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{{Short description|American author (born 1943)}}
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▲| birth_place = [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], U.S.
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| spouse = {{married|Dave Meyer|1967}}
▲| occupation = Bible teacher, author, speaker
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'''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
==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
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
{{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>}}
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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
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>
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
In 2005
==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
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.
Following the adverse publicity about her lifestyle and Ministry Watch's request for an IRS probe, Meyer announced in 2004 plans to take a salary reduction from the $900,000 per year she had been receiving from Joyce Meyer Ministries (in addition to the $450,000 her husband received)<ref>{{cite news |title=To our readers, an apology
| work = [[Christianity Today]]
| publisher = Christianity Today International
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| 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
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▲ }}</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
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}}</ref> and submit to a voluntary annual audit.<ref name="commitment"/><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AnnualReport12/index.aspx
|title = Annual Report 2012
|publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries
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|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130811185357/http://joycemeyer.org/AnnualReport12/index.aspx
|archive-date = August 11, 2013
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}}</ref> On December 18, 2008, this ministry received a "C" grade (71–80 score) for financial transparency from [[Ministry Watch]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_SumRpt.asp?EIN=431382734
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}} Summary report for Joyce Meyer Ministries. (A January 2013 summary is {{cite web
|url=http://ministrywatch.com/profile/joyce-meyer.aspx
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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
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| title = Televangelists Living Like Kings?
| first= Armen |last= Keteyian |author-link= Armen Keteyian
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| url = http://media.npr.org/documents/2007/nov/grassley/meyer.pdf
| title = Letter to David and Joyce Meyer
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| 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
===ECFA accreditation===
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| date = March 13, 2009
| access-date = August 22, 2013
| archive-date = January 2, 2014
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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194202/http://www.charismamag.com/site-archives/570-news/featured-news/4002-meyer-oru-gain-ecfa-accreditation
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===2011
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=
The family of Sheri Coleman filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Joyce Meyer Ministries citing that the deaths of the three
==Selected bibliography==
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* {{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-->}}
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