Michael Eisner has a good piece on CNBC featuring Olsteen and his wife's success. They are on the show to talk about how they arrived at this point and what the future holds. Joel Scott Hayley Osteen (born March 5, 1963[2]) is an American best-selling author and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His Christian ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in the United States and millions more in over 100 nations around the world.
Biography
Born in Houston, Texas, Osteen married Victoria L. Iloff on April 4, 1987.[4] They have two children, Jonathan and Alexandra. Joel, son of John and Dodie Osteen, is one of six children. His elder siblings, Paul, Lisa, Tamara and his younger sister April, are also involved in full-time ministry.[5] Joel's half-brother Justin, does missionary work out of New York[6]. Joel's father, John Osteen, a former Southern Baptist pastor who became Charismatic in the late 1950s, founded Lakewood Church on Mother's Day, 1959.[7] Osteen's father developed Lakewood into a body of approximately 6,000 members with an active television ministry, conferences, missionary support and food distribution.[6] He died of a heart attack in 1999.
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I love him. God bless.
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