Reliant Energy

Kirbyjon H. Caldwell is the pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church, a 14,000-member megachurch in Windsor Village, Houston, Texas,... United States. He was one of President George W. Bush's most influential spiritual advisors. Caldwell was born in 1953 in Houston. His father was a clothier who made suits for James Brown, The Temptations, and other celebrities. His mother was a high school guidance counselor. The family lived in the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood of Houston and Caldwell graduated from Kashmere High School. Caldwell went to college at Carleton College, receiving his B.A. in Economics in 1975. He then attended the Wharton School of Business, receiving his M.B.A. in 1977. Caldwell worked briefly as an investment banker at First Boston in New York City, before returning to Houston to take a job at the bond firm of Hibbard, O'Conner, and Weeks. Although he was very successful financially, Caldwell felt called to Christian ministry and subsequently attended the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, receiving his masters in Divinity in 1981. While completing his degree, Caldwell was appointed Associate Pastor at St.
more