From Fenton to fame

St Louis Post ^ | November 16, 2003 | Carolyn Tuft and Bill Smith

[AlbertWang]

Joyce Meyer says God has made her rich.

Everything she has came from Him: the $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 -- all blessings, she says, straight from the hand of God.

It's been an amazing run, nothing short of a miracle, says Meyer, a one-time bookkeeper who heads one of the world's largest television ministries. Her Life in the Word organization expects to take in $95 million this year.

Just look around, she told reporters last month from behind her desk on the third floor of the ministry's corporate offices in Jefferson County.

``Here I am, an ex-housewife from Fenton, with a 12th-grade education,'' she said. ``How could anybody look at this and see anything other than God?'' In many ways, Joyce Meyer is an American Cinderella.

[AlbertWang]

The Post promises a 4 part report. Dig thru the aa the articles, I love the part where the discussion of tax exempt status and Meyer's "parsonage" are discussed, Meyer's people point out that the Pope lives in the Vatican and has his own security force!

[UCANSEE2]

To anyone who has listened to Joyce Meyer speak, she does have a gift.

The ability to put moral and religious concepts into words that HIT HOME.