Josh is a Korean American who grew up in Chihuahua, Mexico. He previously served with children and youth at Christ Church New Haven, Trinity Baptist Church (New Haven, Connecticut), and the Church of Southland (Anaheim, California). After graduating from Swarthmore College, he received an MDiv from Yale University and an MA in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine (where he is also a PhD candidate, writing a dissertation on the meaning of life).