Yoan & Nadia Tsonchev

Leah and Radost

Yoan and Nadia met for the first time at Sunday School. Yoan is a Pastor’s child and is a 3rd generation Christian. At 18, he received his calling from God to minister to young people and dedicate himself to youth ministry. Nadia’s family came to know God as Savior during the great revival of the 90s. At 20, he married Nadia, continuing their ministry in the youth group as a family.

As a music-loving person, she dreamed of serving unbelievers with the music the Lord gives us and believed that one day they would be able to serve that way! They prayed that God would open the door to serve him full-time.

A few years ago, they attended the JV fall conference in the Czech Republic, where Yoan heard about Fusion and how this ministry is changing the lives of young people in Europe. That’s when Yoan exclaimed, “I want this in Bulgaria!”

For three years now, Yoan and Nadia have been serving and have been responsible for Fusion Sofia as volunteers, and they work and sustain their family with their business. Recently, they were asked to become full-time members of Istinski Horizonti’s team (JV’s partner organization in Bulgaria) and assume the national coordination of Fusion for Bulgaria. In addition, they are youth pastors, are heavily involved at Resurrection and Life Church in Sofia, and are leaders on a national level. Yoan was also a youth national pastor for the ministry of the denomination—Church of God—for 5 years in Bulgaria.

They were part of different church plants through their ministry and helped churches all over Bulgaria build their youth groups and worship teams. Their passion is to reach the younger generation of Bulgarians through music and worship, and see disciples who make disciples!

They have been married for almost 15 very exciting years and have two wonderful daughters – Leah (13) and Radost (8), and a son Johnathan (1).