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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

Emīls Rolavs
Emīls grew up in a Catholic church in a small town of 3500 people in Latvia. His life changed when he started attending a local Josiah Venture Fusion group and eventually ended up joining the team to help out with teaching …Read more

Raimonds & Marta Logins
Raimonds grew up in a small community in eastern Latvia, where he became a follower of Jesus through a youth ministry in a local church. Still a teenager himself, he started leading youth in that same ministry until he eventually …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

Darius & Bia Bocsa
Darius (Romanian) met his wife Bia (Brazilian) at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Both had a desire and passion to serve the Lord and to make the name of Jesus known. Together, they decided to move to Romania because their …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

Sajmir & Irma Brazhdi
In 2011, Sajmir met Irma, who shared his passion for faith and service. Their shared dedication laid the groundwork for a strong partnership, culminating in their marriage in 2015. This union marked the start of a new chapter …Read more

Dominik & Simona Danciu
Dominik, born and raised in Upper Austria, and his wife, Simona, met while they were studying in Bucharest. He was a student at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Bucharest and she was graduating from the Academy of …Read more

Baiba & Aleksandrs Kenigsvalde
When Baiba was 15, she became a believer through the local youth group. Two years later, she joined a local church youth-leader team and was introduced to Josiah Venture (JV) through a missionary serving with them. At the …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
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Oleksandr & Svitlana Kovalov

Anastasia, Pavel

Even before they met in 2002, Alexander and Svitlana were both actively involved in youth ministry. In their local church in Mariupol, Ukraine, through mentoring, preaching, and various projects, they inspired young people to grow in Christ and actively serve him. Outside the church, they organized a large-scale evangelism ministry, using sports, and, over the 11 years of its existence in Mariupol, were able to share the gospel with thousands of young people. In 2022, the war in Ukraine changed everything, and, by the will of God, Oleksandr and Svitlana found themselves in the Czech Republic near Ostrava in March 2022. They immediately began to minister to their fellow countrymen, helping with the needs of the people and preaching the Gospel to them. In 2023, Oleksandr, inspired by JV's vision, became a missionary to serve Ukrainians in the Czech Republic more effectively. Today, Oleksandr and Svitlana are actively involved in planting churches in the region and serving Ukrainians in the diaspora that has resulted from the war in Ukraine. They live in Frydek-Mistek with their two children, Anastasiia and Pavel.

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