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'''Pauline Joyce Meyer''' (née '''Hutchison'''; June 4, 1943)<ref name=":0">{{cnCite web |last=PRO |date=December2013-06-04 2023|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.

Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Louis in 1943.{{cn|date<ref name=December":0" 2023}}/> 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>

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}}</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 was found to have committed any wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite web | url = httphttps://www.nbcnews.com/id/40960871wbna40960871 | 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>