Rev. C. G. Weeks

Charles Garland Weeks was born March 18, 1908, in the Walnut Hill community of Louisiana’s Vernon Parish. He was one of four children born to Charles H. Weeks and Samantha Olevia Boyd Weeks. After graduating from Slagle High School, he attended Northwestern State University. Edna Marie Farrow was the great love of his life, his best friend, and partner for life. They were married on March 20, 1930.

The year 1930 was an eventful one for the newlyweds. Brother Weeks’s mother was ill, and the young couple moved to Walnut Hill to assist in her care. While there, their neighbors, David and Ida Whisby, invited the young couple to join them at a brush arbor tent revival being held nearby. It was to be a life-changing event, for it was in that first service that Marie received the Holy Ghost. A few months later, on the back porch of the Whisby home, Garland Weeks received the Holy Ghost as well.

Shortly after receiving the Holy Ghost, it became clear to C. G. Weeks that the call of the Lord was upon his life, and he stepped out to pursue ministry. He soon became a much-in-demand evangelist. They traveled miles and miles by bus and train, often with limited funds, committed to the calling neither could deny.

By the early 1940s, Bloomington, Indiana, had become home. The Weeks had settled down to a pastorate. Having lost a stillborn daughter in the fall of 1933, in the summer of 1941, they joyously welcomed Wanda Marie, a second daughter, into their world. Then a call came from a group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, wanting a pastor. From 1943 to 1953, the First Pentecostal Church of Baton Rouge flourished under the leadership of Pastor C. G. Weeks.

In 1953, with the retirement of S. L. Wise as Louisiana’s district superintendent, C. G. Weeks was elected to that position. He led the Louisiana District in repeated achievements of placing first in offerings to Sheaves for Christ, Mothers Memorial, Christmas for Christ, and others. In addition, he served on the board of Tupelo Children’s Mansion (TCM).

Camp Meeting 1978 found C. G. Weeks, at the age of seventy, somewhat weakened and utilizing a cane to steady his gait, but exuberant in his love of camp meeting and love of worship. Friday night he grabbed his familiar rubboard and spoon and stepped to the podium with Sister Shirley Rimes to join her in singing “Someday I’ll Walk on Gold.” When the song ended, turning around he made his way to the office. Once there, an ambulance was called and he was transported to a local hospital where he was diagnosed to be in cardiac arrest. Brother Weeks passed from this life on Saturday, July 8, 1978.