“He was a highly dedicated and successful evangelist and biblical preacher,” Wilson said. Wilson, president of the Adventist world church, paid tribute to Brooks as “an eminent and much-loved senior statesman in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.” “Please keep my mother and family in prayer,” he said in an e-mail. June 5 in Laurel, Maryland, said his son, Charles D. Brooks Jr. Brooks, led a 60-year ministry that resulted in more than 20,000 baptisms on six continents and was known for its innovative methods of embracing new media to spread the gospel, including through the Breath of Life television ministry, where Brooks served as founding speaker for 23 years.īrooks, who disclosed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, died at 4:30 a.m. Brooks, one of the foremost Seventh-day Adventist evangelists of the 20th century, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Sunday. Updated June 8 with funeral information, including livestreaming.Ĭharles D.
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