We Have Sad For Bishop Charles Blake After Stepping Down

For 53 years, Bishop Charles E. Blake Sr. led West Angeles Church of God in Christ. For 13 of those years, he simultaneously served as Presiding Bishop of the entire COGIC denomination. In this video, we cover his remarkably peaceful national and local leadership transitions, the decade-long Parkinson's diagnosis he kept private before finally revealing it in 2022, his son Charles Blake II stepping into the pulpit at West Angeles, his son Lawrence Blake building his own thriving ministry at Palm Lane COGIC, and the family's devastating loss when Lawrence passed away from cancer in January 2026 at just 54.