At 60
years of age
Joyce Meyer's has become
a very popular speaker. She certainly is one of the
best-known and best-paid TV preachers (especially for women).
Her ministry revenues have steadily increased from 1998 where
they took in 40 million, to 1999 they brought in 55 million, to
2000 70 million, to 2001 near 80 million, to 2002 near 90
million. Today her Life in the Word organization estimates to
take in $95 million this year. The ministry says it spends about
10 percent - $880,000 a month - on charitable works around the
globe.
Her
ministry is now a multimillion-dollar organization with 500
employees with offices in Europe and South Africa. "The
ministry's headquarters, built a year and a half ago by
Wichita-based R. Messner Construction Co. Inc. for $19 million."
Meyer's
ministry reaches out to the world Charisma
article a number of years ago pointed out she is on 600 radio
and television stations-selling nearly three million tapes and
close to a million books last year (Charisma).
4 million cassettes are produced annually and at the cost of $6
each, according to a Joyce Meyer Ministries pamphlet, which
accounts for $24 million in revenues, her Web site bring an
average $8 million a month to her ministry.
(Reference-Joyce
Meyer's message: Give to me and God gives to you
By Carolyn Tuft and Bill Smith
St.
Louis Post-Dispatch)
