As people, we are able to endure a great deal of discomfort, inconvenience, and even pain, if we’re properly incentivized. An athlete, motivated by a potential gold medal, will endure hours of laborious training. A student, envisioning a framed diploma on his wall, will study for days on end. A soldier, dreaming of peace, leaves her family and friends for the trials of deployment. While physical training, academic study, and military service are all difficult in the present, those involved in each activity are able to brave those hardships because of the hope of what lays in the future if they remain faithful. The same is true for the disciple of Jesus Christ—it’s the glory of what is to come that helps us endure what is.
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Josiah has served the Oakridge Bible Chapel family as one of its elders and one of its pastoral staff members since September 2018, before which he ministered as an associate pastor to a local congregation in the Canadian prairies. Josiah's desire is to be used by God to help equip the church for ministry, both while gathered (edification) and while scattered (evangelization). He is married to Patricia, and together they have five children—Jonah, Henry, Nathaniel, Josephine, and Benjamin.
