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Charles Meade (December 24, 1916 – April 10, 2010) was the founder of a Christian church first called End Time Ministries, later Meade Ministries, based just south of Lake City, Florida.〔Barnard, Jackelyn (May 12, 2005) ("Former Endtimer Speaks Out" ) ''First Coast News'' (Jacksonville, Florida)〕 Meade was born to a farming family in Oil Springs, Kentucky (west of Paintsville), the ninth child of his mother.〔Lewan, Todd (2005) "Meade, the self-styled prophet: a man cloaked in lore and mystery" Associated Press, reproduced from the ''Daytona Beach News-Journal'' of 17 April 2005 at (this website ) by The International Cultic Studies Association; requires Microsoft's Internet Explorer〕 According to church literature he was the twelfth of fifteen children. As a young man, Meade reportedly 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, but there is no indication of this in his service record.〔 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 (now Mountaintop Ministries Worldwide) in 1984, he relocated his ministry from South Dakota and Indiana to Lake City, Florida. According to the church, God told Charles Meade that Lake City, Florida, would be the only place that believers could survive Armageddon. In a 1998 ''New York Times'' article about doomsday groups, writers Alex Heard and Peter Klebnikov explained Meade's beliefs about the apocalypse: Meade was married twice, first to Marie Meade who died of breast cancer on October 24, 1985, and then in November, 1985 to Marlene Helen Malthesen. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Meade」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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