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Liudmyla Rubtsova
In 2007, at the age of 12, Liuda repented at a Christian camp in her home town of Poltava in Central Ukraine. She came to Lviv to study at university and has stayed ever since. She has been serving at a church in Lviv for …Read more

Sara & Dawid Kominek
Sara's journey with youth ministry started at the age of 16 when she started leading her church’s youth group with two other friends her age. Supported personally by Josiah Venture staff, she began her first steps in ministry. …Read more

Petar & Femke Tatarski
Petar (from Bulgaria) felt God leading him to full-time ministry during and after a summer internship in 2013. Femke's (from the Netherlands) first trip to Bulgaria with the team from her church was in 2011. Her love for …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

Petra & Adrian Šulka
Adrian and Petra both come from non-believing families and gave their lives to God, independently of each other, in their teenage years (15 and 20 years). Petra started working with Josiah Venture Slovakia in 2017 through …Read more

Karel & Petra Hennhofer
Karel has been serving with Josiah Venture (JV) Czech (KAM) since 2008. He grew up attending a traditional church but never knew the Bible or God personally. He became a Christian while studying at the Technical University …Read more

Ion & Cristina Matei
Ion lives and serves in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. Moldova is a picturesque and unique country in great need of the gospel. He comes from an orthodox background and did not have a personal relationship with God until …Read more

Adéla Jurčová
Adéla was born into a Christian family in Trutnov, Czech Republic. She gave her life to Christ at the age of 11, and she has been serving at church and working with youth since she was a teenager. Adéla led English camps …Read more

Evan & Olena Slobodnychenko
Evan was born into an unbelieving family in Chornomorsk, Southern Ukraine. At the age of 15, he started to attend a ministry for teenagers in a local church. After a few years of attending that ministry, he decided to follow …Read more

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
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Simon Kolesar Šimon Kolesar serves on Josiah Venture’s team in Slovakia on the School of Leaders team.

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Zuzana & David Kittel Zuzka serves as a trainer and mentor for new and veteran youth leaders for Josiah Venture’s partner organization (KAM) in the Czech Republic.