Pastor Cd Brooks Sermons3/18/2021
Credit. Walter Arties By Sam Roberts July 6, 2016 C.D. Brooks, a leading Seventh-day Adventist evangelist who delivered the churchs message to millions as the founding speaker of the Breath of Life media ministry, died on June 5 in Laurel, Md.
He was 85. The cause was pancreatic cancer, the Seventh-day Adventist Church said. For six decades, Mr. Brooks conducted an evangelical campaign that was credited with converting tens of thousands and establishing 15 congregations in cities across the country. He spent 23 years broadcasting on Breath of Life, billed as the first black religious television program. Black Entertainment Television began distributing the program in 1989, aiming at blacks in the United States and the Caribbean. The church says it has about 1.2 million members in its North American Division, about 37 percent of whom are black. Mr. Brooks spoke at President Ronald Reagans inauguration; served as a pastor in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio; and converted hundreds in mass baptisms during campaigns in Washington, Brooklyn and Barbados. He retired from the Breath of Life ministry in 1997 for health reasons, but continued to preach. In 2013, he was named chaplain of the churchs North American Division. In the biography C. D.: The Man Behind the Message (2013), the authors, Harold L. Lee and Benjamin Baker, chronicled the spiritual awakening of a North Carolina farm boy who appeared destined for a career as a dentist until he attended a tent meeting run by E. Instead of repairing other peoples mouths, God has used Elder Brookss mouth to proclaim the eternal truths of the Word of God and thus repair peoples entire minds and bodies in preparation for the new earth, Ted N. C. Wilson, the president of the Seventh-day Adventist church, wrote in the foreword. Image C.D. Brooks in 2008. Credit. Keith Goodman Charles had thought that in his career as a dentist he was going to fight tooth decay, the authors added. Charles Decatur Brooks was born in Greensboro, N.C., on July 24, 1930, the 10th child of Marvin Brooks and the former Mattie Reaves, Methodists who had a 40-acre farm just outside of town. Six months after he was born, after nearly dying from surgery, his mother said she had a vision and heard a voice urging her to keep the biblical commandments. From then on, she began observing the Sabbath from midnight Friday to midnight Saturday. When Charles was 10, and his mother had read The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White, a founder of the church, the family began worshiping in an Adventist congregation. Soon after he graduated from high school, Mr. Brooks lingered alone at the end of a tent meeting, he recalled, when an overmastering impression came from the Lord that said to me, This is what I want you to do, and I will help you to make truth clear. When he told his mother about the message, he said, Mother said these words to me: Son, when you were born, I gave you to the Lord. He enrolled in Oakwood College (now Oakwood University), a historically black Adventist school in Huntsville, Ala., and in 1952, a year after graduating, ran his first evangelistic crusade, in Chester, Pa. He is survived by his wife, the former Walterene Wagner, whose father was a stalwart of black Adventism, along with two children, Charles D. Brooks II and Diedre Tramel; two sisters, Theresa Birden and Elois Brooks; and three grandchildren. In 1971 Mr. Brooks became a general field secretary of the General Conference, the churchs worldwide administrative body, which is headed by a president. Mr. Brooks continued to lead evangelistic meetings, having done so on six continents. I didnt want to go to Antarctica, he said, because there was no one to preach to. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Site Index Site Information Navigation 2020 The New York Times Company NYTCo Contact Us Work with us Advertise T Brand Studio Your Ad Choices Privacy Terms of Service Terms of Sale Site Map Help Subscriptions.
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