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Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by phymeon(m): 11:50am On Dec 17, 2014 |
T. D. Jakes Personal details Birth name Thomas Dexter Jakes Born June 9, 1957 (age 57) South Charleston, West Virginia , U.S. Nationality United States Spouse Pastor Serita Ann Jakes Occupation Apostle, Prophet, Bishop, and Author[b]T. D. Jakes Personal details Birth name Thomas Dexter Jakes Born June 9, 1957 (age 57) South Charleston, West Virginia , U.S. Nationality United States Spouse Pastor Serita Ann Jakes Occupation Apostle, Prophet, Bishop, and Author[/b]T. D. Jakes Personal details Birth name Thomas Dexter Jakes Born June 9, 1957 (age 57) South Charleston, West Virginia , U.S. Nationality United States Spouse Pastor Serita Ann Jakes Occupation Apostle, Prophet, Bishop, and Author Thomas Dexter "T. D." Jakes, Sr. (born June 9, 1957) is the Apostle/Bishop of The Potter's House , a non-denominational American megachurch , with 30,000 members. T. D. Jakes' church services and evangelistic sermons are broadcast on The Potter's Touch, which airs on the Trinity Broadcasting Network , Black Entertainment Television,[1] the Daystar Television Network, The Word Network and The Miracle Channel in Canada. Other aspects of Jakes' ministry include an annual revival called "MegaFest" that draws more than 100,000 people, an annual women's conference called "Woman Thou Art Loosed", and gospel music recordings. Early life TD 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 1981. In 1982, Jakes became the pastor of the Greater Emanuel Temple of Faith, a small, Montgomery, West Virginia independent Pentecostal church with about ten members. Over the next few years, the church grew, drawing an integrated congregation that helped increase Jakes' renown as a speaker and pastor. He moved the church twice - from Montgomery to Smithers and then to South Charleston, where the congregation grew from about 100 members to over 300. During this time, he began a radio ministry The Master's Plan that ran from 1982-1985. He also became acquainted with Bishop Sherman Watkins, founder of the Higher Ground Always Abounding Assembly (an association of over 200 Pentecostal churches). Watkins ordained Jakes as a minister of the Higher Ground Assembly and encouraged him to start a church in the Charleston Area. Jakes also used this time to continue his education by studying through correspondence courses from Friends University. Jakes completed a B. A. and M.A. in 1990 and a D. Min. in 1995. After the 1990 move to Charleston, as his congregation grew, T. D. Jakes began to focus on the spiritual needs of the women in his church who had been abandoned and abused in their lives. He began a Sunday School class for them, "Woman, Thou Art Loosed," in which he encouraged the women to use their past pain as a foundation for new growth. He later started a similar class for men, which he called "Manpower." In 1993, Jakes self-published his first book, drawing on his experiences working with the women of his congregation. Woman,Thou Art Loosed would become Jakes' signature work and a national religious bestseller. He also began a new television ministry, Get Ready, which aired on Black Entertainment Television and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Also in 1993, Jakes moved his church yet again, to Cross Lanes, West Virginia. His ministry continued to expand, prompting the founding of the T. D. Jakes Ministries organization to oversee his work beyond the church itself. He continued to write and to publish, spreading his message of spiritual healing to new audiences. In 1994 he held the first of what would become a series of conferences for ministers and their spouses, "When Shepherds Bleed." In May 1996, Jakes moved his family and his ministry again, as well as fifty other families involved in his work, to Dallas, Texas. There he purchased Eagle's Nest Church, a large Dallas church. Renaming the church The Potter's House, Jakes continued his work. The Potter's House, which was a 5,000 seat auditorium and a 34-acre campus, had grown to a congregation of 14,000. Career In 1980, at age 23, Jakes became the pastor of Greater Emanuel Temple of Faith, a storefront church in Smithers, West Virginia with ten members. The congregation grew to encompass 100 members and was notable because it was racially integrated. In 1990 Jakes moved to South Charleston, West Virginia, and his congregation grew again, to 300 members. In 1993 he moved to Cross Lanes, West Virginia, where the congregation grew to more than 1,100 people, of whom 60 percent were African American and 40 percent were Caucasian. In 1994 T.D. Jakes Ministries was established as a non-profit organization that produced televised sermons and conferences. From 1995 to 1996, Jakes hosted "Get Ready," a weekly radio and television show with national distribution through syndication. In 1996 Jakes, his wife, children, and a staff of 50 employees relocated to Dallas, Texas, where Jakes founded the Potter's House, a non- denominational megachurch. Located on a 34- acre hilltop campus, the Potter's House features a 5,000-seat auditorium, as well as offices for employees and staff. Between 1996 and 1998, church membership grew from 7,000 congregants to 14,000. In 2005 Jakes accompanied President George W. Bush on his visit to the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In his book Decision Points, President Bush describes Jakes as "a kind of man who puts faith into action." On January 20, 2009, Jakes led the early morning prayer service for President Barack Obama at St. John's Church in Washington, D.C., according to NBC News. In the fall of 2009, Jakes planned on launching a secular daily talk show, syndicated through the CBS Television Distribution group; however, economic troubles in the industry may put his new program into jeopardy. Beliefs Although Jakes was converted and ordained within Oneness Pentecostalism, he revealed in an interview with Mark Driscoll in 2012 that he affirms the Trinity , although Jakes did not affirm the eternality of the individual persons of the Trinity which is denied by Oneness churches. Jakes is a strong advocate of abstinence [citation needed] and has made appearances on the subject ranging from Good Morning America to Dr. Phil . Awards and accomplishments Jakes has received numerous honors, including 13 honorary degrees and doctorates. He has also received Grammy and Dove Award nominations for Gospel album "Live at The Potter's House." PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly named Jakes among America's "Top 10 Religious Leaders." Time magazine featured Jakes on the cover of its September 17, 2001 issue with the provocative question, "Is This Man the Next Billy Graham?" Personal life When he was 24 in 1981, he married Serita Ann Jamison. [1] They have five children: Jermaine, Jamar, Cora, Sarah and Thomas Jakes, Jr. On the PBS program African American Lives , Jakes had his DNA analyzed; his Y chromosome showed that he is descended from the Igbo people of Nigeria .[6][7] According to his family history, it was suggested that he is also descended from them through his grandmother. Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._D._Jakes
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Re: Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by ammyluv2002(f): 11:55am On Dec 17, 2014 |
Re: Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by Nobody: 11:56am On Dec 17, 2014 |
Um... this is kinda really old news. And the whole DNA thing has been shown to be rather misleading. |
Re: Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by phymeon(m): 12:03pm On Dec 17, 2014 |
In case you can't read the long epistle, just go straight to personal life, the source is also there between; i be Yoruba boy before una start to tribalize the thread. |
Re: Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by RandomAfricanAm: 2:00am On Dec 18, 2014 |
Radoillo: How so? |
Re: Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by Nobody: 2:36am On Dec 18, 2014 |
RandomAfricanAm: Have a look at this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHjJJfhfRgs The bald black guy there (I can't remember his name) works (worked?) for the company that did the DNA test on T D Jakes, Ben Carson, Quincy Jones and all the other guys that featured on Skip Gates' "African-American Lives". Here he admits (after being pressed by the interviewer) that DNA testing only provides very, very, very little information about the region of Africa a tested African-American's ancestors originated from. Less than 0.1%, actually. In other words, T D Jakes could be 99.9% Ashanti, and less than 0.1% Igbo and Hausa, and only the 0.1% Igbo and Hausa would be detected in the tests. That is so minute as to be meaningless. Granted, T D Jakes has said that there were stories of Igbo ancestors in his family. But who knows how large that Igbo ancestry is, and (after centuries of interbreeding with other slaves and slave-descendants from all over West and Central Africa) to what extent that Igbo ancestry has been diluted? |
Re: Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by RandomAfricanAm: 4:00am On Dec 18, 2014 |
Before I reply further is this the totality of your argument/premise? |
Re: Amazing Discovery! Bishop T.D. Jakes Is An Igbo Man. by Nobody: 8:03am On Dec 18, 2014 |
This isn't enough? PS: Ignore the rubbish at the end about African-Americans being Native Americans. It isn't part of the interviews. The guy who put this on YouTube added that part. |
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