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Daniel & Kristýna Pípal
Daniel and Kristýna met for the first time at Hotel Malenovice in the Czech Republic during a youth conference. A few years later, they got married in 2010. They joined cell churches (communities) and started doing Christian …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

Jana & Eduard Řezníček
Jana has been working with children and young people in the Czech Republic for more than 25 years. She worked after the Velvet Revolution as a Scout leader, a teacher at elementary schools, and a children's pastor. Inspired …Read more

Bogdan & Martina Lach
The first time Bogdan and Martina heard about Josiah Venture, they were praying and looking for a place where they could work and serve God with their gifts. About that time, KAM (JV’s partner organization in the Czech Republic) …Read more

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

David & Ieva Kingdon
David first came to Latvia in 2003 to work with international students and was shocked by their history and how many of his Latvian friends came from broken families. He became burdened for Latvian teenagers to encounter …Read more

Dušan & Dana Drabina
Dusan and Dana have been married since 2008. Dusan has been serving with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since January 2004. Dusan got his Master’s Degree in Economics in Prague and Diploma in Business Administration …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

Peter & Eva Hrubo
Peter and Eva met while attending college in Žilina, Slovakia during the communist era. Together they were involved in pioneering a youth ministry in their local church. Married shortly after the Velvet Revolution, Eva began …Read more

Solomon Petkov
Sunny, who has been involved with youth ministry for several years, was raised in a Christian family in Bulgaria, and he has had the privilege of being part of a strong local church. From a young age, he had a passion for …Read more
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Welcome our new staff

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.

Support a national missionary

Bogdan & Diana Anton The Antons have a heart for evangelism and discipleship of young people in the south-eastern part of Romania. They live in Bucharest where Bogdan does Edge sports ministry and Diana invests in young women.