Rick Joyner

Rick Joyner (born 1949) heads MorningStar Ministries, which he co-founded in 1983 in Jackson, Mississippi with his wife, Julie Joyner.

Joyner was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1949 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia.

Joyner served in the Navy until 1970, and then moved back to Raleigh. He is reported to have worked part-time in a Raleigh jazz club after leaving the Navy, quitting when, as he put it, he "found out there is a God." He subsequently moved to Jackson, Mississippi and founded a charter air company.

Rick Joyner and his wife, Julie, founded MorningStar Ministries in Jackson in 1983.

By the mid 1990s Joyner was president of MorningStar publications, located at that time in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In that period, Joyner began working with Reggie White, who was planning to purchase Jim Bakker's defunct resort, Heritage USA.

In 1997 Joyner purchased 320 acres of land in Wilkes County, North Carolina near Moravian Falls and moved the headquarters of MorningStar there from Charlotte.

By 1999 Joyner appears in news reports regarding his participation in plans to build a biblical theme park, in particular, with Reggie White, who had been unsuccessful in his attempts to purchase the Heritage USA theme park property.

In 2004 MorningStar purchased part of the Heritage USA complex (originally established by Bakker and PTL in Fort Mill, South Carolina) for $1.6 million. The complex has been renamed Heritage International Ministries Conference Center.

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