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Mykola & Anna Semenov
Mykola came to Christ at age 14 in eastern Ukraine. He started to serve his church in the children's ministry and that developed into doing youth ministry. Later, he became a deacon in his church and also led the family …Read more

Sven Müller
Growing up in a family of missionaries, serving and helping at church was a normal part of Sven’s life. He is currently serving in his church by leading a group of young people and preaching. He had other big plans for …Read more

Andrii & Tanya Ivaniuk
Andrii was born in 1989 and raised in the city of Rivne in Western Ukraine. It was a difficult period for the country. He grew up in a family with no father, and his mother raised Andrii and his younger brother alone. At …Read more

Kateřina Tichá
Katya comes from a non-Christian Czech family and her first experience with Josiah Venture (JV) was at an English summer camp in 2009. She heard the gospel for the first time and was captured by it. She kept coming back …Read more

Bartek Wilkosz
Bartek’s first involvement with Josiah Venture (JV) was in 2014 when he took part in a camp called Growth Academy, organized by El Dorado—one of JV Poland’s (Fala) national projects. The goal of all of El Dorado’s activities …Read more

Grega Vauhnik
Grega first met God in his local Catholic church; this parish, and the Catholic highschool Grega attended, provided a safe place for his faith in Christ to grow without judgment from his peers; this was a huge blessing from …Read more

Alicja Ryńska
Ala’s journey with Josiah Venture (JV) started in 2018 when her local church partnered with JV to do its first English Camp. During camp, she heard about the JV internship. A year later, she served as a summer intern in …Read more

Gabriel & Iulia Boldura
Gabi was born and raised in a Romanian christian family. Although he lost his father at a young age, he felt God's calling to serve as a teenager. He became involved in his local church in Hunedoara as a youth leader and …Read more

Martina Pixová
When Martina became a Christian back in 2000, Josiah Venture English camp was one of her first ministry opportunities. She immediately fell in love with the English camp culture. She loved serving Czech students side by …Read more

Ruxandra Neacsu
Ruxi grew up with her mom and grandma, who took her to church ever since she was a little girl. After graduating from high-school, she moved back and forth a couple of times for school and work, but was always drawn back …Read more
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Christian & Estera Cazacu Christian and Estera are passionate about serving young people through discipleship. Christian is involved in JV Edge Sports in Romania and Estera is involved in JV Fusion in Medgidia, Romania.

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Pavlo & Maria Protopopov Pavlo is on the Josiah Venture team in Ukraine. He is responsible for Exponential, a church planting conference, in Ukraine, and is a trainer for the European church planting network, M4.