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Inguna Raudina
Ingūna grew up in Riga, the capital city of Latvia. She became a Christian when she was seventeen through a local church youth ministry and served on the youth team for many years. It is here that she first learned about …Read more

Anđelko & Kristina Trninić
Anđelko accepted Christ after witnessing God set his brother free from heroin addiction. Anđelko lives with his wife Kristina in Novi Sad, the second biggest city in Serbia. In 2015 he started serving as a youth leader in …Read more

Eva Sucháčová
Eva joined Josiah Venture (JV) in 2011 after participating as a student at the School of Youth Leaders in Slovakia. This school changed her view of ministry. It was there that Eva learned about discipleship for the first …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

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

Lukasz & Jola Kropisz
In 2004 while in a JV nine-month internship program, Lukasz discovered his passion for middle school students and his calling to ministry. That same year he developed El Dorado, a camp and conference ministry in southern …Read more

Iryna Yakubiv
Iryna was raised in a home where no one talked about God. The first time Iryna ever heard about God was in a Christian Ethics class at school. That began to change once Iryna first got connected to Josiah Venture in 2014—when …Read more

Hana Martináková
In 2000, Hanka along with three other people, participated in founding an association called "On the Road," which focused on Christian youth work. She worked for 8 years as a social worker and did lectures at schools. Back …Read more

Darina Malá
Darina is passionate about music, helping other Christians grow deeper in a relationship with God, as well as reaching out to young people. She has been involved in youth ministry since high school, but it became more intentional …Read more

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
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These interns will be serving with Josiah Venture this year.

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Kirk

Linden

Kubiak

Katarzyna

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Christian & Estera Cazacu Christian and Estera are passionate about serving young people through discipleship. Christian is involved in JV Edge Sports in Romania and Estera is involved in JV Fusion in Medgidia, Romania.

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Stojce & Sara Nikolov Stojce and Sara were first introduced to Josiah Venture when their church in Backa Topola, Serbia decided to host a camp for its youth.