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Alexandru Herghelegiu
Alexandru grew up in a Christian family of ministry workers with biblical values. He always wanted to serve God in the church, but didn't know how. Not until the age of 17, when Christ revealed Himself personally, and from …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

Natalia Starkowska
Natalia heard the gospel for the first time in 2006 and was captured by it. She immediately started volunteering and growing in her local church in Nowy Tomysl, Poland. Since then, she has been watching God’s movement in …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

Fred & Heglis Lausvee
Fred and Heglis both came from Christian families and accepted God into their lives early on. Consequently, they began their ministry quite early. For many years, they collaborated as volunteers with Josiah Venture (JV) …Read more

Indrek-Eliel & Regina Tambek
Indrek-Eliel Tambek began volunteering with the leadership training program held by Koma, Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Estonia, back in 2011. Around the same time, he also began serving in the ministry of football …Read more

Viktor & Miriam Valentini
Viktor was born in a Christian home where serving in the church was as normal as any other part of life. Early on, he saw his father serving not just as a pastor but also as someone who had a passion for serving young people. …Read more

Pavel Pham
Pavel was born in Ostrava and grew up in a nearby city called Havířov. He did not grow up in a Christian family and was a pretty introverted and silent kid. He just had four friends, like brothers, who he had known since …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

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
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Samuel & Šárka Hust After finishing an internship at KAM (JV’s partner organization in Czech) in 2002, Samuel made a step of faith and obeyed the Lord’s calling to full time ministry.