Charlotte Fawver's Bio

Charlotte D. Fawver


Charlotte’s dad was a Baptist pastor. She remembers getting up each Sunday morning as a little girl and getting dressed for church. As soon as she was ready, she turned on Brother Oral Robert’s television program every Sunday morning. She was not accustomed to his style of ministry but she loved what she felt. She remembers being awakened many times to the voice of One calling her name. She knew that it was Jesus. She would lie quietly while God’s holy Presence flooded her. She wept quietly because of her awe of His holiness.

Charlotte attended the University of Tennessee for one year majoring in Business, following her high school graduation. She then married Robert and moved to Omaha, Nebraska where Robert served in the Air Force. They had their four children. She stayed at home with them and taught them the things of the Lord. Someone gave Charlotte the book, Exceedingly Growing Faith by Brother Kenneth Hagin. After carefully reading the book and comparing it to Scripture, she knew that this was what Brother Roberts had taught her many years before. She wanted what Brother Roberts and Brother Hagin had, the fullness of the Holy Ghost. Charlotte sought for more of God in prayer and in His Word for several months. Finally, in 1977, the Baptist boy and girl, Robert and Charlotte, were marvelously filled with the Holy Ghost and power. They were amazed to hear themselves pray in their heavenly prayer language. Charlotte trembled under the power for three days. She says that she has never been the same.

The Word of God came alive in Charlotte. She continued to search the scriptures. She made herself a pulpit and preached every day to the only one present, her little dog. The Baptist at her church said that women were to keep silent. She knew that she had to go tell the world about Jesus. After several months, the Lord called Charlotte to Care Inn Nursing Home. She ended up preaching there every week for four years. Her question was, “If God doesn’t call women, then why is He saving and healing people when I pray for them?” God also called her to the Hamblen County Jail. She ministered there each week for two years. She says that every woman accepted Jesus during those two years except for one, whom she wept for.

Charlotte always had a desire to graduate from college and especially from the Oral Roberts University. She would pray about it and imagine herself walking toward Brother Oral Roberts to receive her diploma. She would cry with much joy just thinking about it.
One day, her husband told her that he felt that she was suppose to go back to school. She knew it. She soon enrolled, and God has allowed her to receive a counseling degree with the Oral Roberts University. Her ministry had allowed her to counsel with many women, and she knew that there was so much more that she needed to learn. Since attending the school, she also acts as a volunteer Chaplain for one of the local hospitals. She has won many people to Jesus during that time. Also, during her studies with ORU, she received her license through a study program with the Church of God. She has received the Exhorters license, Ordained license, and the Ministerial Internship Program license. Charlotte teaches a class in her church on Sunday nights with over a hundred people in it, who are also hungry for God. She is presently working on her Masters with the Church of God Theological Seminary.

Charlotte and her husband, Robert, presently reside in Knoxville, Tennessee with their son, Cheles. Chaunta is married to Erik Hockman, and she is a graduate from Oral Roberts University. She is a registered nurse with Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center. Cheles is a student at The University of Tennessee. Their oldest son Chris is a computer engineer with a Masters Degree and is employed at Jewelry Television. He is married to Kyndra. Charese is their oldest daughter who is married to David Graves, and they have two little boys, Ryan and Brayden. Robert and Charlotte have a ministry called Bringing to Light. Charlotte has been ministering on radio Monday through Friday for 20 years. After being heard on short-wave Christian radio, the response to the program has come from nations all over the world. Charlotte has a weekly television program on WVLR-TV48 and Trinity Broadcasting Network. Even though Charlotte has this widespread ministry, she is quick to say that her greatest ministry is being wife and mother.

Charlotte has ministered in 14 nations. Her ministry has sent hundreds of Bibles into the world and thousands of Spanish Bibles to Cuba. Charlotte and her husband have personally smuggled Bibles and Christian literature into Cuba on three occasions. They have ministered three years with a medical team in Quito, Ecuador.

In 1978, Charlotte had an out-of-the-body experience. She had allowed fear to come into her life and two days following the birth of Chaunta, she died. Many believers were there and would not let her go. She came back into her body, fear was broken, and she is very much alive today. Charlotte knows first-hand the consequences of Satan’s device, fear; and shares her testimony to set others free.

Jesus appeared to Charlotte in a dream and laid hands on her. He told her that she would lay hands on those with cancer and they would recover. Truly, that has been confirmed many times. Charlotte has seen the blinded eyes open, the dumb speak, and the sick made well.

Charlotte begins her Bringing To Light programs with “Today is your day for victory in Jesus” and closes with, “I love you. I love you all.” Thousands of people are blessed daily by these words that come from her heart. Compassion has truly been a tool that Jesus has used in Charlotte’s life to deliver hurting people. In all of her ministry outreach, it is easy to see that her greatest desire is to reach the world for Jesus.

The Lord has opened many doors to the mission fields for Charlotte. Her dream is to hold crusades around the world. She realizes that one of the greatest missions fields is America. Her prayer is, “Father, allow me to preach Your Word on television nation-wide and go to the nations to gather in Your harvest, in Jesus’ name.”