Paula White was born Paula Michelle Furr April 20, 1966, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Myra Joanelle and Donald Furr. Her parents' marriage began to fail when she was five years old, her mother took Paula to Memphis. Paula’s father followed with an ultimatum for her mother to give Paula to him or he would commit suicide. White's mother refused, later that night Donald Furr killed himself by running his car into a tree.Paula’s mother became an alcoholic. While her mother worked, White was looked after by caregivers, who she said sexually and physically abused her for seven years between the ages of six and thirteen.
Ebony magazine said of White, "You know you're on to something new and significant when the most popular woman preacher on the Black Entertainment Network is a white woman."
White hosts a TV show called Paula White Today. White has also been a featured guest on numerous television broadcasts, includingABC's 20/20, Benny Hinn’s This is Your Day, Bishop TD Jakes’ The Potter’s Touch, The 700 Club, and others. Paula considers T.D. Jakes her spiritual father. Jakes invited her to speak at his "Woman Thou Art Loosed" Conference in 2000. White also participated in the Mega Fest, hosted by Jakes in Atlanta, GA in 2004 and 2005. She has also met with General Colin Powell, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. She is the personal life coach of Tyra Banks and appeared on her show the Tyra Banks Show in an episode concerning promiscuity on October 4, 2006.
Without Walls International Church was the seventh largest church in the United States. As of 2008, Paula received an honorary doctoral degree from Global Evangelical Christian College part of the International Circle of Faith College and Seminaries network.
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