitow Award from the NCO Academy at Goodfellow AFB, Texas, in 1998.
In 1999, Jones separated from active duty and joined the Idaho Air National Guard. He received his commission in 2002.
Pastor Jones is married to and in ministry with Diane for the past 21 years. Together they have one daughter, Jireh, 12.
The featured speaker for the evening will be state Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb, (D -- Dist. 19), the first African-American elected to the Idaho Legislature.
Buckner-Webb was elected to the Idaho Senate in November of 2012 after serving one term in the House of Representatives. She is a fifth-generation Idahoan and long-time Boise activist and businesswoman
Buckner-Webb is founder and principal of Sojourner Coaching, a consulting firm providing coaching, organizational development and motivational presentations.
Her international business background includes positions as Culture and Diversity Global Program Manager and Americas Region Sales and Marketing Development Manager for computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard.
Buckner-Webb has served on the boards of a variety of community organizations, including the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Planned Parenthood of Idaho, the March of Dimes, and others.
She also co-founded the Idaho Black History Museum and TVTV Public Access Television.
Buckner-Webb graduated from George Fox University with a B.A. in Management and Organizational Leadership and earned a Master of Social Work degree from Northwest Nazarene University.
The banquet will celebrate two major anniversaries in the Civil Rights movement, both of which changed the course of the nation -- the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago, and the 1963 March on Washington, 50 years ago.
Those events were the culmination of decades of struggle by individuals, both famous and largely unknown, who believed in the American promise that "this nation was dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Separated by one hundred years, they are linked together in a larger story of freedom and the American experience, a spokesperson for the committee said.