Joyce Meyer facts for kids
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Joyce Meyer
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Meyer speaking in 2015
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| Born | Pauline Joyce Hutchison June 4, 1943 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Bible teacher, author, speaker |
| Spouse | Dave Meyer (2nd husband) |
Pauline Joyce Meyer (née Hutchison; June 4, 1943) is an American Charismatic Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Joyce and her husband, Dave, have four grown children and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered near the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.
Early life
Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Louis in 1943. To this day, she speaks with a working-class St. Louis accent. Her father went into the army to fight in World War II soon after she was born.
A graduate of O'Fallon Technical High School in St. Louis, she married a part-time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school. The marriage lasted five years. After her divorce, Meyer met Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. They were married on January 7, 1967.
Conversion and ministry
Meyer also reports that during an intense prayer while driving to work one morning in 1976, she heard God call her name. She was born again at age nine, but unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith.
Meyer was briefly a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in St. Louis, a congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. She began leading an early-morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a charismatic church in Fenton. Within a few years, Meyer was the church's associate pastor. The church became one of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher. She also began airing a daily 15-minute radio broadcast on a St. Louis radio station.
In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor and founded her own ministry, initially called "Life in the Word." She began airing her radio show on six other stations from Chicago to Kansas City.
In 1993, her husband, Dave, suggested starting a television ministry. Initially airing on superstation WGN-TV in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television (BET), her program, now called Enjoying Everyday Life, is still on the air today.
In 2002, mainstream publisher Hachette Book Group paid Meyer over $10 million for the rights to her backlist catalog of independently released books.
In 2004, St. Louis Christian television station KNLC, operated by the Rev. Larry Rice of New Life Evangelistic Center, dropped Meyer's programming. According to Rice, a longstanding Meyer supporter, Meyer's "excessive lifestyle" and her teachings "often going beyond Scripture" were the impetus for canceling the program.
In 2005, Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America" ranked Meyer as 17th.
See also
In Spanish: Joyce Meyer para niños
- Prosperity theology
- Word of Faith
