Charles Eugene Amos, born August 30, 1925 to Charley Leo Amos & Letha Alzada (Henson) Amos in Purdy, Missouri. He went to school in Butterfield, Missouri. His parents had raised him in a Christian home, and at the age of 10 he asked Jesus Christ to be the Lord of his life during a revival at Butterfield Baptist Church and was baptized in a creek. At the age of 16 his family moved to Oklahoma City where he started working at the Guaranty Laundry. Two years later he met the woman that would become his wife, Juanita Burton, who was working at the same laundry. After dating for only a month an a half they were married by Dr. Williams, pastor of the First Baptist Church of OKC on October 17, 1943. He had just turned 18 and she was almost 21. Charles was a bus driver for Nichols Hills Bus Company for several years. He had stopped going to church and their marriage was rocky. At the age of 23, due to ill health, he was on his death bed, at that time the Lord convicted him and he realized he needed to rededicate his life back to God and start serving Him. They had their first child in July of 1949 and named her Shirley. Soon after she was born, he started going on Saturday evenings with W.E. Cook, pastor of Downtown Baptist Church, to the Grace Rescue Mission. Bro. Cook had started the mission several years earlier located in downtown Oklahoma City on Reno street. They would minister to men who were homeless and alcoholics. He felt the Lord calling him to preach as he knelt beside a man who he had shared the gospel with. He received his diploma with the Baptist Bible Institute and attended night classes at OBU, where his name is in their alumni book. Two weeks after he had been called to preach in 1950, God called him to pastor his first church, which was Banner Baptist in Lindsay, OK. He would drive the bus for Nichols Hills during the week, but then would drive to Lindsay on Wednesday evenings and Sundays from northwest Oklahoma City where they lived. He moved the church to a new location up on a hill, and in the 18 months as pastor of that church it grew from 10 members to 108. God called him in 1952 to Beulah Baptist Church on NW 9th & Harris with 60 members. Again, he felt the church needed to move to a different location to be able to reach more of the community. The church was moved to NW 13th & Meridian on 5 acres and they renamed the church to Meridian Ave. He led the church in five building programs, in which he helped with building two of them. Membership grew to over 700 during his 14 years as pastor there. During his ministry he preached revivals throughout the world & held crusades, twice in Spain, once in the Philippines, and twice in Turks & Caicos Islands to help missionaries Jim & Betty Cooper, who had become dear friends to him & his wife. He also went on mission trips to Jamaica, Bahamas, & Mexico. Then in 1966 God called him to 1st Southern Baptist Church in Colton, California where Bro. Warren Terry had given his name to consider as their pastor. He served there for 3 1/2 years. During that time he helped the church move to a new location. The membership grew from 120 to over 400. In 1969 he was called to Rancho Village Baptist Church in Oklahoma City where he was their pastor for 21 years. He led the church in several building programs. He served as Chaplain for the Oklahoma City Fire Department for several years in the 90's. He taught 9 years in the Baptist Bible Institute, and served as President during one of those years. This was a program developed by Oklahoma Baptist University to help new pastors. He served as President of Pastor's Conference for the Oklahoma Baptist Association for four years and was always active on various committees with the association. He loved being with the youth at all the churches he pastored and would drive the big bus on several choir and mission trips. Every summer for 35 years he would go to Falls Creek with the youth and taught Bible classes. After retiring as pastor in 1990, God called him to serve as Associate Pastor, Educational Director, & Senior Adult Minister to South Lindsay Baptist Church for 6 years. In 1996, him and his wife went back to Rancho Village Baptist Church to serve as the associate pastor and was awarded Pastor Emeritus while he was on staff until 2012. He became chaplain at Sommerset Assisted Living in 2007 where he led church services on Sunday afternoons and Bible Study on Wednesday mornings for 5 years during the time he lived there with his wife, who had Parkinson's. Throughout his ministry God would speak to him with what he thought was impossible. He would say to God, "I can't do that" and God answered, "you can't but I can." Preceded in death by his parents, Charley and Letha Amos; wife of 66 years, Juanita (Burton) Amos; sisters, June Charlene Amos and Eula Mae Robinson; brother, William (Bill) Amos; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Winford & Mary Burton, Oweata (Burton) Petty, Pat (Burton) and Hurshell Baker, Billy Rae and Joyce Burton and nephew, Todd Amos. He is survived by his daughter, Shirley Tyson and her husband, Rob; grandson, Ryan Tyson; granddaughter, Steffanie Tyson; great grandson, Jayden Tyson; sister, Faye Hayes and her husband, Oliver (Skip); brother, Rex Amos and his wife, Diana; several nieces and nephews, along with many cousins and a host of friends.