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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

Miriam Paszová
Miriam has been serving with Josiah Venture (JV) since April of 2013. In 2006, she had an opportunity to work as a Youth Worker in Western Europe. Some years before that, she also worked as a volunteer in the Czech Republic. …Read more

Agata & Jan Jankowska
Agata was born into a believing family, yet she did not always feel like she belonged to the local church. She did not understand serving the church, because she struggled to imagine how she could serve. As a teenager in …Read more

Kateřina & Daniel Kocyan
Kateřina and Daniel both committed their lives to Jesus as teenagers. At the same time, they felt the calling to serve full time in Christian ministry. Their desire is to see the Czech Republic and Europe transformed by …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

Darius & Bia Bocsa
Darius (Romanian) met his wife Bia (Brazilian) at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Both had a desire and passion to serve the Lord and to make the name of Jesus known. Together, they decided to move to Romania and work …Read more

Barbora Benešová
Barbora decided to follow and give her life to Jesus at a teenage church camp at the age of 13 in Slovakia. Since then, she served with younger and older teens and at KECY (English) camps. In 2018, she moved to Levice where …Read more

Sara & Dawid Kominek
Sara was born as a second generation Christian in her family in the small Polish town of Skoczów. Her journey with youth ministry started at the age of 16 when she began leading her church’s youth group with two other friends …Read more

Bojan Ostojić
Bojan was born into an atheist family in Serbia, which was at that time part of Yugoslavia. He came to know Christ in his senior year of college. After finishing his masters in clinical psychology, he returned to his home …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 through a missionary serving with JV. She discipled …Read more
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See our new staff with a heart for the youth of this region.

New Staff Raising Support

New Staff Raising Support in Canada

Rolavs

Emīls

Other JV Staff Raising Support

Andriiets

Vitalii & Sofia

Cabadaj

Marián & Michaela

Capverde

Alex & Alexandra

Cazacu

Christian & Estera

Gjermeni

Ermal & Nertila

Haas

Garrett & Brittney

Jumerovic

Zvezdan & Tatjana

Kittel

Zuzana & David

Krok

Salomon & Iza

Lausvee

Fred & Heglis

Mészáros

Lucie & Filip

Mitchell

Marcus & Gwen

Protopopov

Pavlo & Maria

Řezníček

Jana & Eduard

Rokosz

Jan & Tereza

Šulka

Petra & Adrian

Szymik

Zuza

Tsonchev

Yoan & Nadia

Tsupik

Vladyslav & Yelyzaveta

Valentini

Viktor & Miriam

Ward

Sarah

Wilkosz

Bartek

Yakubiv

Iryna

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

Chelsey Dean Chelsey is thrilled to be a part of the Josiah Venture family and to partner with a local church to disciple and enable young leaders to accomplish Christ's commission.

Support a national missionary

Anna Janoušková Anna’s passions for education and youth ministry intertwine in her role as specialist in ForMission College and as a discipler of young women.