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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

Daniel & Kristýna Pípal
Daniel and Kristýna met for the first time at Hotel Malenovice in the Czech Republic during a youth conference. A few years later, they got married in 2010. They joined cell churches (communities) and started doing Christian …Read more

Szczepan & Kamila Cackowski
Szczepan was born to a Christian family in northwest Poland. His journey with youth ministry started at age 15 when he began co-leading his church’s youth group. For many years, he served and discipled young people, as well …Read more

Mára & Kseniya Dušek
Kseniya and Mára both met Jesus at Josiah Venture (JV) camps in 2012. Kseniya in Ukraine; Mára in the Czech Republic. They, then, met each other in 2017 at the JV Media Academy and got married in 2018. Kseniya and Mára …Read more

Sebastian & Gloria Forjan
Sebastian, raised Catholic, attended church as almost every Slovene but didn’t believe in God. In 1995, he put his faith in Christ. While he served in the army for nine months, God put a burden on his heart for the youth …Read more

Petar & Femke Tatarski
Petar (from Bulgaria) and Femke (from the Netherlands) met in Velingrad, Bulgaria in August of 2014. Femke was serving with a team from her church and Petar was working with Josiah Venture's partner organization in Bulgaria—True …Read more

Dušan & Dana Drabina
Dusan and Dana have been married since 2008. Dusan has been serving with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since January 2004. Dusan got his Master’s Degree in Economics in Prague and Diploma in Business Administration …Read more

Andrejs & Agnese Goloborodko
In 2009, Andrejs and Agnese met each other and both came to know Christ through their local church. They served as leaders on the youth ministry team for three years, where their love for students continued to grow. They …Read more

Raimonds & Marta Logins
Raimonds grew up in a small community in eastern Latvia, where he became a follower of Jesus through a youth ministry in a local church. Still a teenager himself, he started leading youth in that same ministry until he eventually …Read more

Juljan & Suela Muhameti
Juljan was 14 years old when when he become Christian. Since his family was culturally Muslim, Juljan first found a copy of the Koran and read it cover to cover. The god described there seemed cruel and impossible to please. …Read more
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Benešová

Barbora

Bimaj

Bimaj

Ermal & Denisa

Břešťák

Břešťák

Klára & David

Budd

Budd

Julia

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Butowicz

Butowicz

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Čížková

Čížková

Bára

Dušek

Dušek

Mára & Kseniya

Fedyk

Fedyk

Iryna

Hunnicutt

Hunnicutt

Kingsley

Jankowska

Jankowska

Agata & Jan

Keice

Keice

Lelde

King

King

Alex

Kocyan

Kocyan

Kateřina & Daniel

Kreko

Kreko

Ema

Linkesch

Linkesch

Peter

Linkesch

Marek

Mahrik

Mahrik

Timotej & Lucia

Matei

Matei

Ion

Michalski

Michalski

Sebastian

Mitchell

Mitchell

Marcus & Gwen

Myjavec

Myjavec

Miloš

Neacsu

Neacsu

Ruxandra

Newhouse

Newhouse

Moriah

Ohnesorg

Ohnesorg

Ross & Julie

Peste

Peste

Tino & Cristiana

Petkov

Petkov

Solomon

Polláková

Polláková

Ivana

Rokosz

Rokosz

Jan & Tereza

Ryńska

Ryńska

Alicja

Sabová

Sabová

Simona

Short

Short

Tiffany

Šimočko

Šimočko

Juraj & Miriam

Soukup

Soukup

Michal

Stoitseva

Stoitseva

Elisaveta

Szymik

Szymik

Zuza

Toušek

Toušek

Tomáš & Hanka

Trninić

Trninić

Anđelko & Kristina

Tsonchev

Tsonchev

Yoan & Nadia

Udrea

Udrea

Alin

Williams

Williams

Paul & Molli

Zheleva

Zheleva

Lyubov

Zveja

Zveja

Paula

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

Welcome our new staff

Solomon Petkov Sunny is excited about working with the people in his country, reaching this generation for Jesus and discipling next-generation leaders. He will combine his heart for the local church and passion for athletics in the role of Bulgaria’s EDGE Football national coordinator.

Support a national missionary

Flaviu & Lidia Coman Flaviu is pastoring two churches in the southeastern part of Romania, leading Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Romania, leads the youth department for the southeastern Pentecostal Union, and his wife Lidia is leading the discipleship ministry for women in their local church.