Charley O'Daniel was born in Seminole, Oklahoma in 1949 to Ray and Betty O'Daniel of Maud, Oklahoma. His dad was a butcher, brought up in the family grocery store, while his mom was a farm girl. They brought him up to be a butcher as well. He graduated from Maud High School and attended Seminole Junior College for three semesters while working as a butcher. It was during this time that his girlfriend invited him to church with her and he got saved.

He later married his girlfriend, Trela Pack, and they started a  family in Maud. After being married only a few short weeks, Trela realized she was not saved and she trusted Jesus as her Savior. They lived in Maud and started attending Trinity Baptist Church where Charley was called to preach. During his time in Maud he supplied the pulpit and interim pastored for several churches in the surrounding area.

In 1975 he took  his wife and three children to Chattanooga, Tennessee to attend Tennessee Temple College under Dr. Lee Robertson. While there he ran a bus route, worked in a chapel in Dalton, GA and also worked in the visitation program at Highland Park Baptist Church. One of the greatest lessons God taught him in college was to live by Faith. Finishing his Bible College in three years with a Graduate of Theology degree, he returned to Oklahoma with his wife and four children to be youth director and a Christian school teacher at Western Oaks Baptist Church in Bethany, Oklahoma. After a year and a half as youth director, he sought God's place for him to Pastor.

In September 1980, he was called as Pastor to Maranatha Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The first Sunday in church there were nineteen people in attendance not counting his family, which had grown now to five, with one on the way. He pastored  for fifteen years until the church outgrew their building. Four more children came along, and now there are nine, three boys and six girls. As they were praying for what they should do for more space, God opened the door for them to merge with Western Oaks Baptist Church in Bethany, since their pastor was retiring. The first week in October 1995 the merge took place and he bacame pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church Of Western Oaks. Since then he has pastored fifteen more years. In over thirty years at Maranatha, he has consistently taught and trained people to work the bus ministry, go soul winnig, work in children's church, and give to faith promise missions. The church supports over 133 missionaries and mission works. Seven missionaries and their families have gone out of Maranatha Baptist Churche of Western Oaks planting churches in the United States and working on the foreign mission  field. He has lead the church in giving over $2 Million in his thirty years of pastoring. Today his greatest heroes are still missionaries around the world.