Rev. Joy is the televangelist pastor of The Lord’s Army and a key ally of Mayor Preston Kane. A Pentecostal, Billie came up traveling with his father's and mother’s “big tent revival” tour in his native Scotland—astonishing the crowds as a young man with his passionate and dynamic sermons. Ultimately becoming too fervent and radical for the old country, Joy sought a more receptive audience for his hellfire rhetoric, finding it in America. Gaining initial fame from his appearances on public access television, with his larger-than-life presence and forceful “health, wealth, and prosperity” message, Billie came to extoll the virtues of his adopted homeland-a place he has come to believe is the “New Israel”, with the City of Columbia its “New Jerusalem”. Co-opted into politics when Preston Kane sought his endorsement for his successful mayoral bid, the pastor relishes his newfound power as an advisor to City Hall.

Rev. Joy is the televangelist pastor of The Lord’s Army and a key ally of Mayor Preston Kane. A Pentecostal, Billie came up traveling with his father's and mother’s “big tent revival” tour in his native Scotland—astonishing the crowds as a young man with his passionate and dynamic sermons. Ultimately becoming too fervent and radical for the old country, Joy sought a more receptive audience for his hellfire rhetoric, finding it in America. Gaining initial fame from his appearances on public access television, with his larger-than-life presence and forceful “health, wealth, and prosperity” message, Billie came to extoll the virtues of his adopted homeland-a place he has come to believe is the “New Israel”, with the City of Columbia its “New Jerusalem”. Co-opted into politics when Preston Kane sought his endorsement for his successful mayoral bid, the pastor relishes his newfound power as an advisor to City Hall.