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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

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

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

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

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

Ermal & Nertila Gjermeni
Ermal has served as a pastor in the church of the Nazarene in Gorre, Lushnje, Albania since 2011. His core ministries are youth and sports. From an early age, God used football to bring Ermal into his plan. Now, he uses …Read more

Lukas & Daniela Vecerik
Lukáš found friends in the local church during high school. They accepted him amongst themselves despite the fact that he was clearly against the idea of God, and they even allowed him to help organize various youth events …Read more

Peter & Barbora Linkesch
Peter gave his life to Christ at a youth camp when he was 10 years old. He served in various ministries of his church since he was 15 years old. He started with the middle-school ministry (meetings for 10-15 year-olds) at …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

Andrej & Nina Lovše
Andrej and Nina met as teens in their hometown of Maribor, Slovenia. Nina was the first to accept Christ as a result of missionaries sharing Christ outside her high school. A few years later, Andrej became a believer and …Read more
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Peter & Katka Michalčik With over 13 years of experience as a youth leader in a local church, Peter and his wife, Katka, are working with high school and college age youth in Presov, Slovakia.