She has been accused of promoting self-interested materialistic idolatry contrary to the teachings of Jesus. She also supports the organizations Feed the Children and The Bridge, a shelter for battered women. Her other activities include a regular feature on Houston radio station 89.3 KSBJ. Her part of the service can be seen on a one-hour program broadcast on the Daystar Television Network and through a live Internet feed. ![]() Osteen founded the Lakewood Church Women’s Ministry in 2003, where she currently serves as co-pastor. It was while working in the jewelry store that she met Joel Osteen in 1985 when he came in to buy a new watch battery. Osteen attended (though did not graduate from) the University of Houston where she studied psychology while working in her mother’s jewelry business. Growing up, Osteen attended a nearby Church of Christ, a relatively conservative church, where her mother, Georgine Iloff, taught Sunday school and her father served as a deacon. She grew up in a southeastern suburb of Houston, near the Manned Spacecraft Center (now known as the Johnson Space Center). In 1963, at the age of two, Osteen moved with her family to Houston, Texas, when her father took a position with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA). She lived near Marshall Space Flight Center where her father, Donald Iloff – a mathematician with General Electric – was a member of GE’s Saturn rocket project team led by German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. Victoria Iloff was born on Main Huntsville, Alabama. She is the wife of Joel Osteen and the daughter-in-law of John Osteen. ![]() Victoria Osteen (née Iloff born March 28, 1961) is an American author and the co-pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.
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