Paula White

===Paula White Ministries===
White recorded the first broadcast of ''Paula White Today'' in December 2001. By 2006, her show appeared on nine television networks, including [[Trinity Broadcast Network]], [[Daystar Television Network|Daystar]], and [[Black Entertainment Television]]<ref name="holymav"/><ref name="wp1"/><ref name="aa">{{cite web|url=http://www.apostasyalert.org/REFLECTIONS/Paula_White_Blush.htm|title=Paula White: Unable to Blush|last=Alnor|first=Jackie|date=October 21, 2006|website=Apostasy Alert|access-date=September 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929061432/http://www.apostasyalert.org/REFLECTIONS/Paula_White_Blush.htm|archive-date=September 29, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''[[Ebony (magazine)|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."<ref name="cnw">{{cite press release |website=Christian Communication Network |date=February 22, 2007 |title=Renowned Life Coach 'Paula White' Offers Transformational Advice to Young, Hurting, Promiscuous Women on 'The Tyra Banks Show' Today |url=http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/156562304.html |access-date=September 11, 2007}}</ref>

White considers [[T. D. Jakes|T.D. Jakes]] her spiritual father. Jakes invited her to speak at his "Woman Thou Art Loosed" conference in 2000. She also participated in the Mega Fest, hosted by Jakes in [[Atlanta]], in 2004, 2005 and 2008.<ref name="wsbtv">{{cite web |title=Mega Church Festival Arrives |url=http://www.wsbtv.com/community/3451412/detail.html |date=October 21, 2006 |access-date=April 15, 2011 |website=[[WSBTV]] |first=JaQuitta |last=Williams |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626054728/http://www.wsbtv.com/community/3451412/detail.html |archive-date=June 26, 2004 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="PRNewswire">{{cite web |title=Bishop T.D. Jakes & The Potter's House Present MegaFest International in South Africa |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bishop-t-d-jakes--the-potters-house-present-megafest-international-in-south-africa-57347817.html |date=May 30, 2008 |access-date=December 30, 2016 |website=PR Newswire |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113035539/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bishop-t-d-jakes--the-potters-house-present-megafest-international-in-south-africa-57347817.html |archive-date=January 13, 2018}}</ref>

White has ministered to [[Michael Jackson]], [[Gary Sheffield]], and [[Darryl Strawberry]].<ref name="holymav"/> She was the personal pastor to Darryl Strawberry, starting in 2003 following Strawberry's release from prison for cocaine possession. Charisse Strawberry, Darryl's wife at the time, worked as an assistant to White, accompanying her on speaking engagements.<ref name="wp1"/><ref name="dallas1">{{cite news|title=Strawberrys find a home with Pastor Paula|last=Delgado|first=Berta|date=April 7, 2004|newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]]}}</ref><ref name="spt1">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3j1SAAAAIBAJ&dq=paula-white&pg=4660%2C2897005|title=Pastors Pray with Jackson|last=Varian|first=Bill|date=December 23, 2003|newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]]|access-date=April 15, 2011}}</ref> She is the "personal life coach" of [[Tyra Banks]] and appeared on her show, the ''[[Tyra Banks Show]]'', in an episode on promiscuity on October 4, 2006.<ref name="aa" />

On December 31, 2011, the board of New Destiny Christian Church in Apopka, Florida, announced it had appointed White to succeed Zachery Tims as the new senior pastor. New Destiny Christian Center had been searching for a replacement since his death in August 2011.<ref name="fox13">{{cite web |first=Josh |last=Cascio |title=Church taps Paula White as new leader |website=[[WTVT]] |date=December 30, 2011 |url=http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/hillsborough/paula-white-new-destiny-122911 |access-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-date=April 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420101120/http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/hillsborough/paula-white-new-destiny-122911 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Tims' ex-wife Riva filed a lawsuit against the board of directors but quickly dropped it, citing a [[Indemnity#US Contracts|hold harmless]] clause in her 2009 marital settlement agreement.<ref name="euroweb">{{cite web |first=Mona |last=Austin |title=Riva Tims Can't Sue; Paula White Now Pastor of New Destiny |website=[[EuroWeb]] |date=January 3, 2012 |url=http://www.eurweb.com/2012/01/riva-tims-paula-white-new-destiny/ |access-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-date=January 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108044654/http://www.eurweb.com/2012/01/riva-tims-paula-white-new-destiny/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Upon hearing of the controversy, White addressed the New Destiny Christian Center during a service that she was leading: "I'm not asking you to like me. I'm not asking you to love me or respect me, because I'll do the work to earn that. I always ask people to give me one year of your life and I promise you will be changed."<ref name="euroweb"/>

On January 1, 2012, White officially became the senior pastor for New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka.<ref name="church">{{cite web |url=http://www.ndcc.tv/about/about-ndcc/our-pastor-paula-white |title=Our Pastor |date=March 4, 2013 |website=New Destiny Christian Center |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304115025/http://www.ndcc.tv/about/about-ndcc/our-pastor-paula-white |archive-date=March 4, 2013 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Her philanthropic work in the community along with New Destiny Christian Center has been publicly acknowledged by the mayor of Apopka: "Her church's mentoring of school students, donating food to the needy, assisting families victimized by violence and ministering to help young women trapped in the adult entertainment industry has been inspiring," said Apopka Mayor Joe Kilsheimer. "What I see her doing in the community... is of tremendous value to Apopka and northwest Orange County."<ref name="orlandomagazine.com">{{cite web|last1=Leusner|first1=Jim|last2=Glenn|first2=Barry|date=July 2017|title=50 Most Powerful 2017: Philanthropy & Community Voices|url=http://www.orlandomagazine.com/Orlando-Magazine/July-2017/50-Most-Powerful-2017-Philanthropy-Community-Voices/|access-date=June 20, 2019|website=Orlando Magazine.com}}</ref>

On May 5, 2019, White announced that she was stepping down as senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center and that her son and his wife would become the new senior pastors.<ref name=cpresign /><ref name=huffpostresign /><ref name=baptistmay9 /> The church would also be renamed City of Destiny. White said she would help start 3,000 churches and a university.<ref name=cpresign>{{cite news |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/paula-white-installs-son-as-pastor-of-her-church-plans-to-plant-3000-churches-start-university.html |title=Paula White installs son as pastor of her church; plans to plant 3,000 churches, start university |first=Leonardo |last=Blair |date=May 8, 2019 |newspaper=Christian Post |access-date=June 20, 2019}}</ref><ref name=huffpostresign>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paula-white-trump-church_n_5cd2e310e4b0a7dffccfa91e |title=Paula White, Trump's Spiritual Adviser, Leaves Florida Church With New Ambitions |first=Carol |last=Kuruvilla |date=May 8, 2019 |website=HuffPost |access-date=June 20, 2019}}</ref><ref name=baptistmay9 />

Commenting in March 2020 about her ministry and the [[COVID-19]] outbreak, White said, "We are a hospital for those who are soul sick, those who are spiritually sick," and, citing Psalm 91, solicited donations of $91 or, "maybe $9 or whatever God tells you to do." She did let donors know that the money wouldn't go to victims of the disease.<ref name=MJ>[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/trumps-spiritual-adviser-paula-white-is-using-the-coronavirus-crisis-to-bankroll-her-church/ Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Paula White Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Bankroll Her Church], ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] ''Will Peischel'', March 18, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2020.</ref> After widespread criticism of an Arizona event scheduled for April 9, 2020, for which she had promised "supernatural protection," she withdrew from the fundraiser.<ref name=AR_1 >{{ cite news | url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2020/03/15/trump-adviser-pulls-out-religious-event-promising-protection-covid-19/5055788002/ | title=Trump adviser Paula White pulls out of religious event promising protection from coronavirus | last=Morin | first=Richard | newspaper=[[Arizona Republic]] | date=2020-03-15 | access-date=2020-04-14 }}</ref>