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Famed Adventist Evangelist C. D. Brooks Succumbs to Cancer
June 5, 2016: Pastor Charles D. Brooks, founding speaker for the Breath of Life television ministry and one of the most famous Adventist evangelists in the history of the denomination, died this morning after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. His ministry produced tens of thousands of converts, at least 15 congregations planted in American cities and hundreds of recorded sermons cherished by believers around the world.
Born in 1930 into a Methodist family, Brooks was raised in rural North Carolina and joined the Adventist Church with his mother and six sisters at ten years of age. He planned to get an education as a dentist when at age 16 he heard E. E. Cleveland, another famous Adventist evangelist, preach in tent meetings in Greensboro and had a revelation in which he heard God call him to the same kind of ministry.
Brooks was part of what Adventist historian Benjamin Baker calls “the fabled class of 1951” at Oakwood University, along with a number of other African American lea
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“Image Ownership: Benjamin Baker”
Charles Decatur (C.D.) Brooks, field secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on July 24, 1930, the tenth child of Marvin and Mattie Brooks. Brooks was raised on a 40-acre farm outside of Greensboro where his Methodist family grew a variety of produce and raised livestock and poultry. In 1940 Brooks, along with his mother and six sisters, was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. At age sixteen, he felt the call to enter the gospel ministry.
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Brooks studied theology at Oakwood College (now Oakwood University) from 1947 to 1951. During his collegiate years, he edited Oakwood’s yearbook. At Oakwood, Brooks also met Walterene Wagner, whom he married on September 14, 1952. They had a daughter, Deidre, and son, Charles Jr.
Brooks, a prolific evangelist, was a pastor of several churches in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio, from 1951 to 1963. From 1963 to 197
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C.D. The Man Behind the Message
Biography
BY: Harold L. Lee and Benjamin Baker
SYNOPSIS:
If you have heard C. D. Brooks preach, it was most certainly an unforgettable experience. His distinct voice trumpets truth with an authority rarely seen in today's pulpits. The stories he skillfully weaves thrill the imagination and bring conviction to the heart. Loving yet uncompromising, Brooks delivers the Adventist message without apology. His appeals to accept Jesus reverberate in the mind long after they are over.
With a 60-year ministry spanning the ghettos of the city, sands of the desert, and islands of the sea, C. D. Brooks has led more than 15,000 souls to Christ on six continents and dozens of countries.
A media trailblazer, Brooks has spread the gospel through every type of media, including cassette, radio, television, and Internet. For 23 years this founding speaker of the Breath of Life Ministries telecast appeared in millions of homes across the globe, and is undoubtedly one of the greatest evangelists of the twentieth centu
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