Td jakes biography wikipedia

Bishop T. Jakes is an American pastor, author and filmmaker.

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Born Thomas Dexter Jakes on June 9, , to the family of Ernest and Odith, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Jakes grew up in a community where it traditionally took a village to raise a child. At an early age, he was described as opinionated, stubborn, and driven—traits that some still ascribed to the adult Jakes. Odith, an economics teacher, taught all three of her children to cook, sew, and clean for themselves.

Ernest, a self-made businessman, was entrepreneurial long before entrepreneurs were common among blacks.

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Ernest developed a janitorial business from one mop and bucket to include 42 employees who cleaned everything in the Charleston area—from the West Virginia Capitol building to grocery stores. Although working full-time at a chemical plant job with Union Carbide, Jakes was also involved as the part-time music director at the Baptist Church where he grew up and as a part-time street evangelist.

When the Charleston-area chemical plant closed in , and his father died of kidney disease, Jakes devoted all his time to his ministry as an evangelist and church-planter in the Charleston area. Jakes grew up in Vandalia, West Virginia, attending local Baptist churches. He spent his teenage years caring for his invalid father and working in local industries.

Feeling a call to the ministry, he enrolled in West Virginia State University and began preaching part-time in local churches, but he soon dropped out of the university. He took a job at the local Union Carbide and continued preaching part-time. During this time he met his future wife, Serita Jamison. The couple married in In a few short years the church grew enormously.