Leandra Marshall Ministries International 

About Rev. Leandra Marshall

 

•  Founder and organizer of Leandra Marshall Ministries International, Inc., an international evangelistic ministry

 

• Women and Children Transformation Ministries, International Community Service Award Recipient (October 2019)

 

• Chairman, Friends of Capital School District Referendum Committee

               (Passed 130 million dollar referendum)

 

• Capital School District Board’s Outstanding Community Service Award Recipient

 

• Delaware State University Kent County Alumni Association Community Service Award

 

• DEMCO Lifetime Achievement Award

 

• Assistant Secretary, Interdenominational Minister’s alliance for Dover & Vicinity, an organization which represents 16 churches.

 

• First African American woman ever to receive the British Council’s Chevening Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom.

 

• The Recipient of Lincoln University’s coveted “Rising Star” award for outstanding alumni.

 

• The recipient of the 2005 State of Delaware Trailblazer’s Award voted upon by 4 of the 5 state agencies, headed by the Delaware Secretary of State’s office.

 

• Received her religious education from the following institutions: Palmer Theological Seminary, Eastern University, in Pennsylvania, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia, Calvary Baptist Institute, Dover, Delaware and Victory College of Ministry, Stone Mountain, Georgia. 

 

•  Received her education from the following institutions: Lincoln University, University of Delaware, and the University of Kent at Canterbury in Canterbury, England, United Kingdom.  Professor Marshall received numerous fellowships to study Chinese and Russian Languages. Professor Marshall studied at Kalinin Polytechnical Institute, Kalinin University, in the Former Soviet Union, and the Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China and at Norwich University’s Intensive Russian Language School.

 

• Vice President of External Relations, Outreach and Development for Delaware Multicultural and Civic Organization (DEMCO), a company she helped found 20 years ago.

 

• Outreach director and a research generalist of the Delaware State University’s University Center for Economic Development and International Trade (UCEDIT).  

 

• An adjunct faculty member in the History, Political Science and Philosophy Department and the Global Societies Program at Delaware State University.

 

• Prof. Marshall has traveled extensively to over 20 countries and has lived in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Asia.  She is in the process of publishing a collection of sermons, pertaining to social and economic justice issues in the 21st century and beyond.         

 

• Participated in a NATO conference in Brussels; presented position paper on the Bosnian Crisis

• Rhodes Scholar Nominee, State of Pennsylvania

• Valedictorian and Class President

• Russian/Chinese Award-Phi Sigma Iota Foreign Language National Honor Society

• Alpha Mu Gamma National Honor Society Award

• Benjamin Schwartz Award - demonstrating excellence in a Foreign Language

• Silas F. Taylor Memorial Prize - awarded for the highest G.P.A. in the graduating class

 

 Publications:

 “UCC ‘Rose to the occasion’ an affirmative action case”. UC News, September 2003

                     

Neoisolationism in America (M.A. Thesis) University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom, 1995.

                      

  “No Justice, No Peace: a Christian response to the impending war in Iraq”.  Voices and Visions Southeast Conference Newsletter, December, 2002.

                     

 Most Popular DVDS/CDS:  “Flowers seek the Son”(2009), “Dream Killers” (2009), “ Know God for Yourself”(2009) “ Dry Bones”(2011)  “A July 4th Message”(2011),  “The Power of Three”(2011