Public Speaker at General Council of the Assemblies of God
Springfield, Missouri Area
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- Public Speaker at General Council of the Assemblies of God
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- Team Leader at US Army
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- Lake Land College
- Park Crest Calvary Temple Assemblies of God Masters Commission
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Blake Leitch’s Summary
In only seven months on the ground in Iraq, Blake Leitch escaped the potentially deadly blasts of improvised explosive devices 26 times. The 27th time he was not so fortunate.
“It was at night and someone had to be the eyes of the Bradley [a large tank],” says Leitch, 26. “To do that, I stood in the turret giving our driver directions.”
Leitch doesn’t recall feeling or hearing the blast from the roadside bomb that disabled the mammoth Bradley. The force of the explosion knocked him out and shoved him down the turret. When he came to, he was covered in blood.
“I thought my number had been drawn,” he says. “But I quickly realized I was going to live — with a face messed up by shrapnel.”
He was medevaced to Baghdad. There, he underwent surgery to remove shrapnel embedded in his cheek and nose. Miraculously, he says, the shrapnel missed his eyes.
“I should have been killed, but not dying that night was God’s way of saying, ‘I am here and I am protecting you,’ ” says Leitch. He was on the cusp of learning a few more spiritual lessons that would change the course of his life.
KIRK NOONAN is managing editor of Today’s Pentecostal Evangel
Blake Leitch’s Experience
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Public Speaker
General Council of the Assemblies of God
(Non-Profit; Religious Institutions industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
I have a desire to communicate my testimony to veterans, active duty, and military families alike in hopes to motivate all parties to network together to make our soldiers job easier by preparing them in thier spiritual walk. Check out a write up from the "Today's Pentecostal Evangel" at http://tinyurl.com/tpeag
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Team Leader
US Army
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USA; Military industry)
July 1999 — July 2006 (7 years 1 month)
Blake Leitch’s Education
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Lake Land College
AAS , Business , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
- Activities and Societies:
- Student Ambassador
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Park Crest Calvary Temple Assemblies of God Masters Commission
Ministry 2006 — 2007
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