In 1999, she made history as the first Black woman to earn a DTh from Stellenbosch University, founded in 1866. She is the executive producer of the film, USF in Zambia: HIV/AIDS and Social Justice, 2012, the co-author of African Initiatives in Healing Ministry, UNISA 2011, the co-editor of Theology in the Context of Globalization: African Women's Response, EATWOT Women's Commission 2005 and has published numerous journal articles & book chapters. Lilian received the Jesuit Foundation Pedagogy Grant for the production of a film on HIV/AIDS in Zambia, the prestigious American Association of University Women Fellowship, the Dorothy Cadbury Fellowship, and Doctoral Fellowships from the World Council of Churches and the Methodist Church Global Ministry Women Division.