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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

Dušan & Dana Drabina
Dusan and Dana have been married since 2008. They started dating while Dana was finishing her master’s degree at University of Malta. Dusan earned his Master of Economics in Prague and diploma in Business Administration …Read more

Lucie Nevřelová
Raised in a non-Christian family, Tomáš played hockey for 17 years. Shortly after coming to faith in 2003, Jesus changed his paths. He gave Tomáš a great desire to serve through soccer camps as a means of reaching young …Read more

Juraj & Miriam Šimočko
As a pastor’s kid, Miriam was 14 years old when she accepted Christ. Since then, she has been helping with ministry in her local church. She attended the School of Leaders organized by TCKompas—Josiah Venture’s (JV) national …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

Christian & Estera Cazacu
Christian was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania but grew up in Turin, Italy—after moving with his family in the late 1990s. In 2014, he received the call to move to Romania without knowing exactly where God would direct him. In …Read more

Liudmyla Rubtsova
In 2007, at the age of 12, Liuda repented at a Christian camp in her home town of Poltava in Central Ukraine. She came to Lviv to study at university and has stayed ever since. She has been serving at a church in Lviv for …Read more

Yoan & Nadia Tsonchev
Yoan and Nadia met for the first time at Sunday School. Yoan is a Pastor's child and is a 3rd generation Christian. At 18, he received his calling from God to minister to young people and dedicate himself to youth ministry. …Read more

Tomáš & Lucie Nevřela
Lucie joined Josiah Venture in March of 2006 and worked for the Exit316 project. In 2008, she joined a team of Czech women serving young female leaders through discipleship and coaching. She also worked in the KAM office …Read more

Daniel Blažek
Dan comes from Písek in South Bohemia, Czech Republic where he grew up in his unbelieving family. Since his childhood, however, he attended various basketball camps where he was able to hear about God for the first time. …Read more
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2022 Thanksgiving

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Welcome our new staff

Paul & Val Bowman Paul Bowman is the Director of Josiah Venture UK. He is excited to encourage and equip leaders for ministry in the UK and across Europe, and to mobilize prayer, people, and resources for ministry in Central and Eastern Europe.

Support a national missionary

Baiba & Aleksandrs Kenigsvalde Baiba and Aleksandrs have a desire to empower youth to be disciples who make disciples in their country of Latvia.