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Line 12: \| death_place = \| occupation = Bible teacher, author, speaker \| spouse = {{married\|Dave Meyer\|1967}} \| period = \| genre = Line 22: }} '''Pauline Joyce Meyer''' (née '''Hutchison'''; June 4, 1943<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|last=PRO \|date=2013-06-04 \|title=Bibellehrerin Joyce Meyer feiert 70. Geburtstag \|url=https://www.pro-medienmagazin.de/bibellehrerin-joyce-meyer-feiert-70-geburtstag/ \|access-date=2024-10-01 \|website=PRO {{!}} Das christliche Medienmagazin \|language=de-DE}}</ref>) is an American [[Charismatic Movement\|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\|Fenton]], Missouri. ==Early life== Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Louis in 1943.<ref name=":0" /> Her father went into the army to fight in [[World War II]] soon after she was born. She has said in interviews that he began [[Child sexual abuse\|sexually abusing]] her upon his return, and discusses this experience in her meetings.<ref name="P-D1">{{cite news \|title=Meyer traces her fervor to early abuse, alcohol \|first1=Bill \|last1=Smith \|first2=Carolyn \|last2=Tuft \|url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/1D29266A7F855B2886256DDF00701F8A?OpenDocument \|work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] \|publisher=[[Pulitzer, Inc.]] \|date=November 15, 2003 \|access-date=August 22, 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127003333/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/1D29266A7F855B2886256DDF00701F8A?OpenDocument \|archive-date=January 27, 2006}}</ref> She speaks with a working-class St. Louis accent.<ref>{{cite book\|title=One Last Kiss: The True Story of a Minister's Bodyguard, His Beautiful Mistress, and a Brutal Triple Homicide\|last=Cuneo\|first=Michael W.\|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers\|Macmillan]]\|date=2012\|page=42}}</ref> A graduate of [[Gateway High School (St. Louis)\|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. She maintains that her husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer. They used the money to go on a vacation to California. She states that she returned the money years later.<ref name="P-D1"/> 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 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 (Christianity)\|born- again]] at age nine, but unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith. 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.<ref name="P-D1"/> {{blockquote\|text=... I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. 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 ...<ref name="CNN">{{cite web \| publisher = CNN \| work = [[Larry King Live]] \| title = Transcript: Interview with Joyce Meyer \| date = May 19, 2005 \| url = http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/19/lkl.01.html}}</ref>}} Line 38: 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, Missouri\|Kansas City]]. In 1993, her husband, Dave, suggested starting a television ministry.<ref name="P-D1"/> ~~Initially~~Under ~~airing~~the name "Life in the Word", it initially aired on [[superstation]] [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television ([[BET]]). In 1998, ~~her~~it was one of the first religious programs airing on [[KTBU]] which at that time was owned by [[Lakewood Church]] and Humanity Interested Media, Inc.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=McDaniel \|first1=Mike \|title=New TV station takes careful aim at family - Channel 55 Launches with Vintage Shows, Fresh Attitude \|work=Houston Chronicle \|date=15 July 1998 \|location=Houston section \|page=1}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/64475-mining-a-rich-backlist-pw-talks-with-joyce-meyer.html \| work = Publishers Weekly \| title = Mining a Rich Backlist: PW Talks with Joyce Meyer \| date = October 21, 2014}}</ref> Line 44: 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.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Meyer's ministry withdraws program from channel 24 \|first=Bill \|last=Smith \|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=Joyce%20Meyer&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2004&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=%28%22Joyce%20Meyer%22%29&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:A&xcal_useweights=no \|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch \|publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. \|date=January 3, 2004 \|access-date=March 27, 2010}}</ref> In 2005, Meyer was listed in ''[[Time (magazine)\|Time]]'' magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America" ~~ranked Meyer as 17th~~.<ref>{{cite magazine \| url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1993235_1993243_1993303,00.html \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611083335/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1993235_1993243_1993303,00.html \| url-status=dead \| archive-date=June 11, 2010 \| magazine = Time \| title = 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America \| date = February 7, 2005}}</ref> ==Salary and finances== [[File:N7JMatSYD.jpg\|thumb\|267px\|Joyce Meyer used to travel in this [[Bombardier Challenger 600\|Canadair Challenger 600S]]; seen here in Sydney, Australia, when she was a 'special guest' at the [[Hillsong Conference]] in July 2005. It has since been replaced by a [[Gulfstream IV\|Gulfstream G-IV]] (serial number 1132)]] Meyer, who owns several homes and travels in a private jet (currently a [[Gulfstream IV\|Gulfstream G-IV]]),<ref name="PD-2"/><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N7JM \|title=N-Number Inquiry Results \|work=FAA Registry \|publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] \|access-date=August 22, 2013 \|archive-date=August 22, 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822091851/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N7JM \|url-status=dead }} FAA US civil aircraft register inquiry, using "N7JM" as the search parameter. Inquiry conducted August 22, 2013.</ref> has been criticized for living an excessive lifestyle. She doesn't defend her spending habits because "... there's no need for us to apologize for being blessed."<ref name="PD-2">{{cite news \|title=From Fenton to fortune in the name of God \|first1=Carolyn \|last1=Tuft \|first2=Bill \|last2=Smith \|url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument \|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch \|publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. \|date=November 15, 2003 \|access-date=August 22, 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011071211/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument \|archive-date=October 11, 2007}} Part 1 of 4. Related articles are {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011070008/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf?OpenDatabase \|date=11 October 2007 }}</ref> Meyer commented, "You can be a businessman here in St. Louis, and people think the more you have, the more wonderful it is ... but if you're a preacher, then all of a sudden it becomes a problem."<ref name="PD-2"/> In November 2003, the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' published a four-part special report<ref name="PD-2"/> detailing Meyer's "$10 million corporate jet, her husband's $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses worth another $2 million for her four children," a $20 million headquarters, furnished with "$5.7 million worth of furniture, artwork, glassware, and the latest equipment and machinery," including a "$30,000 [[malachite]] round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 custom office bookcase, a $7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal, another eagle made of silver bought for $5,000, and numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each," among many other expensive items – all paid for by the ministry. The articles prompted Wall Watchers<ref name="MinistryWatch"/> (a Christian nonprofit watchdog group) to call on the [[Internal Revenue Service]] (IRS) to investigate Meyer and her family. Line 58: \| title = Joyce Meyer Responds to Critics, Shifts Income Source \| date = January 1, 2004 \| first = Corrie \| last = Cutrer \| url = http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/januaryweb-only/1-19-13.0.html \| access-date = June 6, 2007 }}</ref> "The net effect of all of this," notes Ministry Watch,<ref name="MinistryWatch">{{cite web▼ \| archive-date = June 6, 2007 \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070606235423/http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/januaryweb-only/1-19-13.0.html \| url-status = dead ▲ }}</ref> "The net effect of all of this," notes Ministry Watch,<ref name="MinistryWatch">{{cite web \| url = http://www.ministrywatch.com/profile/Joyce-Meyer.aspx \| title = Joyce Meyer/ JMM/ Enjoying Every Day Life/ Life in the Word Line 112 ⟶ 117: Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of six investigated by the [[United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations]]<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite news \| url = ~~http~~https://www.cbsnews.com/~~stories~~news/~~2007~~televangelists-living-like-kings/~~11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main3462147.shtml~~ \| title = Televangelists Living Like Kings? \| first= Armen \|last= Keteyian \|author-link= Armen Keteyian Line 139 ⟶ 144: \| author-link = Chuck Grassley \| access-date = December 10, 2007 }}</ref> by Senator [[Chuck Grassley]]. The inquiry sought to determine if 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 also requested that Meyer's ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007. In her November 29 response to Grassley, Meyer notes that the commode is a [[chest of drawers]]. Meyer writes that it was part of a large lot of items totaling $262,000 that were needed to furnish the ministry's {{convert\|150000\|sqft\|m2\|adj=on}} headquarters purchased in 2001. She said the commode's price tag was an "errant value" assigned by the selling agent and apologized for "not paying close attention to specific 'assigned values' placed on the pieces."<ref name="NPR-Lohr"/> Joyce Meyer Ministries responded with a newsletter to its e-mail list subscribers on November 9, 2007. The organization referred to its annual financial reports, asserting that, in 2006, the ministry spent 82 percent of its total expenses "for outreach and program services toward reaching people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as attested by independent accounting firm Stanfield & O'Dell, LLP." The message also quoted an October 10, 2007, letter from the Internal Revenue Service which stated, "We determined that you [Joyce Meyer Ministries] continue to qualify as an organization exempt from federal income tax under IRC section 501(c)(3)." The same information was also posted to the ministry website. Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of two ministries to comply with the Senate's requests for financial records. It also made commitments to future financial transparency. Neither party ~~were~~was found to have ~~done~~committed any wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite web \| url = ~~http~~https://www.nbcnews.com/id/~~40960871~~wbna40960871 \| title = Televangelists escape penalty in Senate inquiry \| date = January 7, 2011 \| first = Rachel \| last = Zoll \| agency=[[Associated Press]] \| work = [[NBC News]] \|publisher = [[NBC]] \| location = New York}}</ref> ===ECFA accreditation=== Line 148 ⟶ 153: \| date = March 13, 2009 \| access-date = August 22, 2013 \| archive-date = January 2, 2014 }}</ref>▼ \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194202/http://www.charismamag.com/site-archives/570-news/featured-news/4002-meyer-oru-gain-ecfa-accreditation \| url-status = dead ▲ }}</ref> ===2011 wrongful death lawsuit=== 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, all three persons having died of apparent strangulation.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=PISTOR \|first1=Nicholas J. C. \|last2=Thornsen \|first2=LEAH \|title=Coleman arrested in killing of family \|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/coleman-arrested-in-killing-of-family/article_e6058be5-06fd-5487-9541-afc68c5d47c7.html \|access-date=12 July 2019 \|work=stltoday.com \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Pistor \|first1=Nicholas J. C. \|last2=Tuft \|first2=Carolyn \|title=May 5, 2009: Three murders mark the start of the Christopher Coleman case \|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/may-three-murders-mark-the-start-of-the-christopher-coleman/article_404da836-4ca1-5e88-b6c9-22ed6e560f9a.html \|access-date=12 July 2019 \|work=stltoday.com \|date=May 5, 2009 \|language=en}}</ref> On May 10, 2011, after a lengthy trial, Christopher Coleman was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to three life sentences. According to the prosecuting attorney Kris Reitz, the murders were committed as part of a premeditated plan to leave his wife for another woman ~~who~~with whom he had been having an affair. ~~with, according~~According to Reitz, Coleman was concerned that if his extra-marital affair were made public it would result in him losing his job at Joyce Meyer Ministries, remembering, at this point, King David's same reasons for killing Bathsheba's husband and not dirtying his name as an adulterer, before the theocratic nation of Israel; It also recalls the Brazilian case of Flordelis where murder was alleged as an alternative way to avoid getting divorced, which would risk losing charisma and name among evangelicals. <ref>{{cite news \|title=Coleman averts jury; judge issues life terms \|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/coleman-averts-jury-judge-issues-life-terms/article_23cc418b-7206-524d-8574-87cb59abc298.html \|access-date=12 July 2019 \|work=stltoday.com \|date=May 10, 2011 \|language=en}}</ref> Meyer provided prerecorded testimony during Coleman's criminal trial.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/joyce-meyer-says-affair-could-have-cost-coleman-his-job/article_7c4a5e64-7263-11e0-a37f-001a4bcf6878.html\|title=Joyce Meyer says affair could have cost Coleman his job\|first=Nicholas J. C.\|last=Pistor\|website=STLtoday.com}}</ref> The case was featured in an episode of [[Forensic Files II#Season 3 (2022)\|Forensic Files II]] on March 6, 2022, titled "Words Matter". The family of Sheri Coleman filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Joyce Meyer Ministries citing that the deaths of the three to be the result of Meyer's negligence as a counselor. According to the suit, Christopher Coleman had anonymously sent several threatening letters to his family as a way to remove suspicion from himself for the murder. The suit also alleged that as counselor for both Christopher and Sheri Coleman, Meyer should have had reasonable suspicion that the letters were sent by Coleman and warned Sheri.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Joyce Meyer sued by insurance company \|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/joyce-meyer-sued-by-insurance-company/article_f2c3917e-47fa-5518-b117-6f8675cd4d6a.html \|access-date=12 July 2019 \|work=stltoday.com \|language=en}}</ref> The suit was dismissed by Circuit Judge Richard Aguirre in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-joyce-meyer-ministries-over-coleman-murders/article_f947afbd-1916-5b49-8149-5719ee438d75.html\|title=Judge dismisses lawsuit against Joyce Meyer Ministries over Coleman murders\|first=Marlon A\|last=Walker\|website=STLtoday.com}}</ref> ==Selected bibliography== Line 164 ⟶ 172: * {{cite book \| title=Straight Talk: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word\| year=2005 \| isbn=0-446-57800-2<!-- \| author=Meyer, Joyce-->}} * {{cite book \| title=Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone\| year=2005 \| isbn=0-446-57772-3<!-- \| author=Meyer, Joyce-->}} * {{cite book\| title=Look Great, Feel Great: 12 Keys to Enjoying a Healthy Life Now\| year=2006\| isbn=0-446-57946-7\| url=https://archive.org/details/lookgreatfeelgre00meye\| last1=Meyer\| first1=Joyce\| publisher=Warner Faith}} * {{cite book \| title=The Everyday Life Bible: The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living\| year=2006 \| isbn=0-446-57827-4<!-- \| author=Meyer, Joyce-->}} * {{cite book \| title=The Confident Woman: Start Today Living Boldly and Without Fear\| year=2007 \| isbn=0-446-53198-7<!-- \| author=Meyer, Joyce-->}} Line 201 ⟶ 209: [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:20th-century ~~Christians~~American women writers]] [[Category:20th-century ~~American~~Protestant ~~women~~religious ~~writers~~leaders]]▼ [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:21st-century ~~Christians~~American women writers]] [[Category:21st-century ~~American~~Protestant ~~women~~religious ~~writers~~leaders]]▼ [[Category:American Charismatics]] [[Category:American Christian writers]]▼ ~~[[Category:American evangelicals]]~~ [[Category:American self-help writers]] [[Category:American television evangelists]] ▲[[Category:American ~~Christian~~women non-fiction writers]] [[Category:Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity]] [[Category:Christian media]]▼ [[Category:Christians from Missouri]] ▲[[Category:Christian media]] [[Category:Oral Roberts University people]] [[Category:~~Writers~~Pentecostal ~~from St. Louis~~writers]] ~~[[Category:American women non-fiction writers]]~~ ▲[[Category:20th-century American women writers]] ▲[[Category:21st-century American women writers]] ~~[[Category:Evangelicalism in Missouri]]~~ [[Category:Televangelists from Missouri]] [[Category:Writers from St. Louis]] [[Category:Women Protestant religious leaders]]