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Urh & Doroteja Kolar
Doroteja and Urh both grew up in Slovenia, but in very different families. Neither of them believed in God growing up. They both came to know Jesus through Josiah Venture's Summer camps. They met at a Fusion Camp in 2013. …Read more

Sebastian & Gloria Forjan
Sebastian, raised Catholic, attended church as almost every Slovene but didn’t believe in God. In 1995, he put his faith in Christ. While he served in the army for nine months, God put a burden on his heart for the youth …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

Dorin & Nicoleta Dumitrascu
Dorin is living and serving in Galați; a city in South-East Romania, close to the Republic of Moldova, by the Danube River, a place with a great need for the good news and hope. After years teaching Romanian Literature and …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

Zuzanna Tokarska
Growing up in a believing family, Zuza has known God since she was little. But it was thanks to her time in youth ministry that her relationship with him became personal. At the age of 15, she first came to a conference …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

Jan & Renee Pospíšil
Jéňa has been serving full-time with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since September 2011. After finishing his degree in Education, Jéňa continued studying Music. During the second year of his studies, he was offered …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
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Salomon Krok Salomon wants to equip young people all over Central and Eastern Europe to serve their local churches through photography, film, and graphic design. He has a passion to see them used creativity to bring glory to God and make disciples.

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Szabolcs & Maggie Bella Szabi and Maggie Bella plan to start serving on Josiah Venture’s team in Hungary by spring 2025.