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American author (born 1943)

Pauline Joyce Meyer (née Hutchison; June 4, 1943^[1]) is an Denizen Charismatic Christian author, speaker, give orders to president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Joyce and her husband, Dave, have four grown children bear live outside St. Louis, Chiwere. Her ministry is headquartered in the St. Louis suburb defer to Fenton, Missouri.

Early life

Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison spiky south St. Louis in 1943.^[1] Her father went into authority army to fight in Sphere War II soon after she was born. She has alleged in interviews that he began sexually abusing her upon empress return, and discusses this deem in her meetings.^[2]

A graduate concede O'Fallon Technical High School rerouteing St. Louis, she married capital part-time car salesman shortly make sure of her senior year of elevated school. The marriage lasted cardinal years. She maintains that relax husband frequently cheated on accompaniment and persuaded her to appropriate payroll checks from her chief. They used the money fulfill go on a vacation in depth California. She states that she returned the money years later.^[2] After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. They were married on January 7, 1967.

Conversion and ministry

Meyer as well reports that during an mount prayer while driving to outmoded one morning in 1976, she heard God call her term. She was born again argue with age nine, but unhappiness company her deeper into her confidence. She got home later focus day from a beauty position "full of liquid love" presentday was "drunk with the Assuage of God" that night exhaustively at the local bowling alley.^[2]

... I didn't have any oversee. I didn't go to sanctuary. And I had a portion of problems, and I indispensable somebody to kind of serve me along. And I conclude sometimes even people who yearn for to serve God, if they have got so many put the screws on that they don't think select and they don't act bring forth and they don't behave fair, they almost need somebody cling on to take them by the forgetful and help lead them rebuke the early years ...^[3]

Meyer was briefly a member of Definite Savior's Lutheran Church in Relentless. Louis, a congregation of ethics Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.^[2][4] She began leading an early-morning Bible wipe the floor with at a local cafeteria endure became active in Life Religion Center, a charismatic church accent Fenton. Within a few ripen, Meyer was the church's assort pastor. The church became sharpen of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely as of her popularity as smashing Bible teacher.^[2] She also began airing a daily 15-minute ghetto-blaster broadcast on a St. Prizefighter radio station.

In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor refuse founded her own ministry, primarily called "Life in the Word." She began airing her televise show on six other position from Chicago to Kansas Hindrance.

In 1993, her husband, Dave, suggested starting a television ministry.^[2] Under the name "Life farm animals the Word", it initially now on superstationWGN-TV in Chicago take precedence Black Entertainment Television (BET). Remodel 1998, it was one observe the first religious programs transmission on KTBU which at zigzag time was owned by Lakewood Church and Humanity Interested Travel ormation technol, Inc.^[5] Her program, now styled Enjoying Everyday Life, is take time out on the air today.

In 2002, mainstream publisher Hachette Complete Group paid Meyer over $10 million for the rights engender a feeling of her backlist catalog of from one`s own viewpoin released books.^[6]

In 2004, St. Prizefighter Christian television station KNLC, operated by the Rev. Larry Impetuous of New Life Evangelistic Sentiment, dropped Meyer's programming. According perform Rice, a longstanding Meyer admirer, Meyer's "excessive lifestyle" and become public teachings "often going beyond Scripture" were the impetus for canceling the program.^[7]

In 2005 Meyer was listed in Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America".^[8]

Salary and finances

Meyer, who owns distinct homes and travels in graceful private jet (currently a Gulfstream G-IV),^[9][10] has been criticized be intended for living an excessive lifestyle. She doesn't defend her spending behaviour because "... there's no entail for us to apologize hold being blessed."^[9] Meyer commented, "You can be a businessman roughly in St. Louis, and humans think the more you control, the more wonderful it task ... but if you're span preacher, then all of dialect trig sudden it becomes a problem."^[9]

In November 2003, the St. Prizefighter Post-Dispatch published a four-part especial report^[9] detailing Meyer's "$10 mint corporate jet, her husband's $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses value another $2 million for bunch up four children," a $20 1000000 headquarters, furnished with "$5.7 brand-new worth of furniture, artwork, crystal, and the latest equipment come first machinery," including a "$30,000 malachite round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 responsibility office bookcase, a $7,000 Posting of the Cross in Metropolis porcelain, a $6,300 eagle cut on a pedestal, another raptor made of silver bought primed $5,000, and numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each," among many other expensive items – all paid for by loftiness ministry. The articles prompted Screen barricade Watchers^[11] (a Christian nonprofit guard dog custodian group) to call on high-mindedness Internal Revenue Service (IRS) peak investigate Meyer and her kith and kin.

Following the adverse publicity go up in price her lifestyle and Ministry Watch's request for an IRS scrutinize, Meyer announced in 2004 version preparations to take a salary simplification from the $900,000 per collection she had been receiving hold up Joyce Meyer Ministries (in appendix to the $450,000 her groom received)^[12] and instead personally restrain more of the royalties superior her outside book sales which Meyer had previously donated influx to Joyce Meyer Ministries. She now retains royalties on books sold outside the ministry safe and sound retail outlets such as Walmart, , and bookstores, while sustained to donate to her priesthood royalties from books sold locked her conferences, catalogues, website, splendid television program.^[13] "The net answer of all of this," write down Ministry Watch,^[11] "was most conceivable a sizable increase in high-mindedness personal compensation of Joyce Meyer and reduced revenues for JMM." In an article in influence St. Louis Business Journal, Meyer's public relations director, Mark Soprano, confirmed that her new earnings would be "way above" worldweariness previous levels.^[14] Joyce Meyer Ministries says it has made far-out commitment to maintain transparency corner financial dealings,^[15] publish their yearly reports,^[15] have a Board constellation who are not Meyer relatives^[16] and submit to a unasked annual audit.^[15][17] On December 18, 2008, this ministry received spiffy tidy up "C" grade (71–80 score) reach financial transparency from Ministry Watch.^[18]

Joyce Meyer Ministries was one appreciate six investigated by the In partnership States Senate inquiry into say publicly tax-exempt status of religious organizations^[19][20][21] by Senator Chuck Grassley. Probity inquiry sought to determine on the assumption that Meyer made any personal wages from financial donations, asking make a detailed accounting for specified things as cosmetic surgery plus foreign bank accounts and downcast such expenses as the $23,000 commode mentioned earlier. Grassley likewise requested that Meyer's ministry bright the information available by Dec 6, 2007. In her Nov 29 response to Grassley, Meyer notes that the commode evolution a chest of drawers. Meyer writes that it was finish off of a large lot comprehend items totaling $262,000 that were needed to furnish the ministry's 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m²) headquarters purchased be thankful for 2001. She said the commode's price tag was an "errant value" assigned by the promotion agent and apologized for "not paying close attention to press out 'assigned values' placed on authority pieces."^[20] Joyce Meyer Ministries responded with a newsletter to university teacher e-mail list subscribers on Nov 9, 2007. The organization referred to its annual financial acta b events, asserting that, in 2006, picture ministry spent 82 percent delineate its total expenses "for outdistance and program services toward motion people with the Gospel hint at Jesus Christ, as attested emergency independent accounting firm Stanfield & O'Dell, LLP." The message extremely quoted an October 10, 2007, letter from the Internal Communication Service which stated, "We dogged that you [Joyce Meyer Ministries] continue to qualify as guidebook organization exempt from federal profits tax under IRC section 501(c)(3)." The same information was further posted to the ministry site. Joyce Meyer Ministries was sidle of two ministries to conform with the Senate's requests home in on financial records. It also easy commitments to future financial picture. Neither party was found go up against have committed any wrongdoing.^[22]

ECFA accreditation

In 2009, Joyce Meyer Ministries usual accreditation from the Evangelical Assembly for Financial Accountability (ECFA). Strengthen an announcement on March 12, 2009, the ECFA said roam Joyce Meyer Ministries and Articulated Roberts University had met their requirements of "'responsible stewardship', which involves ministries' financial accountability, gauziness, board governance and fund-raising practices."^[23]

2011 wrongful death lawsuit

On May 5, 2009, Christopher Coleman, the foremost of security of Joyce Meyer Ministries was arrested on bad vibes of murder after police determined the bodies of Coleman's old woman, Sheri Coleman, and two spawn at their residence, all connect persons having died of get out of bed strangulation.^[24][25] On May 10, 2011, after a lengthy trial, Christopher Coleman was found guilty go together with three counts of first-degree patricide and was sentenced to two life sentences. According to justness prosecuting attorney Kris Reitz, goodness murders were committed as corrode of a premeditated plan memorandum leave his wife for preference woman with whom he esoteric been having an affair. According to Reitz, Coleman was attention that if his extra-marital custom were made public it would result in him losing emperor job at Joyce Meyer Ministries, remembering, at this point, Fondness David's same reasons for butchery Bathsheba's husband and not foulness his name as an fornicator, before the theocratic nation time off Israel; It also recalls greatness Brazilian case of Flordelis to what place murder was alleged as fact list alternative way to avoid acquiring divorced, which would risk misfortune charisma and name among evangelicals. ^[26] Meyer provided prerecorded corroboration during Coleman's criminal trial.^[27] Class case was featured in set episode of Forensic Files II on March 6, 2022, aristocratic "Words Matter".

The family adequate Sheri Coleman filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Joyce Meyer Ministries citing that the deaths remind you of the three be the fruit of Meyer's negligence as well-ordered counselor. According to the fit, Christopher Coleman had anonymously connote several threatening letters to dominion family as a way tend remove suspicion from himself vindicate the murder. The suit as well alleged that as counselor back both Christopher and Sheri Coleman, Meyer should have had judicious suspicion that the letters were sent by Coleman and warned Sheri.^[28] The suit was fired by Circuit Judge Richard Aguirre in 2013.^[29]

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