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Ivana Polláková
God was making Himself known to Ivana since her childhood through a Bible for children, Sunday school, and religion classes. However, it took her several years to start following Christ. While in high school, she started …Read more

Peter & Katka Michalčik
Peter started full-time ministry with Training Center Kompas (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Slovakia) in 2004. Prior to this, Peter was a physics teacher and spent his free time with his youth group. Passionate …Read more

Petr & Lauren Božoň
Petr and Lauren first met in 2000, when Lauren was teaching English at a language school in Frydlant, Czech Republic. Growing up in a non-Christian home in communist Czechoslovakia, Petr trusted Christ in 2002, while attending …Read more

Ondřej & Anna Szturc
In 2013, Ondra participated in a year-long internship program with KAM (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in the Czech Republic) called Journey. He has a passion for Czech local churches. Ondra is lead pastor in his …Read more

Andrej & Nina Lovše
Andrej and Nina met as teens in their hometown of Maribor, Slovenia. Nina was the first to accept Christ as a result of missionaries sharing Christ outside her high school. A few years later, Andrej became a believer and …Read more

Tsvetan & Maia Stoitsev
Tsvetan and Maia have been serving in the youth movement with their church’s union for the last 30 years. They have been married for 25 years and have two kids, Georgi and Evgenia. During the previous several years, while …Read more

Zuzana & David Kittel
Zuzka was born to a non-believing family in the Czech republic. After 6 years of searching, she found God, thanks to her youth leaders. She gave her life to Jesus and was baptized—the best decisions she ever made. From that …Read more

Tomáš & Lucie Nevřela
Lucie joined Josiah Venture in March of 2006 and worked for the Exit316 project. In 2008, she joined a team of Czech women serving young female leaders through discipleship and coaching. She also worked in the KAM office …Read more

Nadiya & Artem Vorobyova
Nadiya first came in contact with Josiah Venture in 2008 through an English camp at Christ Fellowship Church in Lviv, Ukraine. Doing these camps several years in a row opened her heart to the youth in her city. While looking …Read more

Serhii Bielov
Serhii grew up in a religious family in a city near Kyiv, Ukraine; however, he truly accepted Christ when he was 19. This path was not easy—he walked away from small addictions to freedom through salvation. In 2020, he …Read more
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See our new staff with a heart for the youth of this region.

New Staff Raising Support

Andriiets

Vitaliy & Sofia

Arnold

Hayley

Bella

Szabolcs & Maggie

Bielov

Serhii

Blažek

Daniel

Boldura

Gabriel & Iulia

Bowman

Paul & Val

Bradford

Mitchell & Rebecca

Brazhdi

Sajmir & Irma

Cabadaj

Marián & Michaela

Cazacu

Christian & Estera

Ciorescu

Dorin & Anastasia

Danciu

Dominik & Simona

Dhima

Ioani

Drábková

Barbora

Gjermeni

Ermal & Nertila

Herghelegiu

Alexandru

Hinrichs

Peter

Iordache

Damaris

Ivaniuk

Andrii & Tanya

Jumerovic

Zvezdan & Tatjana

Kittel

Zuzana & David

Kolesar

Simon

Kovalov

Oleksandr & Svitlana

Krok

Salomon

Kubelka

David & Lucie

Lachmanova

Ester

Leech

Catherine

Macura

Lukáš

Mészáros

Lucie & Filip

Moldovan

Ruben

Moldovan

Timotei

Müller

Sven

Nicolae

Gabriel & Naomi

Oaie

Adina

Pham

Pavel

Protopopov

Pavlo & Maria

Rokosz

Jan & Tereza

Rolavs

Emīls

Rubtsova

Liudmyla

Saagim

Kadri-Kristel & Sven

Skyba

Serhii & Yana

Slobodnychenko

Evan & Olena

Smolarczyk

Zuzanna

Smyček

Zuzana & Jakub

Spieß

Kilian

Šulka

Petra & Adrian

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Bálint

Szloboda

Viktor & Eva

Taracinska

Karina

Tokarska

Zuzanna

Tsonchev

Yoan & Nadia

Tsupik

Vladyslav & Yelyzaveta

Valentini

Viktor & Miriam

Vauhnik

Grega

Vecerik

Lukas & Daniela

Wilkosz

Bartek

God continues to bless JV with exceptional new staff that have a heart for the youth of Central and Eastern Europe. All of our new staff are raising support to serve on the field full-time.

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Emīls Rolavs Emīls is leading the Josiah Venture Fusion ministry in Riga and helping all of the other Fusion groups in Latvia, while leading a local Fusion in the capital— equipping leaders and discipling teenagers in a local church in Riga.

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Petar & Femke Tatarski Petar Tatarski serves on the Josiah Venture team in Bulgaria with a vision to use wilderness ministry as a transformative experience with God. Femke and Petar are very active in their local church and want to see Bulgarian churches actively reaching and discipling the young generation.