Myles Munroe
Dr. Myles Munroe (born April 20, 1954) is the president and founder of the Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI) and Myles Munroe International (MMI), a Christian growth and resource center that includes leadership training institutes, a missions agency, a publishing company, a television network, radio and Web communications, and a church community. He is chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the International Third World Leaders Association and president of the International Leadership Training Institute. He is the author of 23 books and is a motivational speaker.
Biography
Myles Munroe was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1953 and has been a lifetime resident of the Bahamas. He has degrees in tine arts, education and theology from Oral Roberts University (1978), a Master’s degree in administration from the University of Tulsa (1980), and he has been awarded a number of honorary doctoral degrees. He has also served as an adjunct professor of the Graduate School of Theology at Oral Roberts University. His wife, Ruth Munroe is copastor with him at BFMI He has a son Chairo (Myles Jr.) and daughter (Charisa and says that his family is his greatest responsibility and his marriage his most sacred trust.
Today, Dr Munroe is a pastor, teacher, administration author and motivational speaker. He travels throughout the world as I speaker addressing governments leaders, businesses, schools/university and church congregations. He personally addresses over 500,000 people each year on personal and professional development, and lie receives hundreds of invitations every year to speak worldwide. Dr. Munroe has appeared on Benny Hinn’s This Is Your Day program, where lie spoke about the Kingdom of God.
Dr. Munroe places an emphasis on the Kingdom of God and believes that the whole Bible, along with the message of Jesus, revolved around the kingdom and not a religion. He has said, “My vision, is wrapped up in one statement: I exist to transform followers into leaders. My philosophy is, trapped in every follower is a leader. My belief is, if that person is placed in the right environment, the leader will manifest himself or herself.”
Bibliography
Myles Munroe is the author or coauthor of over 100 books, study guides, and audio tapes currently in print, and he is a contributing writer for various Bible editions, journals, magazines, and newsletters, such as The Believer’s Topical Bible, The African Cultural Heritage Topical Bible, Charisma Life Christian Magazine, arid Ministries Today.
His works cover Christian interpretations of the Kingdom of God as well as guidance on love, sex, family relationships, and finances. His works are written in English, Spanish and Portuguese His most popular works include:
•Myles Munroe on Relationship
•Pass it On
• Kingdom Principles: Preparing for Kingdom Experience and Expansion
• Rediscovering the Kingdom
• The Most Important Person on Earth
• Understanding Your Potential
•Waiting and Dating
•The Spirit of Leadership
• The principles and Power of Vision
• Understanding the purpose and Power of Prayer
• Understanding the Purpose Power of Woman
• Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men
• God’s Big Idea
• Overcoming The Crisis
•Principles and Benefits of Change
•Releasing Your Potential
Awards
In 1998, Dr. Munroe was awarded the Silver Jubilee Award for providing twenty five years of outstanding service to the Bahamas in the category of Faith.
Also in 1998, Myles Munroe was named to the Queen’s Birthday Honours 1998, OBE. In 2004, he was.
J. K. Rowling
Joanne “Jo’ Rowling (born 31 July 1965), pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Patter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films which has become the highest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final installment.
Born in Yate, Gloucestershire Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1 990.The seven year period that followed the death of her mother, divorce from her first husband and poverty until Rowling finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997). Rowling subsequently published 6 sequels the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) as well as 3 supplements to the series. Since, Rowling has parted with her agency and resumed writing for adult readership, releasing the tragicomedy The Casual Vacancy (2012) and using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith the crime fiction novel The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013) which, according to Rowling, is the first of a series.
Rowling has led a “rags to riches life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to multi-millionaire status within five years. She is the United Kingdom’s best selling author since records began, with sales in excess of £238m. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling’s fortune at £560 million ($798 million) ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in the United Kingdom. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007, and TIME magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans In October 2010, Rowling was named the “Most Influential Woman in Britain’ by leading magazine editors. She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Lumos (formerly the Children’s High Level Group)
Name
Although she writes under the pen name “J. K. Rowling”, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply “Joanne Rowling”. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. She calls herself “Jo” and has said, “No one ever called me ‘Joanne’ when I was young, unless they were angry:” Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name .Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence tinder the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Biography
Birth and family
Rowing was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 kin) northeast of Bristol Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King’s Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother’s maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran Her mother’s paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravely in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Childhood and education
Rowling’s sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael’s Primary, School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More Her headmaster at St Michael’s, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Putter headmaster Albus Dumbledore
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that “I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was kited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Collage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said “taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind’, gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford’s autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling’s heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker “1 wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life.” She had a difficult home life; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College where her mother had worked as a technician in die science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, “Hermione (a bookish, know-it-all Marry Potter character) is loosely based on me. She’s a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I not particularly proud of. Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as “not exceptional” but “one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English”. Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia which she says inspired the one in her books. “Ron Weasley [Harry Potter’s best friend) isn’t a living portrait of Sean, but he really is very Sean-ish.” Of her musical tastes of the time, she said “My favourite group in the world is The Smiths. And when I was going through a punky phase, it was The Clash. Rowling studied A Levels in English, French and German, achieving two A’s and a Band was Head Girl
In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exams for Oxford University but was not accepted and read for a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter which she says was a “bit of a shock” as she “was expecting to be amongst lots of similar people thinking radical thoughts”. Once she made friends with “some like- minded people she says she began to enjoy herself. Of her time at Exeter, Main Sorrel, then a professor of French at the university, recalled “a quietly competent student, with a denim jacket and dark hair, who, in academic terms, gave the appearance of doing what was necessary”. Although her own memory is of “doing no work whatsoever” and instead she “wore heavy eyeliner, listened to the Smiths, and read Dickens and Tolkien” After a year of study in Paris Rowling graduated from Exeter in 1986 and moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty international. In 1998, Rowling wrote a short-essay about her time studying Classics entitled “What was the Name of that Nymph Again? or Greek and Roman Studies Recalled”, it was published by the University of Exeter’s journal Pegasus.
Inspiration and mother’s death
After working at Amnesty International in London, Rowling and her then boyfriend decided to move to Manchester. In 1990, while she was on a f train trip from Manchester to London, the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry “came fully formed” into her mind. She told The Boston Globe that “I really don’t know where the idea came from. It started with Harry, then all these characters and situations came flooding into my head.”
Rowling described the conception of Many Potter on her website:
Rowling was on a train to King’s Cross when she conceived Harry Potter. After Rowling used it as a gateway into the Wizarding
