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Alicja Ryńska
Ala’s journey with Josiah Venture (JV) started in 2018 when her local church partnered with JV to do its first English Camp. During camp, she heard about the JV internship. A year later, she served as a summer intern in …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

Elyse Jackson
Elyse is passionate about helping young people find ways to make meaningful contributions in their families, churches, and worlds. She has been doing that through serving with Josiah Venture since 2018. She has primarily …Read more

Baiba & Aleksandrs Kenigsvalde
When Baiba was 15, she became a believer through the local youth group. Two years later, she joined a local church youth-leader team and was introduced to Josiah Venture (JV) through a missionary serving with them. At the …Read more

Ema Lee
Ema has been serving in the local church in Zagreb, Croatia as a youth leader for over a decade now. She first heard of Josiah Venture (JV) and their ministry in Central and Eastern Europe at an English camp in 2006. She …Read more

Dušan & Lucie Geldner
Dušan and Lucie first met in a church in Prague in 2007, when both were working in business. Dušan was also involved in sports ministry with Athletes in Action. He served as a volleyball coach at their summer sports camps …Read more

Noemi Bednarzova
Noemi grew up in a Christian family. She lives in Ropice and takes care of 4 children - twins Simeon and Sára (16 years old), Miriam (13 years old), Rebeka (11 years old). Her first contact with Josiah Venture (JV) was …Read more

Sebastian Michalski
Sebastian was born into a Catholic family in Mysłowice, Poland. He fully understood, truly accepted the gospel, and accepted Jesus into his life when he was 17 years old. Five years later, Sebastian heard about Fusion Katowice …Read more

Ermal & Nertila Gjermeni
Ermal has served as a pastor in the church of the Nazarene in Gorre, Lushnje, Albania since 2011. His core ministries are youth and sports. From an early age, God used football to bring Ermal into his plan. Now, he uses …Read more

Svyatoslav & Khrystya Garvas
Svyatoslav (Syava) has lived in Lviv, Ukraine all his life. He came to know Christ through a youth program at New Life church. Almost immediately after, he began to serve in the youth ministry, where he met his future wife. …Read more
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Welcome our new staff

Andrii & Tanya Ivaniuk Andriii and Tanya Ivaniuk serve on the Josiah Venture team in Ukraine, Andrii on the EDGE sports team and Tanya mentoring girls. They both serve in their local church in Rivne.

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Urh & Doroteja Kolar Urh and Doroteja both serve on Josiah Venture’s team in Slovenia, Urh leading their local Celje youth group and Doroteja leading Fusion Celje.