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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

Lukáš Macura
Lukáš lives in the small town of Třinec in the Czech Republic. He grew up in a Christian family, attending church until he was 12. He became a believer when he was 21-years-old, thanks to the dedication of a missionary family …Read more

Mykola & Anna Semenov
Mykola came to Christ at age 14 in eastern Ukraine. He started to serve his church in the children's ministry and that developed into doing youth ministry. Later, he became a deacon in his church and also led the family …Read more

Terry & Hana English
Terry arrived in the Czech Republic in 1997 to teach English at a Christian language school in the city of Ostrava. During that year, he established an outreach model to reach Czech youth based on rock/gospel choirs and …Read more

Mateja & Nikola Jager Todorovska
Mateja was raised attending a Catholic church and always believed in God. As she searched to know him more, she was drawn into the New Age Movement. She became very involved in the occult and led several New Age groups. In …Read more

Michal & Sylwia Skiba
In 1997, Michal, a young and inexperienced youth leader, was mentored by a Josiah Venture missionary who modeled Christ’s life and ministry. Soon he and his youth group began leading evangelistic English camps to reach their …Read more

Tomáš & Hanka Toušek
Tomáš Toušek is from a Christian family. He put his faith in Christ at 16 years old on a ski outreach trip in Austria through another organization. After that, he started doing ministry in his local church working with young …Read more

Ema Kreko
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

Pavel & Jana Schwarz
Pavel and Jana were married in 2009 and spent their first years of marriage together in Prague. In 2012, after 7 years with General Electric, Pavel accepted the offer to serve with Josiah Venture in organizational development …Read more

Kadri-Kristel & Sven Saagim
Kadri-Kristel served as a Josiah Venture (JV) summer intern in 2021. She had been leading the youth ministry in her home church for two years by that time, and the desire to serve more widely started to grow during the internship. Sven …Read more
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Ioani Dhima Ioani serves on the Josiah Venture (JV) team in Albania, inspiring young people to become responsible, compassionate individuals who follow Christ and contribute to a needy Albanian society.