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Barbora Benešová
Barbora decided to follow and give her life to Jesus at a teenage church camp at the age of 13 in Slovakia. Since then, she served with younger and older teens and at KECY (English) camps. In 2018, she moved to Levice where …Read more

Ivana Polláková
God was making Himself known to Ivana since her childhood through a Bible for children, Sunday school, and religion classes. However, it took her several years to start following Christ. While in high school, she started …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

Emīls Rolavs
Emīls grew up in a Catholic church in a small town of 3500 people in Latvia. His life changed when he started attending a local Josiah Venture Fusion group and eventually ended up joining the team to help out with teaching …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

Noemi & Rycho Bednarz
Noemi and Rycho grew up in Christian families and got married in 2005. They live in Ropice, Czech Republic, and care for 4 children—twins Simeon and Sára (12 years), Miriam (9), and Rebeka (7 years). They first encountered …Read more

Adam & Ola Löffler
Growing up, Adam was the only evangelical believer in his school. He accepted Jesus as a teenager and God began to grow in him a huge desire to tell others about himself. After helping to organize several English camps with …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

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

Ranno & Kristiina Seppel
Ranno joined JV in the autumn of 2017. He is working with Josiah Venture’s (JV) partner organization in Estonia (Koma). Ranno has been leading soccer camps for six years, and he desires to see God move among the youth through …Read more
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Josh & Alica Howard

Josh is from Fort Wayne, Indiana and has been working in various roles for Josiah Venture (JV) since May of 2011. These roles have included: Fusion (both on a national and local level), the Intern Director for Slovakia, a counselor with the JV Kids’ ministry, leading small groups, and discipling young men. Alica, was born in Presov, Slovakia and came to Christ at a JV English camp in Slovakia. For the last couple of years, she has been living in Atlanta, Georgia studying Psychology. Josh and Alica met during a JV recruitment tour in 2017 and were married in August of 2019. Josh serves as the Camps Director for Slovakia and Alica works as their Short Term Teams Coordinator.

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Other Slovakia team members ↓

Hrubo

Hrubo

Peter & Eva

Shepperson

Shepperson

Zac & Kim

Michalčik

Michalčik

Peter & Katka

Skonc

Skonc

Daniel & Maruška

Rumbold

Rumbold

Ed & Wendi

Šimočko

Šimočko

Jany & Lenka

Sucháčová

Sucháčová

Eva

Chase

Chase

Mark & Amy

Malá

Malá

Darina

Harčar

Harčar

Daniel & Denisa

Pončák

Pončák

Michal & Katarína

Šimočko

Šimočko

Juraj & Miriam

Kostlán

Kostlán

David & Daniela

Polláková

Polláková

Ivana

Sabová

Sabová

Simona

Mahrik

Mahrik

Timotej & Lucia

Myjavec

Myjavec

Miloš

Gibbs

Gibbs

Aaron & Megan

Linkesch

Linkesch

Peter

King

King

Alex

Šulka

Šulka

Petra & Adrian

Benešová

Benešová

Barbora

Bozikova

Bozikova

Zuzana

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Ion Matei Ion aspires to empower young people throughout Moldova to make disciples and to connect with other churches through Josiah Venture Edge football.

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Kateřina Tichá Káťa was first captured by the gospel at a JV English camp in 2009. After years of being involved with camp ministry in Prague, she now lives in Ostrava and serves on JV's International Communications Team.