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Apr 22, 2024 | 4 min read | Kristin Yorman Pray for EDGE Games “They come for the football and stay for the community.” This quote was from Christian Cazacu—one of the coaches at Romania’s EDGE Sports international soccer (football) tournament in Cluj-Napoca, Romania last Spring. Christian Cazacu went on to say that he thinks that EDGE Sports is effective, because... Read more
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Apr 16, 2024 | 4 min read | Dave Patty
Online Evangelists
Dear Friends,
Where do young people gather today?
Jesus wasn’t content to just share the good news in synagogues and homes—he boldly proclaimed the gospel in the streets... Read more
Mar 21, 2024 | 6 min read | Laura Hash
Making Marriage a Priority
Life is hard on marriages, and strong marriages don’t just happen; they take hard work! This strain is pronounced even more when you’re serving as a missionary. This “calling”... Read more
Mar 9, 2024 | 4 min read | Dave Patty
Faith That Persists
Dear Friends,
Why did it take seven marches around the walls of Jericho before they fell?
When Juli was just five years old in the country of Albania, he used to stand in... Read more
Feb 19, 2024 | 5 min read | Juliana Law
Two Years of His Faithfulness
I am embarrassed to say that for the majority of my life, I have instinctively avoided hard things. I would challenge myself, but only in ways that I felt confident that I... Read more
Feb 15, 2024 | 4 min read | Dave Patty
Producing or Reproducing
Sometimes, a small change makes a big difference.
I spent all of last week with a fantastic group of 43 new Josiah Venture missionaries. I wish you could meet them all... Read more
Jan 22, 2024 | 4 min read | Connie Patty
Pray like monks
In a small village on the island of Hvar in Croatia, one of the countries where JV staff serve, there is a cave below Sveti Nikola. This mountain is the highest point on the... Read more
Jan 10, 2024 | 3 min read | Dave Patty
On the Front Lines
The war in Ukraine is far from over.
On the JV Ukraine team, three of our families are IDPs (internally displaced people) from the war zone. They had to restart their lives... Read more
Dec 15, 2023 | 6 min read | Kristin Yorman
Christmas in Czech
Getting to spend the holidays in Europe? Isn’t that the American dream? Well, for a missionary family that has lived in the Czech Republic for the last 12 years, it’s... Read more
Dec 11, 2023 | 4 min read | Dave Patty
Song the Gospel
Music speaks to the mind, but it reaches the soul.
There are many barriers to the gospel in Central and Eastern Europe. Most people are secular, with little or no knowledge... Read more
