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Jany & Lenka Šimočko
Jany accepted Christ in 2001 at the age of 16. Two years later, Jany joined his youth group’s leadership team to help organize their first English camp in Prešov, Slovakia. In 2006, Jany took the leadership role for his …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

Sebastian & Gloria Forjan
Sebastian, raised Catholic, attended church as almost every Slovene but didn’t believe in God. In 1995, he put his faith in Christ. While he served in the army for nine months, God put a burden on his heart for the youth …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 Czech local churches. Ondra is lead pastor in his …Read more

Jan & Renee Pospíšil
Jéňa has been serving full-time with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since September 2011. After finishing his degree in Education, Jéňa continued studying Music. During the second year of his studies, he was offered …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

Lukasz & Jola Kropisz
In 2004 while in a JV nine-month internship program, Lukasz discovered his passion for middle school students and his calling to ministry. That same year he developed El Dorado, a camp and conference ministry in southern …Read more

Daniel & Denisa Harčar
Daniel and Denisa met at a youth group camp with the Lutheran Church in Prešov, Slovakia. Daniel had accepted Christ as his Savior when he was 16. After a year, he started to serve in his local church in Prešov as a member …Read more

Bartek Wilkosz
Bartek’s first involvement with Josiah Venture (JV) was in 2014 when he took part in a camp called Growth Academy, organized by El Dorado—one of JV Poland’s (Fala) national projects. The goal of all of El Dorado’s activities …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 a huge desire in him to tell others about himself. After co-organizing some youth events, he realized …Read more
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Alex & Alexandra Capverde Alex and Alexandra do local ministry in and near Cobadin, Romania, and Alex also serves on the Josiah Venture EDGE sports team as a coach and is a network assistant.

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Yoan & Nadia Tsonchev Yoan and Nadia are full-time members of Istinski Horizonti’s team (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Bulgaria) and have assumed the national coordination of Fusion for Bulgaria.