Charles Farag was born in Cairo, Egypt to a Christian family in a Muslim culture.  His father, through the influence and leadership of Baptist missionaries in Egypt, converted from the Coptic Orthodox faith of his family to become a Baptist believer and eventually a minister.  Charles parents and his siblings were then considered outcasts and disowned by their Orthodox family and discriminated by the Muslim community.

In 1971, at age 20, Charles entered the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo.  While working and attending school Charles pastored at his first church, the Shobra Baptist Church in Cairo. In September of 1973 Charles would be betrothed to his future wife, Susan Rizkallah.  They married in July of 1974. 

After graduating from seminary with a BS in Theological Studies, Rev. Farag was called in 1981 to pastor a church in Hadath, Lebanon.  Because of the Civil War in Lebanon in February of 1984 at the age of 33, Charles, Susan and their two young sons, Michael and David, escaped to Cyprus by boat, from Cyprus to Egypt and then, finally, in April of 1984 from Egypt to the United States where they made New Jersey their home.In New Jersey.

Rev. Farag began a small volunteer church ministering to the Arabic community.  He worked many odd jobs, including driving a taxi cab in New York City, to support his family until he could obtain the support of the Southern Baptist Convention.  While working in a restaurant in Edison, NJ, Charles received a telephone call from the late Bill Hern, who formerly served as a Baptist missionary in Cairo, Egypt and had know Charles since he was a child. 

Rev. Hern extended the invitation to Charles to come and lead an Arabic ministry in Raleigh, NC. In October 1986, Rev. Charles Farag began work with Trinity Baptist Church to minister to the Arabic community of the Triangle.

In 1988, Rev. Farag began airing a television ministry entitled, “Prophet or God,” to reach Muslims with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This ministry continued to air for 12 years.

Rev. Farag graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC in 1989 where he received a Master of Divinity degree

In May of 2008, the door has opened again to begin a new television program to the Arabic population around the world. This new program, “How to Be Like Jesus” will be aired via the satellite of the “Aramia” and other Arabic networks.