{"id":3950,"date":"2011-12-05T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:02:59","slug":"rev-josh-patty-99-moves-to-new-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/12\/05\/rev-josh-patty-99-moves-to-new-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Josh Patty \u201999 moves to new church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Josh Patty \u201999 is now the senior pastor of Eastgate Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Independence, MO. Josh received his bachelor\u2019s degree from Wabash College and his master\u2019s of divinity degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School. \u00a0\u00a0He was ordained in the Illinois\/Wisconsin Region and moved to Eastgate from the Central Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, in Fairmont, W.Va.\u00a0 Josh delivered his first sermon in Independence on December 4.\u00a0 An installation service is planned for a later date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Josh was\u00a0active in numerous activities and organizations as a student on campus, but always knew what his career choice would be:\u00a0 \u201c. . .\u00a0Though he brought with him to Wabash a passion for music and interests in debate, law, and journalism, his strong interest in religion hit him like a brick during the second semester of his sophomore year.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;[Josh}\u00a0had heard that our religion department had one of the best undergraduate teaching faculties in the nation and thought I couldn&#8217;t pass up the chance to take some classes.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/magazine\/1999\/winter\/features\/works_in_progress.htm\">Click<\/a> here to read the entire feature story from the winter 1999 <em>Wabash Magazine<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Josh Patty \u201999 is now the senior pastor of Eastgate Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Independence, MO. Josh received his bachelor\u2019s degree from Wabash College and his master\u2019s of divinity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}