Paula White
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| Born |
Paula Michelle Furr April 20, 1966 Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Occupation | Evangelist |
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| Children | 1 |
| Website | www |
| Religion | Pentecostal Christianity |
Paula Michelle White-Cain (née Furr; April 20, 1966), better known as Paula White, is a Pentecostal Christian televangelist. She is the Senior Pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida (near Orlando), a non-denominational, multi-cultural church whose membership ranges in the thousands. She hosts a television show, Paula White Today. She was the co-pastor of Without Walls International Church in Tampa, a church she co-founded with pastor and then-husband Randy White.
White is the personal minister to Donald Trump, and will chair the Evangelical Advisory Board in his Presidential administration. She became the first woman to deliver a prayer at a presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017, delivering the invocation.
White was born Paula Michelle Furr on April 20, 1966 in Tupelo, Mississippi, the daughter of Myra Joanelle and Donald Paul Furr III. Her parents owned a toy and craft store. Donald and Myra Furr's marriage began to fail when Paula was five years old. Paula's mother left Tupelo and took her to Memphis; her separation from her husband and his subsequent suicide drove Paula, her brother and mother into poverty. Paula's mother became an alcoholic. While her mother worked, White was looked after by caregivers. White has said that she was sexually and physically abused between the ages of six and thirteen, by different people on different occasions. Paula has also said that during this time she battled with bulimia.
Paula’s mother remarried to a two-star admiral in the US Navy when Paula was 9 years old. Her family moved to the Washington D.C. area when her stepfather became stationed at the National Naval Medical Center. Paula White is a graduate of Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Maryland.
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