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Lucie & Filip Mészáros
Lucie comes from a family of nonbelievers from a small town in the Czech Republic. She started to seek God through a missionary ministry in her town, and, as a result, she believes that the key to sharing the gospel is a …Read more

Anđelko & Kristina Trninić
Anđelko accepted Christ after witnessing God set his brother free from heroin addiction. Anđelko lives with his wife Kristina in Novi Sad, the second biggest city in Serbia. In 2015 he started serving as a youth leader in …Read more

Jana & Eduard Řezníček
Jana has been working with children and young people in the Czech Republic for more than 25 years. She worked after the Velvet Revolution as a Scout leader, a teacher at elementary schools, and a children's pastor. Inspired …Read more

Stojce Nikolov
Shortly after finding faith, Stojce prayed for deeper understanding and connection with his newfound Savior. Within months, he moved from Macedonia to Serbia to study theology. Discovering a passion for youth work, he …Read more

Svyatoslav & Khrystya Garvas
Svyatoslav (Syava) has lived in Lviv, Ukraine all his life. He came to know Christ through a youth program at New Life church. Almost immediately after, he began to serve in the youth ministry, where he met his future wife. …Read more

Iva Boszczykova
Iva grew up in a small industrial town near the Polish border in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. She was led to faith by her mother and decided to give her life to God as a little girl at a Christian children's camp. …Read more

David & Ieva Kingdon
David first came to Latvia in 2003 to work with international students and was shocked by their history and how many of his Latvian friends came from broken families. He became burdened for Latvian teenagers to encounter …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

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

Szabolcs & Maggie Bella
Szabi came to Christ at 16 years of age, through a youth group led by another JV missionary. Since then, he has felt called to lead other young people to Christ, so that they can experience the light God brings into the …Read more
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Claire Stamper Claire Stamper is raising support and hoping to be serving on the field with Josiah Venture’s team in Hungary by summer 2025.

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Honza & Kateřina Kabut Honza and Kača Kabut serve on Josiah Venture teams in Czech, Honza for the Communicatons team on the International team, and Kača for KAM (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Czech).