Joshua Maez Ministries
About Joshua
A husband and a father of four who preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ in public places on California's Central Coast. This is how that started.
Before any of this, there was addiction.
Joshua was addicted to drugs and alcohol. He says it plainly, without drama and without excuses, because it is simply what was true.
There was an emptiness in him that nothing he tried could fill. Not the substances, not anything else he reached for. He was not on a search for religion and he was not trying to clean himself up first. He was stuck, the way a lot of people reading this are stuck.
Then Jesus set him free.
Jesus Christ set him free from drugs and alcohol. Not a program, not willpower, not a fresh start he manufactured for himself. Joshua is quick to say that none of it was his own doing, and he has never told it any other way.
What filled the emptiness was not a better version of the old life. It was a new one, and it came with something to do: tell people who have not heard.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”2 Corinthians 5:17
It started with a sign in a parking lot.
Gospel tracts handed to strangers. Then a handmade sign that read “Need Prayer?” held up in parking lots across Texas. No stage, no program, no budget.
People stopped. Some of them cried. Most of them had been carrying something alone for a long time and had nobody to tell.
That is still the heart of it. One person willing to stand in public and be available to whoever walks by.
The work moved to the Central Coast.
God kept opening doors, so the work moved to the Central Coast of California. Now it is parking lots, boardwalks, sidewalks and beaches, wherever people already are.
Open-air preaching. Conversations that last two minutes or an hour. Praying with anyone who asks. It will keep going wherever He leads next.
His family and his church are part of the work.
Joshua is a husband and a father of four. The family is part of this work rather than something separate from it.
He and his family attend Central Coast Church. This ministry exists to serve local churches, not to replace them. If you are on the Central Coast and looking for a church home, ask and we will help you find one.
centralcoastchurch.comMost people will never walk into a church.
Plenty of people will never walk through the doors of a church. If the gospel is going to reach them, somebody has to carry it out to where they already are.
Joshua is not the point of any of this. Jesus is, and he would be the first to say so.
The same Jesus is offering you the same thing.
What happened to Joshua was not reserved for him. If you want to know who Jesus is and what He did, start here. It takes about five minutes.