[2] Josh Baldwin started serving as a worship leader at MorningStar Fellowship Church after attending the ministry school there.

In 2010, Baldwin then joined Queen City Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, serving as worship pastor.

Baldwin then released The War Is Over, his first solo effort with the label in mid-2017 to critical acclaim and the album debuted in the top-three sector of the American and British Christian music charts.

Baldwin, at nineteen-twenty years, was studying at Lee University when he first realized that he wanted to be a worship leader after leading at a youth camp in North Carolina, thus dropping out of Lee University and enrolled at MorningStar Ministry School, attending together with John Mark McMillan and Jonathan David Helser.

[5][6] He was a part of MorningStar Fellowship Church for nine years,[4][7] and he also travelled with artists Rita Springer and Suzy Yaraei working as a drummer.

[9][7] Baldwin then moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, to serve as worship pastor of Queen City Church.

[4] On September 17, 2013, Josh Baldwin launched a Kickstarter funding campaign to raise $12,000 for a new worship album's mixing, mastering, printing, and artwork to be completed.

In 2014, Baldwin went on to sign a record deal with Bethel Music during a week-long visit with his wife to Redding, California after discussions with Brian Johnson, whom he knew since meeting in 2007.