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Zuzanna Smolarczyk
Zuza was born in Jaworzno in southern Poland. In her home, her family's approach to God was more religious than relational. Growing up, Zuza struggled with loneliness and insecurity, which deepened after the loss of her …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

Darina Malá
Darina is passionate about music, helping other Christians grow deeper in a relationship with God, and reaching out to young people. She has been involved in youth ministry since high school, but it became more intentional …Read more

Kuldar & Margaret Kaljuste
Kuldar and Margaret Kaljuste joined Josiah Venture (JV) in September 2009. God gave Kuldar a vision to reach young people in his country, Estonia. In 2009, He and his wife both responded to God’s calling and moved to the …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

Pavel Pham
Pavel was born in Ostrava and grew up in a nearby city called Havířov. He did not grow up in a Christian family and was a pretty introverted and silent kid. He just had four friends, like brothers, who he had known since …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

Pavla Kajfoszova
Pavla (Paja) was born in the Czech Republic and comes from a non-Christian family. Before joining Josiah venture (JV), Paja earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics and worked as a Sales officer and Coordinator for Silesian …Read more

Vahur & Eliza Kobin
Vahur first came to a Josiah Venture (JV) English camp as a student in 2009. There, he saw, for the first time, Christ being lived out in other people’s lives, which led him to also choose a lifestyle of living for Jesus. In …Read more

Peter & Eva Hrubo
Peter and Eva met while attending college in Žilina, Slovakia during the communist era. Together they were involved in pioneering a youth ministry in their local church. Married shortly after the Velvet Revolution, Eva began …Read more
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See our new staff with a heart for the youth of this region.

New Staff Raising Support

New Staff Raising Support in UK

Andriiets

Vitaliy & Sofia

Bielov

Serhii

Boldura

Gabriel & Iulia

Bowman

Paul & Val

Cazacu

Christian & Estera

Iordache

Damaris

Kolesar

Simon

Leech

Catherine

Macura

Lukáš

Moldovan

Ruben

Protopopov

Pavlo & Maria

Rokosz

Jan & Tereza

Rolavs

Emīls

Smyček

Zuzana & Jakub

Spieß

Kilian

Tsonchev

Yoan & Nadia

Tsupik

Vladyslav & Yelyzaveta

Vecerik

Lukas & Daniela

Wilkosz

Bartek

Other JV Staff Raising Support

Arnold

Hayley

Bella

Szabolcs & Maggie

Blažek

Daniel

Bradford

Mitchell & Rebecca

Brazhdi

Sajmir & Irma

Cabadaj

Marián & Michaela

Ciorescu

Dorin & Anastasia

Danciu

Dominik & Simona

Dhima

Ioani

Drábková

Barbora

Gjermeni

Ermal & Nertila

Herghelegiu

Alexandru

Hinrichs

Peter

Ivaniuk

Andrii & Tanya

Jumerovic

Zvezdan & Tatjana

Kittel

Zuzana & David

Kovalov

Oleksandr & Svitlana

Krok

Salomon

Kubelka

David & Lucie

Lachmanova

Ester

Mészáros

Lucie & Filip

Moldovan

Timotei

Müller

Sven

Nicolae

Gabriel & Naomi

Oaie

Adina

Pham

Pavel

Rubtsova

Liudmyla

Saagim

Kadri-Kristel & Sven

Skyba

Serhii & Yana

Slobodnychenko

Evan & Olena

Smolarczyk

Zuzanna

Šramo

Benjamin & Hana

Stamper

Claire

Šulka

Petra & Adrian

Szabados

Bálint

Szloboda

Viktor & Eva

Taracinska

Karina

Tokarska

Zuzanna

Valentini

Viktor & Miriam

Vauhnik

Grega

God continues to bless JV with exceptional new staff that have a heart for the youth of Eastern Europe. All of our new staff are raising support to serve on the field full-time.

Welcome our new staff

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.

Support a national missionary

Emīls Rolavs Emīls is leading the Josiah Venture Fusion ministry in Riga and helping all of the other Fusion groups in Latvia, while leading a local Fusion in the capital— equipping leaders and discipling teenagers in a local church in Riga.