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Dušan & Dana Drabina
Dusan and Dana have been married since 2008. They started dating while Dana was finishing her master’s degree at University of Malta. Dusan earned his Master of Economics in Prague and diploma in Business Administration …Read more

Weronika Kusmider
Weronika was brought up in a Christian family but didn’t believe in God herself. She was broken, without hope and purpose in life, and struggled with depression. When she gave her life to Jesus at the age of 17, she knew …Read more

Christian & Estera Cazacu
Christian was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania but grew up in Turin, Italy—after moving with his family in the late 1990s. In 2014, he received the call to move to Romania without knowing exactly where God would direct him. In …Read more

Lelde Keice
Lelde was 14 when she became a Christian at a youth camp. She was first introduced to Josiah Venture (JV) in her second year of high school when her local pastor encouraged her to attend a leadership training program run …Read more

Serhii Bielov
Serhii grew up in a religious family in a city near Kyiv, Ukraine; however, he truly accepted Christ when he was 19. This path was not easy—he walked away from small addictions to freedom through salvation. In 2020, he …Read more

Mladen & Judita Kočiš
Originally from Croatia, Judita and Mladen arrived in Slovenia in October 2008 with plans to further their education. Mladen had enrolled in a sports education program, while Judita began her studies at a music academy. …Read more

Zuzana & Jakub Smyček
Zuzka comes from a small village called Ropice, located in Silesia, Czech Republic. She grew up in an evangelical church and, from the age of 15, was alternately on the youth team and in Sunday school. She studied theology …Read more

Jānis Pāvils & Emija Viktorija Miļevski
Jānis grew up in Latvia’s capital city, Riga. At the age of 11, he first encountered Christianity at Riga Matthew's Baptist Church. Serving in the church’s projection ministry, he began to understand the Christian faith …Read more

Elisaveta Stoitseva
Lizzy first heard of Josiah Venture (JV) and its ministry in Central and Eastern Europe at a training conference in 2016, and she was captivated by their vision for reaching young people. That’s where she first felt called …Read more

Tsvetan & Maia Stoitsev
Tsvetan and Maia have been serving in the youth movement with their church’s union for the last 30 years. They have been married for 25 years and have two kids, Georgi and Evgenia. During the previous several years, while …Read more
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