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Jakub & Monika Vejmělka
In 2013, Jakub and Monika felt the need to build a youth group to go alongside the Fusion ministry within their local Czech church—Evangelical Fellowship in the city of Brno. Despite having little experience with leading …Read more

Michal & Sylwia Skiba
In 1997, Michal, a young and inexperienced youth leader, was mentored by a Josiah Venture missionary who modeled Christ’s life and ministry. Soon he and his youth group began leading evangelistic English camps to reach their …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

Martina Pixová
When Martina became a Christian back in 2000, Josiah Venture English camp was one of her first ministry opportunities. She immediately fell in love with the English camp culture. She loved serving Czech students side by …Read more

Alin Udrea
Growing up in a large family, Alin has always loved to play and work with children. By his first year of high school, he was already volunteering for underprivileged children from a center in Bucharest. He came to know God …Read more

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

Mára & Kseniya Dušek
Kseniya and Mára both met Jesus at Josiah Venture (JV) camps in 2012. Kseniya in Ukraine; Mára in the Czech Republic. They, then, met each other in 2017 at the JV Media Academy and got married in 2018. Kseniya and Mára …Read more

Andrii & Yulia Polonnikov
Andriy was born in Lviv, Ukraine, where he has spent his whole life. He began attending church through a friend. Through a summer camp ministry, Andriy started to understand what it meant to live with the Lord when he was …Read more

Mykola & Anna Semenov
Mykola came to Christ at age 14 in Eastern Ukraine. He started to serve in children's ministry and then developed into doing youth ministry. Later, he became a deacon in his church and also led family ministry with his wife …Read more

Timotej & Lucia Mahrik
Timo and Lucia grew up in the same church—CB Church in Žilina, Slovakia. Both of their fathers were strongly involved in ministry there; Timo’s dad was a leading pastor and Lucia’s dad was one of the elders. Timo and Lucia …Read more
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