--- title: Republican Convention: Donald Trump Invites Woman Prayer description: Correction appended Donald Trump has invited pastor Paula White, a televangelist who leads the 10,000-member New Destiny Christian Center in Orlando, to deliver the benediction... canonical: https://time.com/4411896/republican-convention-donald-trump-first-woman/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-18T23:52:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:38:16.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republican Convention: Donald Trump Invites Woman Prayer og:description: Correction appended Donald Trump has invited pastor Paula White, a televangelist who leads the 10,000-member New Destiny Christian Center in Orlando, to deliver the benediction... og:url: https://time.com/4411896/republican-convention-donald-trump-first-woman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0577601f6e686104/69889c6c428a9e1692cd3767/paula_white.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Paula White og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Republican Convention: Donald Trump Invites Woman Prayer twitter:description: Correction appended Donald Trump has invited pastor Paula White, a televangelist who leads the 10,000-member New Destiny Christian Center in Orlando, to deliver the benediction... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0577601f6e686104/69889c6c428a9e1692cd3767/paula_white.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Selects A Woman to Lead Republican Convention Prayer > Sponsored content. 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She also has been active behind the scenes to gather groups of evangelicals and pentecostal pastors to meet him privately since 2011, when he was considering a run for the White House. Last September, [White gathered a group of preachers to meet with Trump](http://time.com/donald-trump-prosperity-preachers/) at Trump Tower, including prominent pentecostal televangelists Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Trinity Broadcasting Network founder Jan Crouch, “Preachers of LA” reality star Clarence McClendon, and newcomers to the national scene like South Carolina [pastor Mark Burns](http://time.com/trump-pastor/). Lyndsay Keith, spokeswoman for the convention, told TIME that White was the first woman to pray at a Republican nominating convention. But Ruth Osborne, a commissioner of the Salvation Army, [delivered an invocation](http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4597547/commissioners-osborne) in 1992. White shared a copy of her prayer with TIME: --- > “” --- **_Correction_**_: The initial version of this story did not note Ruth Osborne, commissioner of the Salvation Army, who led an invocation for the RNC in 1992\._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4411896/republican-convention-donald-trump-first-woman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4411896/republican-convention-donald-trump-first-woman/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Selects A Woman to Lead Republican Convention Prayer","datePublished":"2016-07-18T23:52:01.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T12:38:16.000Z","description":"Correction appended Donald Trump has invited pastor Paula White, a televangelist who leads the 10,000-member New Destiny Christian Center in Orlando, to deliver the benediction...","url":"https://time.com/4411896/republican-convention-donald-trump-first-woman/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Religion","faith","2016 Republican Convention"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0577601f6e686104/69889c6c428a9e1692cd3767/paula_white.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0577601f6e686104/69889c6c428a9e1692cd3767/paula_white.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Paula White","caption":"Paula White","creditText":"Paula White Ministries","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4411896/republican-convention-donald-trump-first-woman/","name":"Donald Trump Selects A Woman to Lead Republican Convention Prayer"}}]}] ```