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Barbora Benešová
Baška decided to follow and give her life to Jesus at a teenage church camp at the age of 13 in Slovakia. The Lord began to put on her heart the teenagers in her city, so she began ministering to teens and young adults. …Read more

Alexandru Herghelegiu
Alexandru grew up in a Christian family of ministry workers with biblical values. He always wanted to serve God in the church, but didn't know how. Not until the age of 17, when Christ revealed Himself personally, and from …Read more

Ema Lee
Ema has been serving in the local church in Zagreb, Croatia as a youth leader for over a decade now. She first heard of Josiah Venture (JV) and their ministry in Central and Eastern Europe at an English camp in 2006. She …Read more

Terry & Hana English
Terry arrived in the Czech Republic in 1997 to teach English at a Christian language school in the city of Ostrava. During that year, he established an outreach model to reach Czech youth based on rock/gospel choirs and …Read more

Kadri-Kristel & Sven Saagim
Kadri-Kristel served as a Josiah Venture (JV) summer intern in 2021. She had been leading the youth ministry in her home church for two years by that time, and the desire to serve more widely started to grow during the internship. Sven …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

Daniel Blažek
Dan comes from Písek in South Bohemia, Czech Republic where he grew up in his unbelieving family. Since his childhood, however, he attended various basketball camps where he was able to hear about God for the first time. …Read more

David & Lucie Kubelka
David grew up in Jirkov, Czech Republic in a Christian family. Thanks to his background, he attended his local Christian church from a young age. When he was 5 years old, he went to youth and teenage events organized by …Read more

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

Simon Kolesar
Šimon gave his life to Jesus at the age of twelve. At the age of fifteen, he started serving in the Lutheran church in Hanušovce nad Topľou, where he helped with the youth ministry. Later, he became part of the high school …Read more
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Hayley Arnold Hayley Arnold is joining the Josiah Venture team in Ukraine in Spring 2025 as a school coordinator in the city of Ternopil.

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