The Rev. Whis Hays is the founder and Executive Director of Rock the World Youth Mission Alliance and inventor of Josiah Project. He has been in student ministry since 1972 as a layman and as a priest. He has served in parishes, summer camps and university chaplaincy. As part of his ministry through Rock the World he taught courses in Youth Ministry, Evangelism, and Missions at Trinity School for Ministry from 1991-2006. He is married to the Rev. Canon Dr. Mary Maggard Hays (Canon for Clergy and Congregational Care for the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic) who has put up with him for 44 years. They have two adult children who continue to follow Jesus and six grandchildren.