This re-broadcast episode is part of our new series, Black Voices In The Vineyard, which features interviews with Black leaders from around the Vineyard movement. 

Josh Williams is the Lead Pastor of the Elm City Vineyard in New Haven, CT and serves on the Executive Board for Vineyard USA. Originally from Iowa, Josh moved to New Haven to attend Yale and later Yale Divinity School where he earned his M.Div. He was the first intern at the Elm City Vineyard where he started prayer groups on Yale’s campus and established and grew a connection with Agape Church for the Housed and Unhoused. He served as a campus minister at Yale for InterVarsity before becoming ECV’s first full-time Lead Pastor in 2014. He currently lives with his wife Tina and their daughter Zoe in the Edgewood neighborhood of New Haven. In this episode, Josh and our host Adam Russell discuss Josh's reluctant journey into pastoral ministry from his small town Iowa roots to Yale Divinity School. This wide-ranging conversation covers a lot of helpful ground from the power of ministering together with your spouse (Josh's wife is Tina Colón Williams, vocal phenom and previous Ferment podcast guest) to learning to preach like a worship leader to the concept of worship as protest.