Charles Meade

Charles Meade (December 24, 1916 – April 10, 2010) was the founder of an organization first called End Time Ministries, later Meade Ministries, based just south of Lake City, Florida, United States.

Meade was born to a farming family in Oil Springs, Kentucky, 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 reportedly served in the United States armed forces on the front lines in World War II.

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.

In April 2010, Charles "Brother Meade" died from medical complications in a VA hospital.

In December 2015, multiple women came forward stating that Meade had sexual intercourse with them from the age of 13 to their late 20s. This coupled with the gross negligence in the handling of church funds caused church membership to drop and the organization was rebranded Mountaintop Ministries Worldwide. Mountaintop Ministries Worldwide, formerly known as Meade Ministries and before that as End Time Ministries, was a group founded by Charles Meade and was located in Columbia County, Florida, just south of Lake City. The church was listed as nondenominational/independent by USA Churches.