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I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
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