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. She also began airing a daily 15-minute radio broadcast on a St. The church became one of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher. Within a few years, Meyer was the church's associate pastor. She began leading an early-morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a charismatic church in Fenton. Louis, a congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.

Meyer was briefly a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in St. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. She 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. She was born-again at age nine, but unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith. Meyer also reports that during an intense prayer while driving to work one morning in 1976, she heard God call her name. After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. She states that she returned the money years later. They used the money to go on a vacation to California. She maintains that her husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer. Louis, she married a part-time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school.

Ī graduate of O'Fallon Technical High School in St.

She has said in interviews that he began sexually abusing her upon his return, and discusses this experience in her meetings. Her father went into the army to fight in World War II soon after she was born. Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Her ministry is headquartered near the St. Joyce and her husband, Dave, have four grown children and live outside St. Pauline Joyce Meyer (née Hutchison June 4, 1943) is an American Charismatic Christian author, speaker, and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries.

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