Dr. William Samuel Winston is the founder and senior pastor of Living Word Christian Center, based in Forest Park, Illinois, with a weekly attendance of over 22,000. His teachings, writings, weekly television, and radio programs are distributed through his ministry Bill Winston Ministries and are aired worldwide via his broadcast program Believers Walk of Faith with Dr. Bill Winston. He has written over 15 books. Winston served for six years with the US Air Force, as a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, where he won the Distinguished Flying Cross.