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Lelde Keice
Lelde was 14 when she became a Christian at a youth camp. She was first introduced to Josiah Venture (JV) in her second year of high school when her local pastor encouraged her to go to a leadership training run by JV Latvia. …Read more

Michal & Sylwia Skiba
In 1997, Michal, a young and inexperienced youth leader, was mentored by a Josiah Venture missionary who modeled Christ’s life and ministry. Soon he and his youth group began leading evangelistic English camps to reach their …Read more

Elisaveta Stoitseva
Lizzy first heard of Josiah Venture (JV) and its ministry in Central and Eastern Europe at a training conference in 2016, and she was captivated by their vision for reaching young people. That’s where she first felt called …Read more

Juljan & Suela Muhameti
Juljan was 14 years old when he became a Christian In Albania. Since his family was culturally Muslim, Juljan first found a copy of the Koran and read it cover to cover. The god described there seemed cruel and impossible …Read more

Łukasz & Jola Kropisz
In 2004 while in a JV nine-month internship program, Lukasz discovered his passion for middle school students and his calling to ministry. That same year he developed El Dorado, a camp and conference ministry in southern …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

Zuza Szymik
Zuza grew up in Poland. She believed in God from a very young age, but most of her life she was surrounded by people who thought God is only for Sunday mornings. She wanted to live differently. When she was 18, she attended …Read more

Zuzana & Feri Džubakovskí
Zuzka decided to follow Jesus when she was 10 at a camp organized by Child Evangelism Fellowship. Since then, her life started to change, and she knew that it would be one big adventure. During her management studies, she …Read more

Anđelko & Kristina Trninić
Anđelko accepted Christ after witnessing God set his brother free from heroin addiction. Anđelko lives with his wife Kristina in Novi Sad, the second biggest city in Serbia. In 2015 he started serving as a youth leader in …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
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Welcome our new staff

David & Lucie Kubelka David Kubelka serves on the Josiah Venture team in the Czech Republic as KAM’s CFO (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Czech).

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Elisaveta Stoitseva Lizzy Stoitseva serves on the Josiah Venture team in Bulgaria as the Executive Assistant and Financial and Operations Coordinator.