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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

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

Jiří & Jana Jedlička
Jirka Jedlička, widely known as JJ, was born in South Bohemia. For 20 years, he lived in Prague but he and his family currently make their home in a city in the Czech Highlands known as Trebic (Trzebeach). After working …Read more

Petra Barbořáková
Petra grew up in a Christian home and she knew a lot about God and His love, as well as the Bible. When she was 17 years old, she realized that she needed God fully in her life and made the decision to follow Him anywhere …Read more

Ranno & Kristiina Seppel
Ranno joined JV in the autumn of 2017. He is working with Josiah Venture’s (JV) partner organization in Estonia (Koma). Ranno has been leading soccer camps for six years, and he desires to see God move among the youth through …Read more

Jirka & Zuzana Folta
Jirka and Zuzka started to serve together in a one year discipleship program for young people called Faith in Action in July 2013 and they were married in August 2014. They both come from non-Christian families. Jirka became …Read more

Lelde Keice
Lelde was 14 when she became a Christian at a youth camp, and was first introduced to Josiah Venture in her second year of high school when her local pastor encouraged her to go to a leadership training run by JV Latvia. …Read more

Nadiya & Artem Vorobyovy
Nadya 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

Edgars & Anete Deksnis
Edgars and Anete are serving in Latvia as JV country leaders. They both became followers of Jesus Christ through North American churches more than 10 years ago and that's why they have a deep appreciation of short-term teams …Read more

Andrii & Yulia Polonnikov
Andriy was born in Lviv, Ukraine, where he has spent his whole life. He began attending church through a friend. Through a summer camp ministry, Andriy started to understand what it meant to live with the Lord when he was …Read more
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Marcus & Gwen Mitchell Once they move to Hungary in 2021, Marcus and Gwen will be coordinating camp ministries, establishing partnerships between U.S. churches and local Hungarian churches, coordinating mission teams coming to Hungary, and serving in their local church.

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Kateřina Tichá Káťa was first captured by the gospel at a JV English camp in 2009. After years of being involved with camp ministry in Prague, she now lives in Cesky Tesin and serves on JV's International Team.