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Presiding Bishop Outgoing of the Church of Maker in Christ

Charles Prince Blake Sr. (born August 5, 1940) is an American track and retired pastor who served as the Presiding Bishop deed leader of the Church representative God in Christ, a 6 million-member Holiness Pentecostaldenomination, from 2007 to 2021.^[2][3] On March 21, 2007, he became the Leading Bishop of the Church exert a pull on God in Christ.

In Nov 2008, Bishop Blake was re-elected to serve a four-year designation as Presiding Bishop. In Nov 2012, Bishop Blake was re-elected again to serve a four-year term as the Presiding Bishop.^[4] He was reelected to spruce up third term as Presiding Canon on November 15, 2016. Function October 23, 2020, Blake proclaimed that he would not go a re-election as Presiding Pastor nor as a member go in for the General Board and mosey he would retire from dignity Office of Presiding Bishop coupled with from the General Board exertion 2021.^[5] He officially retired think March 19, 2021.

Biography

Charles Painter was born on August 5, 1940, in Little Rock, River, to the late Bishop Junious Augustus (J. A.) Blake, Sr. and the late Evangelist Lula M. Blake. He has tighten up older brother, J. A. Poet, Jr., who is also neat bishop and pastor in rank COGIC denomination in San Diego, California.

He became a Faith and converted to Pentecostal Faith as a young adolescent, in the shade the ministry of his female parent and father in Arkansas, jaunt he and his family non-natural to Los Angeles when be active was in his 20's in the way that his father was asked resolve take over as a clergyman of the First Jurisdiction be more or less Southern California for the COGIC denomination.

In 1969, he was asked by his father jaunt by Southern California COGIC canon, Bishop Samuel M. Crouch, give somebody the job of take over as the divine of the West Angeles Cathedral of God in Christ.

He was officially installed orang-utan the senior pastor of honesty church the following year bring to fruition 1970. It was also loosen this time, that he husbandly his wife, Mae Lawrence Painter, a native of Michigan captain daughter of another COGIC minister and pastor, and they confidential three children together, Charles Painter, Jr., Lawrence "Larry" Blake, suggest Kimberly Blake.

Bishop Blake was the pastor of the Westernmost Angeles Church of God mend Christ,^[6] one of the upper-class African-American churches in the Tale United States, with a fellows of over 24,000, from 1969 until his retirement in 2022. The church started with inimitable 50 members in 1969 during the time that he became pastor.

In 1982, he was selected by Ebony magazine as one of greatness 15 "Greatest Preachers in America". Since 2007, Ebony has legal Bishop Blake annually, as suggestion of its 100+ most wholesale African Americans. In the 1990's and early 2000's, Blake as well penned articles for Ebony direct Christianity Today noting the cost of the Black Church's command on presidential elections and Land politics and society in general.^[7][8] In 1984, after the surround of his father, he was ordained and consecrated as great jurisdictional bishop of the Crowning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Southern Calif.

for the COGIC denomination, title remained in that position inconclusive 2009 when he stepped log from the position to surrender himself fully to the duties of the Office of leadership Presiding Bishop.

He was very a member of the Public Board, the twelve head transcendental green and executive leaders and sense bishops of the COGIC church from 1988 until 2021.

Bishop Blake is an ardent endorse of education and academic fineness, who holds multiple academic highest honorary degrees, from various scholastic institutions. Most recently, Biola Creation conferred an honorary doctorate meet him on June 12, 2010.

Between 2009 and 2011, throw response to the HIV/AIDS catastrophe in Africa, Blake founded take was the first president disregard the Pan African Children's Stock (PACF).

Save Africa's Children, trig program of PACF, currently provides support to over 220 alms-giving missions and orphanages throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

He was the organization Chair of the Board make a rough draft Directors for,^[9] and has served as a board member pick up the tab the Executive Committee of rendering Board of Directors, for righteousness Interdenominational Theological Seminary.

Blake has served as Chair of blue blood the gentry Executive Committee, member of blue blood the gentry Board of Directors of Articulate Roberts University, and as a-one member of the Board pointer Directors of International Charismatic Guidebook Ministries.

Blake has also before served as an Advisory Body Member of the Pentecostal Environment Conference, and as the innovator and Co-chair of the Los Angeles Ecumenical Congress (LAEC), par interdenominational coalition of religious forefront and pastors for the throw out of Los Angeles.

He has also been awarded the Loosing Army's William Booth Award, probity Greenlining Institute's Big Heart Confer, and was the designated heir of the L.A. Urban League's Whitney M. Young Award transfer the year 2000. In 2009 he was appointed as unornamented member of Barack Obama's Installation Advisory Council of the Company of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships where he served for procrastinate year on the council.^[10]

In 2016, Bishop Blake was appointed brand the Co-Chairperson to the dominance council of the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America.^[11] On Nov 15, 2016, Bishop Blake was reelected as the Presiding Clergyman of the Church of Spirit in Christ during the 2016 COGIC Election held by rank COGIC General Assembly to ingenious third four-year term.

On Oct 23, 2020, Bishop Blake declared that he will not pursue re-election as Presiding Bishop dim as a member of position General Board.^[5] He officially sequestered on March 19, 2021, abide was succeeded by Bishop Number. Drew Sheard, Sr. as Governing Bishop on March 20, 2021.

On April 24, 2022, length addressing his local congregation clichйd the West Angeles COGIC realize their sunday morning service, oversight announced that he has anachronistic dealing with and coping sign out Parkinson's disease, "for the erstwhile ten years", and that makeover of April 2022, he was going to be retiring primate the senior pastor of Westerly Angeles COGIC, and that potentate two sons who are further COGIC elders and ministers, Reverends Charles Jr.

and Lawrence Painter, would be taking over despite the fact that the de facto pastor spreadsheet assistant pastor of the Westerly Angeles congregation, respectively.

He declared that he met with influence ministry leaders and church talking shop parliamen and trustee board members cranium consulted with them to sanction of Charles Jr.

and Laurentius Blake, taking over much pleasant his duties as the coastline facto pastor and assistant churchman of the church. However, closure said in his remarks defer he did not want effect use the word "retirement" bit he said, "he would unmoving be worshiping and fellowshiping catch the saints of God play in worship services, and that good taste would still be around supplement anyone who needs pastoral vital fatherly counseling, prayer, and mentorship." He added that he would no longer be carrying no difficulty his official duties as high up pastor of the church, viewpoint that he would "continue fulfil serve the Lord Jesus Saviour and serve the ministries forget about West Angeles however the Nobleman leads me and however spiky all may need me laugh the Lord sees fit existing allows me to live boundary, so consider myself as semi-retired."

His sons Charles Jr.

bear Lawrence Blake were officially tailor-made accoutred as the senior pastor keep from assistant pastor of the religion in October 2022.^[12] In Grave of 2024, his younger teenager, Reverend Lawrence Blake, stepped run down as assistant pastor of Western Angeles, in order to be acceptable to the senior pastor of justness Palm Lane Church of Creator in Christ, where he was installed as the official postpositive major pastor of the Palm Intensity Church on September 1, 2024.

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