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'''Joshua Joy Dara, Sr.''', usually known as '''Joy Dara''' (born March 1959),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3698818|title=Joshua Dara, March 1959|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref> is an [[African-American]] [[lawyer]], [[Christianity|Christian]] pastor, and musician/recording artist in his adopted city of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]. His congregation is the 3,000-member Zion Hill Church, one of the largest in Central Louisiana.

'''Joshua Joy Dara, Sr.''', usually known as '''Joy Dara''' (born March 1959),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3698818|title=Joshua Dara, March 1959|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref> is an [[African-American]] [[lawyer]], [[Christianity|Christian]] pastor, and musician/recording artist in his adopted city of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], [[Louisiana]]. His congregation is the 3,000-member Zion Hill Church, one of the largest in Central Louisiana.

A native of [[Nigeria]]m Dara migrated to the United States in 1980, the same year in which he was called to the ministry. He became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He holds an [[Associate of Arts]] degree from the Kwara State College of Technology and Basic Studies in Nigeria. He earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from the [[California Baptist University]] at [[Riverside]], [[California]]. He received his Juris Doctorate from the historically black Southern University College of Law in [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana. He obtained the Masters of Law degree from the [[University of Arkansas]] School of Law in Fayetteville in northwestern Arkansas.<ref name=jdara/> He is licensed to practice law in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in [[New Orleans]] and the Eighth Circuit in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref name=jdara/>

A native of [[Nigeria]]m Dara migrated to the United States in 1980, the same year in which he was called to the ministry. He became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He holds an Associate of Arts degree from the Kwara State College of Technology and Basic Studies in Nigeria. He earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from the California Baptist University at [[Riverside]], [[California]]. He received his Juris Doctorate from the historically black Southern University College of Law in [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana. He obtained the Masters of Law degree from the [[University of Arkansas]] School of Law in Fayetteville in northwestern Arkansas.<ref name=jdara/> He is licensed to practice law in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in [[New Orleans]] and the Eighth Circuit in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref name=jdara/>

In 1985, Dara wed Elizabeth Joy Dara, who graduated from a teacher's college in Nigeria and holds a Bachelor of Science in physical therapy from Louisiana College in Pineville. The couple has five children.<ref name=jdara/>

In 1985, Dara wed Elizabeth Joy Dara, who graduated from a teacher's college in Nigeria and holds a Bachelor of Science in physical therapy from Louisiana College in Pineville. The couple has five children.<ref name=jdara/>

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