A native Atlantan and UGA graduate, Josh received his Master of Divinity degree from the Candler School of Theology at Emory. He was commissioned as a provisional elder in 2013 and an ordained elder in full connection in 2016. Josh served as a young adult minister, youth director and assistant pastor at churches in Texas and Atlanta before being appointed to DUMC in 2015. He and his wife, Lindsey, have three children.