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Pavla Kajfoszova
Pavla (Paja) was born in the Czech Republic and comes from a non-Christian family. Before joining Josiah venture (JV), Paja earned her bachelor’s degree in Economy and worked as a Sales officer and Coordinator for Silesian …Read more

Ivana Polláková
God was making Himself known to Ivana since her childhood through a Bible for children, Sunday school, and religion classes. However, it took her several years to start following Christ. While in high school, she started …Read more

Flaviu & Lidia Coman
Flaviu was born in a large family of 11 children in the Petroșani area of Romania. He received a passion for Christ as a child, being inspired and led by his parents who he respects as worthy examples to follow. In 1999, …Read more

Darius & Bia Bocsa
Darius (Romanian) met his wife Bia (Brazilian) at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Both had a desire and passion to serve the Lord and to make the name of Jesus known. Together, they decided to move to Romania and work …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

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

Michal Soukup
During his 18 year long journey as the youth leader in his home church (CB or Church of the Brethren), Michal realized that the most necessary group of people in the Czech Republic to reach is the youth. Those within the …Read more

Tomáš Zářický
Tomáš has always had a special affection for Josiah Venture (JV), being introduced to Christ through some of JV's missionary kids as a teenager in 2010. In the summer of 2012, he attended a Christian camp in Maine, which …Read more

Peter & Katka Michalčik
Peter started full-time ministry with Training Center Kompas (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Slovakia) in 2004. Prior to this, Peter was a physics teacher and spent his free time with his youth group. Passionate …Read more

Jiří & Jana Jedlička
Jirka Jedlička, widely known as JJ, was born in South Bohemia. For 20 years, he lived in Prague but he and his family currently make their home in a city in the Czech Highlands known as Trebic (Trzebeach). After working …Read more
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These students are pursuing a UK degree at our ForMission College campus.

ForMission Students

Bela

Matej

Bella

Szabolc

Blažek

Daniel

Lach

Bogdan

Melotík

Pavel

Mrázková

Petra

Navrátil

Štěpán

Řiháček

Josef

Sekulová

Nikola

Szabados

Bálint

Tatarski

Petar

Tichá

Kateřina

Learn more about our ForMission College campus in the Czech Republic

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Welcome our new staff

Alex & Alexandra Capverde Alex and Alexandra do local ministry in and near Cobadin, Romania, and Alex also serves on the Josiah Venture EDGE sports team as a coach and is a network assistant.