Bringing Soldiers to God, and God to Soldiers

Lt. Col. Derrick Riggs’s life is not boring. Today he is serving in Afghanistan as command chaplain for NATO Special Operations and the Special Forces Joint Task Force.

Riggs’s parents, retired Col. Dwight Riggs and his wife, Kathy, reside in Columbia and are members of First Baptist Church, where their son was actively involved before being deployed overseas. An Army chaplain himself for 26 years, Dwight Riggs said his son is living his dream. “He always wanted to be an Army chaplain,” he said.

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