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Svyatoslav & Khrystya Garvas
Svyatoslav (Syava) has lived in Lviv, Ukraine his entire life. He came to know Jesus through a youth outreach program at New Life Church, which has become like a family to him. Syava has been serving in youth ministry for …Read more

Inguna Raudina
Ingūna grew up in Riga, the capital city of Latvia. She became a Christian when she was seventeen through a local church youth ministry and served on the youth team for many years. It is here that she first learned about …Read more

Anna Janoušková
Anna first encountered Josiah Venture in 2007 when she attended her first English camp as a teenager wrestling with her faith. Because of this experience, her view of God was significantly impacted, and her faith deepened. …Read more

Zuza Szymik
Zuza grew up in Poland. She believed in God from a very young age, but most of her life she was surrounded by people who thought God is only for Sunday mornings. She wanted to live differently. Her dream was to meet other …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

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—Istinski …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

Iryna Fedyk
Iryna was raised in a home where no one talked about God. The first time Iryna ever heard about God was in a Christian Ethics class at school. That began to change once Iryna first got connected to Josiah Venture in 2014—when …Read more

Urh & Doroteja Kolar
Doroteja and Urh both grew up in Slovenia, but in very different families. Neither of them believed in God growing up, but came to know Jesus through Josiah Venture's (JV) summer camps. They met at a JV Fusion Camp in 2013. …Read more

Kateřina Tichá
Káťa comes from a non-Christian Czech family and her first experience with Josiah Venture (JV) was at an English camp in 2009. She heard the gospel for the first time and was captured by it. She kept coming back to camp …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

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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

21 February 2012 | Tim Chester Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Establish - Called to Reproduce

22 February 2012 | Peteris Sprogis

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2012 Advance - Establish - Called to Reproduce

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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

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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

23 February 2012 | Dave Patty Download: Download Audio

2012 Advance - Expand - Group Development and Multiplication

23 February 2012

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2012 Advance - Expand - Group Development and Multiplication

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2012 Advance - Expand - Questions and Answers

24 February 2012

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2012 Advance - Expand - Questions and Answers

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Welcome our new staff

Ivana Polláková Ivana has been called to full-time ministry and joined the Josiah Venture Slovakia team in 2019. She is going to coordinate KPM and continue serving in the youth ministry of her local church in Bardejov.

Support a national missionary

Jan & Tereza Rokosz Jan is working for the Comenius 2020 project under Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Czech (KAM) as its coordinator. Together with the whole team working on the project, Jan wants to see students’ hearts changed through the gospel.