Dubbed "The Smiling Preacher," Joel Osteen is the hugely popular
pastor of Lakewood Church - a mega-church in Houston, Texas.
Lakewood Church is, in fact, America's largest church, with its
Sunday services drawing up to 40,000 people a week. [Mar. 30,
2006] In July, 2005, the church moved into the former Compaq
Center - once home to the Houston Rockets.
Osteen inherited the church from his father, John Osteen: |
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