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Martina Pixová
When Martina became a Christian back in 2000, Josiah Venture English camp was one of her first ministry opportunities. She immediately fell in love with the English camp culture. She loved serving Czech students side by …Read more

Timotej & Lucia Mahrik
Timo and Lucia grew up in the same church—CB Church in Žilina, Slovakia. Both of their fathers were strongly involved in ministry there; Timo’s dad was a leading pastor and Lucia’s dad was one of the elders. Timo and Lucia …Read more

Dawid & Aleksandra Werner
In 2002, Dawid started serving with English camps through his local church. Eventually, Dawid was asked to join Fala, Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Poland, where he helped coordinate the Ministry Team Training …Read more

Paula Zveja
Paula was born in Ventspils and has lived there her whole life. Since she was born, her mom was part of the church and Paula attended Sunday School and later, youth nights. When she was 12, through a difficult family situation, …Read more

Zuzana & David Kittel
Zuzka was born to a non-believing family in the Czech republic. It took a few years and much work from her young leaders, but after that she gave her life to Jesus and was baptized—the best decision she ever made. From that …Read more

Jan & Tereza Rokosz
Jan was born into a Czech Christian family. When he was eighteen years old, he started to help lead the local youth ministry in Karviná, Czech Republic. Later, he became the main leader. Since then, he felt that his ministry …Read more

Ermal & Nertila Gjermeni
Ermal has served as a pastor in the church of the Nazarene in Gorre, Lushnje, Albania since 2011. His core ministries are youth and sports. From an early age, God used football to bring Ermal into his plan. Now, he uses …Read more

Miloš Myjavec
Miloš began to take God seriously when he was 13 years old. He decided to get baptized as a symbol of surrendering the control over his life to Jesus. As a result, he did not hesitate to invest his energy into the ministry …Read more

Daniel & Maruška Skonc
Maruška and Daniel have been involved in youth ministry and both have over 10 years experience leading youth groups, organizing camps, and working as volunteers in the church. Maruška studied literature and art and Daniel …Read more

Viktor & Miriam Valentini
Viktor was born in a Christian home where serving in the church was as normal as any other part of life. Early on, he saw his father serving not just as a pastor but also as someone who had a passion for serving young people. …Read more
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Welcome our new staff

Jana & Eduard Řezníček Jana works with Josiah Venture to serve Christian teachers and lecturers in Czech schools. Her desire is to inspire teenagers to think more deeply about the meaning of life, relationships, friendships, family values, love, and Jesus.

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Timotej & Lucia Mahrik Timo is joining Josiah Venture Slovakia as Executive Director of Operations and Lucia is a high school teacher. They currently live and serve in Žilina.