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Michaela & Roman Toušek
Michaela (Misa) has been serving with Josiah Venture (JV) Czech since 2015, after moving with her family to Havirov, where her husband Roman became a local church pastor. She left her job as a teacher and joined the JV team …Read more

Salomon & Iza Krok
Salomon was born into a family of believers in the Silesian region of Poland, in a town called Cieszyn. As time went on, the faith his parents held to was not enough for him personally. Salomon had to go on his own path …Read more

Kadri-Kristel & Sven Saagim
Kadri-Kristel was a Josiah Venture summer intern in 2021. She had been leading the youth ministry in her home church for two years by that time and the desire to serve more widely started to grow during the internship. Sven …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

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

Simona Sabová
Simona grew up in a loving but broken home where Christ wasn't known. She learned about God through her piano teacher, who at that time served as a youth leader in the local church. After three years of constant reminders …Read more

Yoan & Nadia Tsonchev
Yoan and Nadia met for the first time at Sunday School. Yoan is a Pastor's child and is a 3rd generation Christian. At 18, he received his calling from God to minister to young people and dedicate himself to youth ministry. …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

Peter & Barbora Linkesch
Peter gave his life to Christ at a youth camp when he was 10 years old. He served in various ministries of his church since he was 15 years old. He started with the middle-school ministry (meetings for 10-15 year-olds) at …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
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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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Peter & Katka Michalčik With over 13 years of experience as a youth leader in a local church, Peter and his wife, Katka, are working with high school and college age youth in Presov, Slovakia.