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Joshua is one of the founders of the largest Christian groups in Iran today. It is estimated that Joshua led over 100,000 converted Christians in Iran in 2025. Iranian Underground House Churches, “IUHC” is one of the largest Christian groups in Iran. Established in 2005, despite the risk of persecution , IUHC played a significant role in spreading the gospel and converting Muslims to christianity in Iran and organizing them.
IUHC is the only Natural Christian organization in Iran, It started with people from inside of Iran and lead’s and run by people from inside of Iran and focused on strengthening and expanding the church among Persian-speaking communities.
Joshua was born into an affluent, religiously devout Muslim family. At the age of 9-15, Joshua became a good wrestler, and he memorized 2/3 of the Quran. At very young age Joshua rejected Islam in his mid-teens, while still not know anything about Christianity, he claimed he was a Christian. He was arrested and sentenced to 91 days in adult prison because of his claim.
After a rebellious youth he converted to Christianity and focused on his business and grew in his faith. In 2004-5, he officially began his ministry with the homeless and addicted of Tehran(Iran), and that shaped his first underground house churches. In 2006, Joshua started smuggling Gospel from Iraq and Turkey into Iran. In the same year, Joshua was arrested, tortured, and incarcerated in the notorious Evin Prison for 15 months. During that time, his group grew to 600 members.
Very soon Joshua’s ministry had more than 3,000 members. Because of security and safety concerns, Joshua left Tehran and moved to the northwest of Iran and continued his ministry. In 2011, Joshua was forced to leave Iran and flee to Turkey. In that time estimated that Joshua’s ministry had about 18,000 members. In 2011-14, Joshua was a refugee in Turkey while attending seminaries to grow in his faith, he established another house church in Turkey for the refugee community.
In June 2014, His journey as a refugee brought Joshua to the U.S. in Lansing, Michigan. In 2017, Joshua was adopted by a devoted American Christian family, and together, they established the nonprofit organization “Go and Do” in the United States to represent the IUHC.
After learning English and Graduation,Joshua works as a Faculty in college in the US. In 2022, Joshua Published his first book “Becoming Joshua” and in 2026 he published his second book “Seven Colors of Heaven”. During his 9 years career as a faculty in the USA Joshua helped more than 2,300 Muslim students with love and acceptance and converted more than 184 Muslim students to Christianity. Joshua never earned any money from his position as a Pastor and founder of IUHC, he also donate more than 60% of his income (from his job as a faculty & personal investments) to the IUHC. His main view as a Pastor and leader is , “You received free, give it Free”- Matthew 10:8