Rev. Richard Joyner is the founder of the Conetoe Family Life Center, hospital chaplain, and a 2015 top ten CNN hero. Richard grew up in eastern North Carolina as one of 13 children – the son of a share cropper. He joined the Army, and eventually found his way back to North Carolina where he took his early difficult years of experience on the farm and by faith, through community gardening, established a lifetime ministry to hundreds of children. The ripple effects have changed families, and restructured the community.
