Td jakes biography pdf directory

Bishop T.D. Jakes—megachurch pastor, best-selling author, playwright, and movie producer—was born Thomas Dexter Jakes on June 9, 1957, in South Charleston, West Virginia, to Ernest L. Jakes, Sr., owner of a janitorial service that had three offices and 52 employees, and Odith Patton Jakes, a home economics teacher who sold Avon products in her spare time.

Jakes and his older siblings, Ernest L. Jakes, Jr., and Jacqueline Jakes Sedgwick were reared in Vandalia, West Virginia. As a child, he attended the segregated Vandalia Elementary School. It was here that he began preaching to imaginary congregations and developing an interest in the ministry.

Td jakes biography pdf directory

At Garnet High School, he was nicknamed “Bible Boy.” And by 17, he knew that he was called to preach. Jakes left school to be caregiving for his invalid father and mother. After receiving the General Education Development Certificate (GED), Jakes enrolled at West Virginia State University in 1976.

He left, however, the following