Ep. 16 - Josh Watt - Lead Pastor, Redemption North Mountain

Today we’re talking to Josh Watt, the Lead Pastor of Redemption North Mountain. Watt was the Next Generation pastor at Redemption Gateway and planted Redemption North Mountain which launched January 2021.

During this episode we talk about:

• growing up in Arizona
• the spiritual temperature of his childhood home
• finding out he’s adopted and being told the Gospel by his birth mom
• how his parents’ divorce shaped him
• Grand Canyon University, Baylor University and being a teacher
• meeting his wife, Aubrey, at college group at Redemption Gilbert (formerly East Valley Bible Church)
• his transition from being a math teacher to a pastor including moving from Texas back to Arizona
• leading students at Redemption Gateway and somehow convincing new volunteers to commit to student ministry for seven years
• starting the process of planting the next Redemption congregation
• how the decision to plant in North Phoenix came to be
• planting a church at the start of the 2020 pandemic
• what has been hard, surprising and good about church planting