Charles Meade
Charles Meade (December 24, 1916 – April 10, 2010) was the founder of a church first called End Time Ministries, later Meade Ministries based in Lake City, Florida.
Meade was born to a farming family in Oil Springs, Kentucky (west of Paintsville), the ninth child of his mother According to church literature he was the twelfth of fifteen children.
As a young man, Meade served in the United States armed forces on the front lines in World War II According to church literature he was seriously injured more than once. During the early 1970s Meade began to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to various groups of young people in their late teens and early twenties. They met in living rooms, garages and various meeting places throughout the United States.
He founded End Time Ministries (later Meade Ministries, Inc.) In 1984, he relocated his ministry from South Dakota and Indiana to Lake City, Florida.
Meade was married twice, first to Marie Meade who died on October 24, 1985, and then in November 1985 to Marlene Helen Malthesen.