Bill Winston is the visionary founder and senior pastor of Living Word Christian Center in Forest Park, Illinois. He is also the founder and president of Bill Winston Ministries, a partnership-based global outreach ministry that shares the gospel through television, radio, and the internet; the nationally accredited Joseph Business School, which has partnership locations on five continents and an online program; the Living Word School of Ministry and Missions; and Faith Ministries Alliance (FMA), an organization of more than seven hundred churches and ministries under his spiritual covering in the United States and other countries. The ministry owns and operates two shopping malls, Forest Park Plaza in Forest Park and Washington Plaza in Tuskegee, Alabama. Bill is married to Veronica and is the father of three children, Melody, Allegra, and David, and the grandfather of eight.