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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

Jan & Tereza Rokosz
Jan was born into a Christian family. When he was eighteen years old, he started to help leading the local youth ministry in Karviná, Czech Republic. Since then, he felt that his ministry needed to focus on young people. …Read more

Jan & Naďa Kuklinek
After working for Hewlett Packard for many years, God called Honza to full-time ministry, and he began to serve in the Czech internship program, preparing new leaders for Christian ministry. Honza works for KAM (Josiah Venture’s …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

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

Baiba & Aleksandrs Kenigsvalde
When Baiba was 15, she became a believer through the local youth group. Two years later, she joined a local church youth leader team and was introduced to Josiah Venture through a missionary serving with JV. She discipled …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

Honza & Kateřina Kabut
Honza and Kača were first introduced to Josiah Venture through a JV summer camp in 2007. That was the first time they served with KAM, JV’s partner organization in the Czech Republic. Then in 2011, they helped launch Fusion, …Read more

Elisaveta Stoitseva
Lizzy first heard of Josiah Venture (JV) and its ministry in Central and Eastern Europe at a training conference in 2016, and she was captured by their vision for reaching young people. That’s where she first felt called …Read more

Raimonds & Marta Logins
Raimonds grew up in a small community in eastern Latvia, where he became a follower of Jesus through a youth ministry in a local church. Still a teenager himself, he started leading youth in that same ministry until he eventually …Read more
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See our new staff with a heart for the youth of this region.

New Staff Raising Support

Benešová

Benešová

Barbora

Bimaj

Bimaj

Ermal & Denisa

Břešťák

Břešťák

Klára & David

Budd

Budd

Julia

Burdová

Burdová

Petra

Butowicz

Butowicz

Weronika

Dušek

Dušek

Mára & Kseniya

Fedyk

Fedyk

Iryna

Holden

Holden

Justin & Lucie

Hunnicutt

Hunnicutt

Kingsley

Jankowska

Jankowska

Agata & Jan

Keice

Keice

Lelde

King

King

Alex

Kocyan

Kocyan

Kateřina & Daniel

Kreko

Kreko

Ema

Krok

Krok

Salomon & Iza

Lausvee

Lausvee

Fred & Heglis

Linkesch

Linkesch

Peter

Linkesch

Marek

Mahrik

Mahrik

Timotej & Lucia

Matei

Matei

Ion

Michalski

Michalski

Sebastian

Mitchell

Mitchell

Marcus & Gwen

Myjavec

Myjavec

Miloš

Neacsu

Neacsu

Ruxandra

Newhouse

Newhouse

Moriah

Ohnesorg

Ohnesorg

Ross & Julie

Peste

Peste

Tino & Cristiana

Petkov

Petkov

Solomon

Polláková

Polláková

Ivana

Rokosz

Rokosz

Jan & Tereza

Rolavs

Rolavs

Emīls

Ryńska

Ryńska

Alicja

Sabová

Sabová

Simona

Short

Short

Tiffany

Šimočko

Šimočko

Juraj & Miriam

Soukup

Soukup

Michal

Stoitseva

Stoitseva

Elisaveta

Šulka

Šulka

Petra & Adrian

Szymik

Szymik

Zuza

Toušek

Toušek

Tomáš & Hanka

Trninić

Trninić

Anđelko & Kristina

Tsonchev

Tsonchev

Yoan & Nadia

Udrea

Udrea

Alin

Williams

Williams

Paul & Molli

Zheleva

Zheleva

Lyubov

Zveja

Zveja

Paula

God continues to bless JV with exceptional new staff that have a heart for the youth of Central and Eastern Europe. All of our new staff are raising support to serve on the field full-time.

Welcome our new staff

Justin & Lucie Holden Justin and Lucie live in Liberec, Czech Republic, where they lead the young adult's ministry and bible study groups in their local church. In joining JV, Justin is expanding his ministry to include more leadership training and support for youth leaders in his local area as well.

Support a national missionary

Ondřej & Anna Szturc Ondra and Anna work with KAM in Czech to see the new generation of leaders across the country create healthy communities where unchurched people are welcomed, accepted, and led to Christ.