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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

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

Indrek-Eliel & Regina Tambek
Indrek-Eliel Tambek began volunteering with the leadership training program held by Koma, Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Estonia, back in 2011. Around the same time, he also began serving in the ministry of football …Read more

Vladyslav & Yelyzaveta Tsupik
Vlad was born in Luhansk to believing parents. He followed Jesus during a church camp in 2011 and began to serve on the worship team playing electric guitar. When the war started in 2014, Vlad moved with his family to Lviv …Read more

Lucie & Filip Mészáros
Lucie comes from a family of nonbelievers from a small town in the Czech Republic. She started to seek God through a missionary ministry in her town, and, as a result, she believes that the key to sharing the gospel is a …Read more

Alicja Ryńska
Ala’s journey with Josiah Venture (JV) started in 2018 when her local church partnered with JV to do its first English Camp. During camp, she heard about the JV internship. A year later, she served as a summer intern in …Read more

Jany & Lenka Šimočko
Jany accepted Christ in 2001 at the age of 16. Two years later, Jany joined his youth group’s leadership team to help organize their first English camp in Prešov, Slovakia. In 2006, Jany took the leadership role for his …Read more

Ieva Ābola
Ieva was introduced to Josiah Venture while leading an English camp in her country of Latvia in 2010. She served for three summers as a national intern and saw firsthand the need for purpose and meaning in the faces of the …Read more

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 the local Czech church and, consequently, Ondra and …Read more

Timotej & Lucia Mahrik
Timo and Lucia grew up in the same church—CB Church in Žilina, Slovakia. Both of their fathers were strongly involved in ministry there; Timo’s dad was a leading pastor and Lucia’s dad was one of the elders. Timo and Lucia …Read more
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2012 Advance Conference - Everyday Church

The 2012 Advance Conference was held in Malenovice, Czech Republic on February 20-24 and the theme was "Everyday Church." It was designed to help church leaders across the region establish, transition, and expand their local communities of believers as they live for Christ in the everyday.

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2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Discipleship

20 February 2012 | Tim Chester

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2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Discipleship

20 February 2012 | Tim Chester Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Father

21 February 2012 | Tim Chester

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2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Father

21 February 2012 | Tim Chester Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Main Session - A Church Planting Movement That Changes a Country

22 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis

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2012 Advance - Main Session - A Church Planting Movement That Changes a Country

22 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Son

23 February 2012 | Tim Chester

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2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Son

23 February 2012 | Tim Chester Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Main Session - Growing an Everyday Church, The Tacoma Story

23 February 2016 | Caesar Kalinowski

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2012 Advance - Main Session - Growing an Everyday Church, The Tacoma Story

23 February 2016 | Caesar Kalinowski Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Spirit

24 February 2012 | Tim Chester

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2012 Advance - Main Session - Everyday Spirit

24 February 2012 | Tim Chester Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Establish - Creating a Unified Direction

21 February 2012

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2012 Advance - Establish - Creating a Unified Direction

21 February 2012 Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Establish - Four Liberating Truths

21 February 2012 | Tim Chester

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2012 Advance - Establish - Four Liberating Truths

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2012 Advance - Establish - Called to Reproduce

22 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis

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2012 Advance - Establish - Called to Reproduce

22 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Establish - Building Missional Communities

23 February 2012 | Theo Bunescu, Caesar Kalinowski

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2012 Advance - Establish - Building Missional Communities

23 February 2012 | Theo Bunescu, Caesar Kalinowski Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Establish - Starting Multiple Churches

23 February 2012 | Miro Toth

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2012 Advance - Establish - Starting Multiple Churches

23 February 2012 | Miro Toth Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Establish - How to Start and How Not to Start

24 February 2012 | Daniel Hurta

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2012 Advance - Establish - How to Start and How Not to Start

24 February 2012 | Daniel Hurta Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Transition - Transioning to a Missional Focus

21 February 2012 | Caesar Kalinowski

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2012 Advance - Transition - Transioning to a Missional Focus

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2012 Advance - Transition - Reforming Without Revolution

21 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis

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2012 Advance - Transition - Reforming Without Revolution

21 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Transition - Lessons from the Early Years

22 February 2012 | Dan Hash

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2012 Advance - Transition - Lessons from the Early Years

22 February 2012 | Dan Hash Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Transition - Four Liberating Truths

23 February 2012 | Tim Chester

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2012 Advance - Transition - Four Liberating Truths

23 February 2012 | Tim Chester Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Transition - Equipping Your Team

23 February 2012 | Dave Patty

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2012 Advance - Transition - Equipping Your Team

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2012 Advance - Transition - Group Development and Multiplication

24 February 2012

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2012 Advance - Transition - Group Development and Multiplication

24 February 2012 Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Expand - Called to Reproduce

20 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis

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2012 Advance - Expand - Called to Reproduce

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2012 Advance - Expand - How to Plant While You are Still Young

21 February 2012 | Daniel Hurta

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2012 Advance - Expand - How to Plant While You are Still Young

21 February 2012 | Daniel Hurta Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Expand - Mission Drifts and Reproducibility

22 February 2012 | Caesar Kalinowski, Todd Morr

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2012 Advance - Expand - Mission Drifts and Reproducibility

22 February 2012 | Caesar Kalinowski, Todd Morr Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Expand - The Essential Engine

23 February 2012 | Dave Patty

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2012 Advance - Expand - The Essential Engine

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2012 Advance - Expand - Group Development and Multiplication

23 February 2012

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2012 Advance - Expand - Group Development and Multiplication

23 February 2012 Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Expand - Questions and Answers

24 February 2012

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2012 Advance - Expand - Questions and Answers

24 February 2012 Download: Download Audio

Welcome our new staff

Dominik & Simona Danciu Dominik and Simona live in Targoviste, Dambovita in Romania where they serve and make disciples in their local church, serve with the JV EDGE Sports team in Romania, and Simona also helps the JV Romanian team nationally with administration.

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Timotej & Lucia Mahrik Timo is joining Josiah Venture Slovakia as Executive Director of Operations and Lucia is a high school teacher. They currently live and serve in Žilina.