My name is Joshua and my heart swells and shatters for this next generation of youth and children. To see them walk in the wholeness of their God-given identity, and the fullness of their royal inheritance, is the mountain I will die on. I have a burning passion for God’s Word and to see others come alive and encounter the Living God through His living Word. I also like to climb on tall rocks and spend as much time as I can around a table with those I love.

Before moving to Mae Sot, Thailand, I had spent the better part of a decade traveling the world, participating in international missions, and living within mission-minded communities with the intent of seeing His Kingdom come and His will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Throughout all of my experiences within the countless places the Lord has taken me, I have seen first hand just how far God’s goodness will go to overtake the darkest of places and how He invites us to be an essential part of His solution to transform this broken world into wholeness. It was when He brought me here, along the border of Thailand and Burma, where He broke my heart the hardest. While looking upon the many babies and children who had been labeled with statelessness and abandonment along the border, and the countless lives displaced and uprooted by 70+ years of war and tyranny, I knew I couldn't live with myself if I didn’t do something about it.

After wrestling with the Lord on how to find a solution to such atrocities, He placed me in the position I am in today. At the start of 2024, I joined the team here at Outpour to work directly with our Refuge Youth Home. It has been my life’s greatest honor serving and discipling these youth. I believe they, and many others like them, are a major part of God’s plan to heal and restore a hurt and bleeding nation. They are the Oaks of Righteousness spoken of in Isaiah 61 who will REBUILD, RAISE UP, and REPAIR, the desolations of many generations. It is my life’s mission to see these Oaks bloom.