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Bartek & Kasia Tesluk
Bartek’s life was transformed at age 14 when he said yes to Jesus. His first ministry opportunity arose from his natural need of being part of community. He began a Bible club in his dorm, while he was away from home in …Read more

Ruxandra Neacsu
Ruxi grew up in a Christian family and served in the local church in Galați ever since she was nine. After graduating from high-school, she moved back and forth a couple of times for school and work, but was always drawn …Read more

Pavel & Jana Schwarz
Pavel and Jana were married in 2009 and spent their first years of marriage together in Prague. In 2012, after 7 years with General Electric, Pavel accepted the offer to serve with Josiah Venture in organizational development …Read more

Olena Volovyk
Olena was born in Ternopil and has lived there her whole life. When she was 8 years old, she started attending a church kids club and Sunday school through the invitation of a Christian elementary school teacher. There she …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

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

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

Zuza Szymik
Zuza grew up in a religious family, but it wasn't until she was 18 years old and attended an English camp that she encountered a living church for the first time. Since then, she has been involved in different outreach projects …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

Michal & Katarína Pončák
Michal and Katarína met for the first time while serving at English camp in their local church. Their life story is quite similar. They are both “fruits” of several projects led by TCKompas (Josiah Venture’s partner organization …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

Čížková

Čížková

Bára

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

Ryńska

Ryńska

Alicja

Sabová

Sabová

Simona

Short

Short

Tiffany

Šimočko

Šimočko

Juraj & Miriam

Soukup

Soukup

Michal

Stoitseva

Stoitseva

Elisaveta

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

Ruxandra Neacsu Ruxi had been praying for a teen-focused ministry ever since she was a teenager, and now disciples young girls through Fusion in Romania.

Support a national missionary

Bogdan & Martina Lach Bogdan and Martina lead a team of people who run youth ministries in Frydlant nad Ostravici, Czech (Fusion, BMA family, youth group leaders Hangout), who also lead small groups. Bogdan also works for KAM, while Martina works at the hotel that KAM runs.