Author Bio
Charles
Rosson began life in a small house in north eastern Arkansas just outside
Datto, Arkansas. He was the seventh child of six living siblings, born on
March 21, 1929 and the 3rd son of Thomas Walter and Lessie Rosson.
Later that year, Thomas Walter was already in Flint, Michigan finding employment with Chevrolet Motor Company and didn’t see his son Charles, until Lessie and the children could make the three day journey in approximately 3 or 4 months.
It was in Flint, Michigan the family began to establish their roots. Lessie Rosson was already a spirit filled believer, a first generation Pentecostal long before it was accepted as a normal religious practice. A pioneer, she had to develop a thick hide to brush away insults borne of ignorance and prejudice.
At 15 years old, young Charles was forced by his mother to attend a revival meeting. Little did he know his mother Lessie had received assurances from her heavenly Father that if she would get her boys Charles and Wayne to Church that night they would get born-again. Needless to say she did and they did. From Sunday the 12th till Friday the 18th, in time-honored Pentecostal fashion Charles sought to receive the Holy Ghost.
During those five days he brought his Bible to school with him and had begun reading daily. He found the promise of answered prayer in Luke 11: 13, “If you being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more your heavenly Father shall give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
That settled his resolve in his mind, if God wanted him to be filled with the Holy Spirit and he wanted to receive that gift, they ought to be able to get together. So Friday night after much wrestling with the flesh at a Pentecostal altar [wrestling until the flesh became worn out] he finally acquiesced and received his personal evidence of the Resurrection. The Holy Spirit filled him with the new awareness of things spiritual.
After being filled with the Holy Spirit, Charles was consumed with a passion for knowledge of God. He sat in the “amen corner” with the older men of their church. He read the Bible through in the final 7 or 8 months of the 10th grade. He became aware of the “call to preach” at age 17.
With that call, he also became aware of his need to train himself for that calling. At age 18, he went to their church school Lee College in Cleveland, Tennessee. His formative college years were spent from 1947-1949 at the Lee College; it became his beloved atmosphere of many treasured memories.
In 1949, Charles began ministry as an evangelist then met and married his wife Priscilla Teague. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rosson entered the pastoral ministry in 1953 and continued from North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan and South Carolina for more than 27 years.
During the latter years of their pastoral ministry the ministry of teaching was developed. Rev. Rosson’s introduction to the prophetic ministry did not begin until he was nearly 60 years old. He had little or no exposure to the prophetic ministry until he became acquainted with the ministry of Kenneth E. Hagin.
After reading every book he wrote and listening to hundreds of tapes by him and other Word of Faith ministers; he finally learned that he too could hear the voice of God. Since 1994, he has had a singular passion for prophesying to the Body of Jesus Christ.
In 1994, he started a special ministry of teaching young believers, prophets and prophetess’ to prophesy. That is still his driving force and mission today.
