Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Dr. Winston was inspired and influenced for leadership by the numerous educators, scientists, and physicians who surrounded him as a youth, and by the historic aviation accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen who served as his role models. He is a graduate of the internationally known Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), in Tuskegee, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington’s and George Washington Carver’s legacies of leadership and invention permeated the environment.

Dr. Winston served for six years as a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, where his extraordinary achievements in aerial flight earned him The Distinguished Flying Cross, The Air Medal for performance in combat, and the Squadron Top Gun Award.

After completing his military service at the rank of captain, Dr. Winston joined the IBM Corporation as a marketing representative where his exceptional managerial and relational skills earned him several promotions. Before he resigned in 1985 to enter full-time ministry, he was a regional marketing manager in IBM’s Midwest Region.

He is the founder and senior pastor of Living Word Christian Center (LWCC), a multi-cultural, non-denominational church with more than 20,000 members located in Forest Park, Illinois, and Living Word Christian Center-Tuskegee, in Tuskegee, Alabama. LWCC has a broad range of ministries and related entities.

Dr. Winston is also the founder and president of the nationally accredited Joseph Business School (JBS), which teaches practical and biblical principles to empower adults to develop indispensable skills as successful entrepreneurs and business leaders. JBS is located in Forest Park, Illinois with partnership locations on five continents. The Joseph Business School also has an online program.

He is also the founder of Bill Winston Ministries (BWM), a partnership-based global outreach ministry. BWM produces the Believer’s Walk of Faith television and radio program reaching over 800 million households worldwide. Dr. Winston also has 882 national and international churches and ministries under his spiritual covering through Faith Ministries Alliance (FMA).

Dr. Winston’s ministry owns and operates two shopping malls, Forest Park Plaza, in Forest Park, and Washington Plaza in Tuskegee. He is also the founder and CEO of Golden Eagle Aviation, a fixed base operation (FBO) located at the historic Moton Field in Tuskegee.

Veronica Irene Brown Winston was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of Dr. Stephen and Barbara Brown, both former educators with the Chicago Public School System. She attended Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Audiology and Speech Pathology in 1977. Veronica met her husband, Bill Winston, while working at IBM in marketing and systems engineering. They were married in 1983, and started their first church, Mission Temple of Faith, in 1984 in Minneapolis after God called Bill into the ministry. They started Living Word Christian Center (LWCC) in the Chicagoland area in 1988. Veronica has assisted her husband in many different areas of administration and helps ministries. 

Under her leadership, the church's Prayer Ministry staff has developed and taught an intercessory prayer training course, a 10-week class which thousands in the Chicago metropolitan area have attended. She also oversees LWCC's women's ministry, which has sponsored conferences, workshops, meetings, and outings to mentor women and build stronger families. Veronica has written several books and her most popular book, Prayer Confessions to Dominate in the New Millennium, is used in churches across the nation in their intercessory prayer sessions. 

Veronica has a love for God's Word and a desire for the Body of Christ to rise to their greatest potential through practical application of God's Word in their everyday lives. Her teachings bring a clear understanding of biblical truths with an emphasis on walking in victory in every circumstance of life. She is a licensed minister, and received her Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Friends International Christian University. As first lady of Living Word Christian Center, teacher, preacher, intercessor and author, she is a godly role model for thousands of women as she also fulfills her roles as a wife, mother, and grandmother.