Revival City
Heal. Revive. Restore.
We aim to end chronic poverty for those who require more than immediate necessities. Our multidimensional approach not only ends chronic homelessness for a few but can eliminate chronic homelessness for all. Revival City heals the past, restores the present, to revive the future: one person, one home, and one life at a time.
About Us
Revival City provides the most vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County with the immediate tools necessary to end chronic homelessness. Providing immediate housing, food, and job placement.
Sadly, these are simply quick fixes to end chronic homelessness, once we’ve addressed our clients' immediate needs. We then begin to equip our clients with additional tools to ensure they will be able to permanently and sustainably end chronic homelessness for themselves.
For every client, Revival City provides clothing not just for everyday life, but also to ensure they have the proper attire to maintain their new job. Furniture assistance, which immediately gives the client a sense of structure while simultaneously providing additional job security in this post-pandemic world, where working from home is the new normal, offers emotional support counseling for every client to heal from within, further equipping the client with the emotional intelligence necessary to end the client’s battle with chronic homelessness permanently.
Revival City’s multidimensional approach does not end chronic homelessness for a few but can eliminate chronic homelessness for all.
With every client we help, we create a community. Thus, creating an even more sustainable support system for our clients. At Revival City, leading by example is the most effective way to create lasting change. We empower our clients to inspire the most vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County, enabling them to end chronic homelessness for themselves and their families.
Revival City LA heals the past, restores the present, to revive the future: one person, one home, and one life at a time.
We can not do it alone. With your help, we can put an end to the cycle of chronic homelessness.
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Fueled by a constant passion to help those in need, Christopher Joyner leveraged his extensive professional experience in crisis intervention and social services, combined with his expertise as a licensed therapist and degrees in business management, finance, marketing, and social services, to form Revival City LA.
Joyner's personal hardships served as the model for Revival City's multidimensional approach to not only end his cycle of chronic homelessness, but to end chronic homelessness for all.
In his young adult years, Joyner personally experienced chronic poverty and years of incarceration. Once released, Joyner refused to waste his second chance at life. He viewed his second chance as a gift for something greater. Sadly, he quickly found it nearly impossible to rebuild his life because he had no support system to guide him back to his purpose.
Eventually, he overcame these obstacles. Joyner became a recording artist, a social services professional, a devoted father, and an overseas professional basketball player. Though he was fulfilling his lifelong passions, Joyner still had one passion going unfulfilled: helping those in need. He founded Revival City LA, a nonprofit dedicated to rebuilding the lives of those affected by chronic poverty, reigniting their hope, and reclaiming their purpose. He views this organization as his deep personal calling.
Joyner refuses to allow those rebuilding their lives to face the challenges he faced. No community. No sustainable support. He designed to reshape lives with structure, community, compassion, empowerment, emotional support, and hope.
Revival City LA, led by Joyner, not only tirelessly brings change to Los Angeles. The organization is dedicated to bringing light, healing, and hope to those who need it most.
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Lawrence Love specializes in emergency and sustainable housing services within Los Angeles County. His work centers on empowering individuals and families facing homelessness, financial hardship, or crisis to achieve stability, self-sufficiency, and long-term success.
Growing up in South Los Angeles, Love witnessed the effects of poverty firsthand while playing streetball as a child. He instantly wanted to help those in need: low-income households, the homeless, and veterans.
After earning his Bachelor’s in Business Management from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, Love quickly gained professional experience in program planning, staff supervision, compliance monitoring, and multi-agency collaboration to help Los Angeles’s most vulnerable populations.
To create immediate trust with his clients, Love draws from his performing arts background to connect with people on a deeper, personal level. Lawrence Love continuously develops a unique blend of discipline, empathy, and innovation that informs his leadership style today.
These experiences make him an expert in program management and case management.
Love continues to dedicate his career to creating meaningful change through compassion, structure, and strategic leadership in the social services.
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Bishop Frederick Williams has dedicated over 40 years of his life to uplifting and counseling everyone he encounters. Every individual, couple, family, and child fortunate enough to experience him instantly benefits from his wisdom, compassion, and unwavering commitment to confidentiality.
Bishop Williams is often described as humble. His influence speaks volumes. His vast impact is felt locally and globally.
"I am so honored to have Bishop Williams on the Revival City team. For years, he served as my counselor, my father, my friend, and all-around spiritual covering. I am immensely excited for Bishop Williams to be a part of the Revival City community."
–Christopher Joyner
Founder of Revival City
“People need to be reminded that no one is forgotten. Everyone can transform their lives.”
– Christopher Joyner, Founder of Revival City