Suff. Bishop RoyC. Dawkins
Bio

Roy C. Dawkins was raised and educated in Kansas City, Kansas. He has been married to Charlene for 41 years. They are the proud parents of two sons, Anson and Eric, who are National Gospel-Recording Artists, “Dawkins and Dawkins,” and one daughter, Angela Bryant. Pastor and Sister Dawkins are also grandparents of four adorable girls, Kiristen, Ranan, Jaya, and Kennedy and a handsome grandson, Jude.

After serving as pastor of Mt. Zion Temple in Columbia, Tennessee for 10 years, God called Pastor Roy C. Dawkins to Steubenville, Ohio in 1985. The Lord has blessed his ministry for 24 years at Zion Temple. In 1989 he was elevated to the office of “District Elder.”

Pastor Dawkins received his Bachelor of Theology and Religious Education degrees in 1981 in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Masters Degrees in Theology and Religious Education in 1997. In August of 2005 he received his Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Ministry; in October of 2005 he received the Doctor of Divinity from Aenon Bible College, Indianapolis, IN.

Pastor Dawkins was consecrated as Suffragan Bishop in the Ohio
District Council on July 4, 2002. As Suffragan Bishop, he faithfully serves the 14 churches in the Southeast Region of the Ohio District Council of Pentecostal Churches, Inc. He is the Chairman of the ODC, a member of the Ohio District Council Executive Board of Directors, Liaison for the Ministers’ Wives and Widows Alliance of the Ohio District Council, serves on the Aenon Bible College Board, and the Budget and Finance Committee of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.

He is anointed and appointed for such a time as this; a true “Man of God.”

The Late Bishop Francis Smith
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ODC Christian Women's Auxiliary

Southwest Region Christian Women’s Meeting