BIOGRAPHY OF JOYCE MEYER

 Joyce Meyer is an American preacher, an author and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1943.  Shortly after she was born, her father went into the army to fight in World War II. In several interviews, Joyce Meyer has said upon his father's return from the war, he began to abuse her sexually.

Joyce Meyer graduated from O' Fallon Technical School in St. Louis. She married a part time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school and the marriage lasted five years. She maintains the husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer.

Joyce Meyer had mentioned that years later, she returned the money. Shortly after her divorce, she met Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman and they got married on January 7, 1967. 

Joyce Meyer never attended church during his childhood days but she knew the lord personally. She went deeper in her relationship with God after an encounter with the holyspirit. While praying and driving to work one morning in 1976, she heard God call her name. She got home later that day and was drunk with the holyspirit.

She then joined Our Savior's Lutheran Church in St. Louis, a congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. She began leading an early morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a charismatic church in Fenton, Missouri.  Within a few years, the church became one of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher.

In 1985, she 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. In 1993, she started a television ministry alongside her husband and it initially aired on superstation WGN-TV in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television (BET)

In 1998, "Life in the World" became one of the first religious programs airing on KTBU which at that time was owned by Lakewood Church and Humanity Interested Media, Inc. Her program, now called "Enjoying Everyday Life" is still on the air today.

In 2005, she was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most Influential Evangelicals in America. She holds an earned PhD in theology from Life Christian University in Tampa, Florida, an honorary doctorate in Divinity from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma and an honorary doctorate in Sacred Theology from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. 

She has authored over 90 self-help non-fiction books and a handful of fiction books. Joy Meyer owns a private jet, currently a Gulfstream G-IV.