Maurice (Moe) Pujol, publisher of the Washington County (FL) News and Holmes County (FL) Times-Advertiser,is founder and president of Moe Pujol Ministries, a nondenominational gospel ministry based in Geneva, AL. In the newspaper business since 1974, Moe was ordained as a gospel minister by Cypress Creek Community Church, Alford, FL, in 1998. He has worked as an interim pastor and evangelist and has spoken regularly at a variety of Christian churches. A native of New Orleans, he is married with three children, two grown sons, the third a teenaged daughter still at home with the family in Geneva.

Moe writes a weekly column for “Real Power,” a faith tabloid which is inserted in his own newspapers, as well as “North Louisiana Good News,” based in Minden, LA. The ministry also sends out a monthly letter, “Resurrection Life,” entering its 12th year of publication in February 2005.