| Beth Moore | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wanda Elizabeth Green June 16, 1957 Green Bay, Wisconsin |
| Residence | Houston, Texas |
| Other names | Dr. Beth Moore |
| Education |
B.A. Southwest Texas State University (political science) |
| Occupation | Evangelist, Author, Bible scholar |
| Years active | 1978-present |
| Home town | Arkadelphia, Arkansas |
| Title | Founder and Pastor, Living Proof Ministries |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Spouse | Keith Moore (m. 1978–present) |
| Children | Amanda Moore Melissa Moore |
Wanda Elizabeth "Beth" Moore (born Wanda Elizabeth Green on June 16, 1957) is an American evangelist, author, and teacher. Moore founded Living Proof Ministries, a biblically-based organization for women, in 1994. It is based in Houston, Texas, and it primarily focuses on aiding women who desire to model their lives on evangelical Christian principles.[1] Women from around the world sit under Moore’s teaching at Living Proof Live conferences, sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources. Travis Cottrell leads worship at these conferences.[2] Moore also teaches through her radio show, Living Proof with Beth Moore, and appears as a regular on the television program LIFE Today, where she hosts Wednesdays with Beth.[1] In 2007 and 2008, Moore, along with Kay Arthur and Priscilla Shirer,[3] founded Deeper Still: The Event,[4] a LifeWay weekend conference featuring the three women.[5]
Moore writes books based on the regular Bible studies that she conducts at the Living Proof Live conferences and at her local church, Bayou City Fellowship, Houston, Texas.[6] Moore’s books include Breaking Free, Believing God, and When Godly People Do Ungodly Things. Through her books, the Internet, DVD, video, and audiotape, women from every denomination around the world have participated in her Bible studies, while many others have listened to her on the radio or heard her speak in person.[7]
Through the years American missionaries and expatriates have taken the Bible studies overseas, resulting in Beth Moore Bible study groups all over the world. Moore's Living Proof Live conferences have taken her to thirty-nine states since 1994 and have been attended by more than 421,000 women.[8] She has also taught conferences for women in numerous countries, including Ireland, England, Singapore, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and India.[1]
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Living Proof is devoted to investing in the Spiritual lives of people of every color and denomination through sound Biblical teaching and uplifting praise and worship.[9]
Born on an army base in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and raised in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where her father owned a cinema house, Beth is the fourth of five children, all of whom worked at the cinema from a young age.
Moore holds a degree in political science from Southwest Texas State University, where she pledged and was initiated into Chi Omega, and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Howard Payne University.
She married Keith Moore in 1978.[1] They have two grown daughters, Amanda and Melissa.[10] Both daughters, along with son-in-law Curtis Jones, work with their mother at Living Proof Ministries.[11]
Moore committed her life to vocational Christian ministry at the age of 18. But years later, when she was volunteering as a Sunday School teacher, Moore realized she needed to learn more about the Bible. She went to a biblical doctrine class that gave her a deep yearning to know the Bible, and she began sharing her expanding knowledge through a weekly Bible study class. By the mid-1990s that class had grown to 2,000 women and she was speaking at churches throughout South Texas. It was then that LifeWay Christian Resources' publishing arm Broadman & Holman (later B&H) began publishing her Bible studies, leading to a national speaking ministry for Moore. With the help of a worship band she assembled, she began holding weekend conferences around the country. As a base for her national speaking ministry, she founded Living Proof Ministries.[12]