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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

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

Emīls Rolavs
Emīls grew up in a Catholic church in a small town of 3500 people in Latvia. His life changed when he started attending a local Josiah Venture Fusion group and eventually ended up joining the team to help out with teaching …Read more

Zala Cempre
Growing up in Slovenia, Zala believed that God existed. However, it wasn’t until her second English Camp with Josiah Venture, in 2009, that she realized that her understanding of God was wrong. After camp, she started going …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

Bogdan & Diana Anton
Bogdan and Diana are living and serving in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, a place of beauty and great need for the Gospel. After years of discipling young women in Arad, western Romania, Diana moved across the country …Read more

Milan & Zdenka Michalko
In 1970, Milan Michalko was born into a Christian family in Ostrava, Czech Republic – the city where he still lives today. His parents were very active believers, which made for quite an interesting childhood, considering …Read more

Zuzana Bozikova
Zuzka decided to follow Jesus when she was 10 at a camp organized by Child Evangelism Fellowship. Since then, her life started to change, and she knew that it would be one big adventure. During her management studies, she …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

Kateřina & Daniel Kocyan
Kateřina and Daniel both committed their lives to Jesus as teenagers. At the same time, they felt the calling to serve full time in Christian ministry. Their desire is to see the Czech Republic and Europe transformed by …Read more
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Sarah Ward Sarah Ward currently resides in Arlington, Virginia and serves at Passion City Church D.C. She is raising support to join JV’s International team in the Czech Republic where she’ll work in finance and operations, in addition to serving with a local Czech church.

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Flaviu & Lidia Coman Flaviu is pastoring two churches in the southeastern part of Romania, leading Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Romania, leads the youth department for the southeastern Pentecostal Union, and his wife Lidia is leading the discipleship ministry for women in their local church.