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Petr & Lauren Božoň
Petr and Lauren first met in 2000, when Lauren was teaching English at a language school in Frydlant, Czech Republic. Growing up in a non-Christian home in communist Czechoslovakia, Petr trusted Christ in 2002, while attending …Read more

Agata & Jan Jankowska
Agata was born into a believing family, yet she did not always feel like she belonged to the local church. She did not understand serving the church, because she struggled to imagine how she could serve. As a teenager in …Read more

Andrej & Nina Lovše
Andrej and Nina met as teens in their hometown of Maribor, Slovenia. Nina was the first to accept Christ as a result of missionaries sharing Christ outside her high school. A few years later, Andrej became a believer and …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

Bojan Ostojić
Bojan was born into an atheist family in Serbia, which was at that time part of Yugoslavia. He came to know Christ in his senior year of college. After finishing his masters in clinical psychology, he returned to his home …Read more

Dušan & Lucie Geldner
Dušan and Lucie first met in a church in Prague in 2007, when both were working in business. Dušan was also involved in sports ministry with Athletes in Action. He served as a volleyball coach at their summer sports camps …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

Tomáš & Lucie Nevřela
Lucie and Tomáš met in 2005 in their church in Písek at a summer evangelistic soccer camp where they were serving. They shared a love for sports and for reaching the lost. After becoming friends and dating for two years, …Read more

Petra & Adrian Šulka
Petra was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. Ever since high school, when she was not even a Christian yet, she believed it was important to devote enough time to the next generation. She decided to follow Jesus during her first …Read more

David & Ieva Kingdon
David first came to Latvia in 2003 to work with international students and was shocked by their history and how many of his Latvian friends came from broken families. He became burdened for Latvian teenagers to encounter …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

Bozikova

Bozikova

Zuzana

Břešťák

Břešťák

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Budd

Budd

Julia

Butowicz

Butowicz

Weronika

Dušek

Dušek

Mára & Kseniya

Fedyk

Fedyk

Iryna

Haas

Haas

Garrett & Brittney

Holden

Holden

Justin & Lucie

Hunnicutt

Hunnicutt

Kingsley

Jankowska

Jankowska

Agata & Jan

Keice

Keice

Lelde

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

Molin

Molin

Henryk

Myjavec

Myjavec

Miloš

Neacsu

Neacsu

Ruxandra

Newhouse

Newhouse

Moriah

Ohnesorg

Ohnesorg

Ross & Julie

Peste

Peste

Tino & Cristiana

Petkov

Petkov

Solomon

Polláková

Polláková

Ivana

Řezníček

Řezníček

Jana & Eduard

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

Ward

Ward

Sarah

Wilkosz

Wilkosz

Bartek

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

Tiffany Short Tiffany is so excited to see the ways God continues to move and change lives when young leaders are further equipped to fulfill Christ’s commission through the local church.