![]() They had a daughter, Deidre, and son, Charles Jr.īrooks, a prolific evangelist, was a pastor of several churches in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio, from 1951 to 1963. ![]() At Oakwood, Brooks also met Walterene Wagner, whom he married on September 14, 1952. During his collegiate years, he edited Oakwood’s yearbook. At age sixteen, he felt the call to enter the gospel ministry.īrooks studied theology at Oakwood College (now Oakwood University) from 1947 to 1951. In 1940 Brooks, along with his mother and six sisters, was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 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. 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.
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