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Adéla Jurčová
Adéla was born into a Christian family in Trutnov, Czech Republic. She gave her life to Christ at the age of 11, and she has been serving at church and working with youth since she was a teenager. Adéla led English camps …Read more

Natalia Starkowska
Natalia heard the gospel for the first time in 2006 and was captured by it. She immediately started volunteering and growing in her local church in Nowy Tomysl, Poland. Since then, she has been watching God’s movement in …Read more

Ranno & Kristiina Seppel
Ranno joined Josiah Venture (JV) in the autumn of 2017. He is working with Josiah Venture’s (JV) partner organization in Estonia (Koma) and is the International leader for Edge Sports. Ranno has been leading soccer camps …Read more

Timotej & Lucia Mahrik
Timo and Lucia grew up in the same church—CB Church in Žilina, Slovakia. Both of their fathers were strongly involved in ministry there; Timo’s dad was a leading pastor and Lucia’s dad was one of the elders. Timo and Lucia …Read more

Tomáš & Hanka Toušek
Tomáš Toušek is from a Christian family. He put his faith in Christ at 16 years old on a ski outreach trip in Austria through another organization. After that, he started doing ministry in his local church working with young …Read more

Michaela & Roman Toušek
Michaela (Misa) has been serving with Josiah Venture (JV) Czech since 2015, after moving with her family to Havirov, where her husband Roman became a local church pastor. She left her job as a teacher and joined the JV team …Read more

Samuel & Šárka Hust
Samuel and Sarka, along with their two children Eliska and Barbora, have been serving with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since April 2005. After finishing an internship at KAM (JV’s partner organization in Czech) …Read more

Petra & Adrian Šulka
Adrian and Petra both come from non-believing families and gave their lives to God, independently of each other, in their teenage years (15 and 20 years). Petra started working with Josiah Venture Slovakia in 2017 through …Read more

Simon Kolesar
Šimon gave his life to Jesus at the age of twelve. At the age of fifteen, he started serving in the Lutheran church in Hanušovce nad Topľou, where he helped with the youth ministry. Later, he became part of the high school …Read more

Ester Lachmanova
Ester started ministry with Josiah Venture (JV) in November 2024. She wrestled with her faith a few years ago; however, after watching the TV series The Chosen, God drew her heart back to him and showed her how he sees her—with …Read more
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