Josh was blessed to grow up in a Christian home where he was taught the Bible from a young age, and at the age of 8, after listening to the radio dramatization "Unshackled," Josh talked with his Dad about eternity and prayed and asked the Lord for forgiveness and accepted the free gift of salvation.

As Josh grew older, he thought he was doing "pretty good" spiritually for his age, but during his high school years, the Lord brought a friend into Josh's life who was striving to grow closer to the Lord and encouraged him to keep learning. Josh decided to start taking seminary-level classes through the CGBCI School of Theology.

Initially, he just audited the classes for the Bible knowledge. The longer he took classes he realized he should start taking them for credit so he could be prepared for whatever the Lord called him to. He graduated from high school in 2009 and although he still was not planning on being in full-time ministry, he continued to take practorium classes part-time while working full-time in construction.
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In the Spring of 2013, Josh felt the Lord leading him to start heading toward the mission field. In July 2016, He graduated from the CGBCI School of Theology with a Certificate of Theology. In August 2016, he began the missionary training program in Ontario, Canada offered by New Tribes Mission. While in Canada, God brought Autumn Arp into his life, and their friendship deepened over the course of their first year of study. Josh graduated from the missionary training center in December 2017, and in March 2018, he had the great blessing of marrying Autumn.

Josh and Autumn moved to Papua New Guinea in January 2020 to begin serving on a church-planting team with the goal of bringing the gospel and the word of God to an unreached people group. They long to see God call these people to Himself and establish a church there.