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Joyce Meyer
Pauline Joyce Hutchison Meyer, more commonly known as Joyce Meyer is a Charismatic Christian author and speaker. She was born in the O?Fallon neighborhood in north St. Louis on June 4, 1943.

She has written over 70 books on Christianity. Her television and radio programs air in 25 languages in 200 countries. Some say she is a proponent of the prosperity gospel, although she does not accept that term for her teachings.

She did her graduate from 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 he frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer, which they used to fund a vacation to California. Meyer claims to have returned the money years later. After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting current husband Dave Meyer.

She had converted to Christianity at age nine, but her unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith. 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. She began leading an early-morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a Charismatic church in Fenton.

Within a few years, Meyer was the church?s associate pastor. The church became one of the leading Charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher.

After that Meyer resigned as associate pastor and founded her own ministry, initially called ?Life in the Word?. Her husband, Dave, suggested that they start a television ministry.

She opened ?St. Louis Dream Center?, a social service outreach and ministry in the O?Fallon Park section of St. Louis in late 2000.

Meyer frequently talks about finding strength to deal with difficult circumstances. She shares her views on how to deal with everyday life situations, often drawing on her own experiences.

Meyer speaks candidly and with a sense of humor, sharing with her audience her own shortcomings and taking playful jabs at stereotypical church behavior. Critics question the legitimacy of Meyer?s theological education.

According to Joyce Meyer Ministries, Meyer earned her doctorate degree from Life Christian University in Tampa, Florida. LCU is not accredited by a governmental agency recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Education.

Meyers does however hold an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from an accredited institution, Oral Roberts University, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Meyer, who owns several expensive homes and travels in a private jet, has been criticized by some of her peers for living an excessive lifestyle.

She claims that she doesn?t have to defend her spending habits because ?there?s no need for us to apologize for being blessed?.

Meyer also alludes to a double standard in the criticism of her lifestyle, saying, ?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?.

United States senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced an investigation of Meyer?s ministry by the United States Senate Committee on Finance on November 6, 2007.

Grassley asked for the ministry to divulge financial information to the committee to determine if Meyer made any personal profit from financial donations, citing such expenses as a $23,000 commode, a $30,000 conference table and requested that Meyer?s ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007.