20 Facts About Joyce Meyer

Pauline Joyce Meyer is an American Charismatic Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries.

Joyce Meyer's ministry is headquartered near the St Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.

Joyce Meyer's father went into the army to fight in World War II soon after she was born.

Joyce Meyer maintains that her husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer.

Joyce Meyer was born-again at age nine, but unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith.

Joyce Meyer got home later that day from a beauty appointment "full of liquid love" and was "drunk with the Spirit of God" that night while at the local bowling alley.

Joyce Meyer began leading an early-morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a charismatic church in Fenton.

Joyce Meyer began airing a daily 15-minute radio broadcast on a St Louis radio station.

Joyce Meyer, who owns several homes and travels in a private jet, has been criticized for living an excessive lifestyle.

Joyce Meyer now retains royalties on books sold outside the ministry through retail outlets such as Walmart, Amazon.

Joyce Meyer Ministries says it has made a commitment to maintain transparency in financial dealings, publish their annual reports, have a Board majority who are not Meyer relatives and submit to a voluntary annual audit.

Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of six investigated by the United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations by Senator Chuck Grassley.

The inquiry sought to determine if Joyce Meyer made any personal profit from financial donations, asking for a detailed accounting for such things as cosmetic surgery and foreign bank accounts and citing such expenses as the $23,000 commode mentioned earlier.

Grassley requested that Joyce Meyer's ministry make the information available by December 6,2007.

Joyce Meyer writes that it was part of a large lot of items totaling $262,000 that were needed to furnish the ministry's 150,000-square-foot headquarters purchased in 2001.

Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of two ministries to comply with the Senate's requests for financial records.

In 2009, Joyce Meyer Ministries received accreditation from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

On May 5,2009, Christopher Coleman, the chief of security of Joyce Meyer Ministries was arrested on suspicion of murder after police discovered the bodies of Coleman's wife, Sheri Coleman, and two sons at their residence having died of apparent strangulation.

The family of Sheri Coleman filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Joyce Meyer Ministries citing that the deaths of the three be the result of Meyer's negligence as a counselor.

The suit alleged that as counselor for both Christopher and Sheri Coleman, Joyce Meyer should have had reasonable suspicion that the letters were sent by Coleman and warned Sheri.