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Petr & Lauren Bozon
Petr grew up in a non-Christian home in communist Czechoslovakia. In 2002, during a short stay in the U.S., he trusted Christ while attending Lauren’s home church in Pennsylvania. As a young believer, he moved back to the Czech Republic where he began attending a church planted by a Josiah Venture missionary, Ken Pitcher. In September 2003, Petr joined the JV team as manager of the Malenovice training and conference center. Lauren followed Petr to Czech in February 2004 and they were married later that year. Currently, Petr is a member of the KAM (JV’s national partner organization) board and heads up all fund-raising for the Czech national team. He manages the construction and reconstruction projects that Josiah Venture undertakes in the Czech Republic, and coordinates the short-term mission teams that come to help. Before the birth of their children, Eliana, Toby and Juliette, Lauren taught English classes at the conference center and tutored private students at home. They make their home in Frydlant, the town where Petr was born and raised. Both are actively involved in the local church plant there.
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Dusan & Dana Drabina
Dusan and Dana have been married since October 2008. Dusan has been serving with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since January 2004. Dusan got his Master’s Degree in Economics in Prague and Diploma in Business Administration from the Sheffield Hallam University. While working for T-Mobile as a manager in purchasing, he was offered a position as Director of Operations for KAM (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Czech). Dusan experienced God’s calling and moved from Prague to Moravia, the village where he was born, nearby the JV headquarters. Dusan is currently a part of the core leadership team of KAM, overseeing operations and finances. He is personally involved in a project with the Czech Ministry of Education helping to implement Ethics curriculum in the public schools. Dana used to work for the Canadian Embassy and organized events for the businessmen and politicians in the region. This created many opportunities for Dusan to build relationships and network. Dusan and Dana live with their beautiful daughter, Abigail, in an apartment in Frydlant, just five minutes from the Josiah Venture headquarters. They attend the Frydlant church, where Dana is involved in worship.
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Tomas & Miriam Galda
Tomas was first introduced to Josiah Venture as a student of the Internship program for youth leaders, and it influenced his youth work. In the fall of 2006, Tomas taught in this same Internship program. His favorite subjects to teach were Studying the Bible and Skills of Youth Leaders, and it was great to see new spiritually strong youth leaders in Czech Churches. In 2010, he began serving with Project EXIT Tour and started to train youth groups in evangelism. Tomas, along with his beautiful wife Miriam and two small sons, Štěpán (Steven) and Jonáš (Jonah) live in a small village called Jablůnka. Tomas is the main youth leader in a local Church in Valašské Meziříčí and preaches in Sunday services.
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Daniel & Daniela Hurta
Daniel and Daniela, along with their four children Jakub, Martina, Eliska and Lucie, have been serving with Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic since September 1998. Daniel worked in their first years coaching youth leaders. Later, he became director of the School of Leaders, where he focused at the national level developing youth pastors. Currently, Daniel is the chairman of JV Czech, and he is also one of the pastors of The Lighthouse Church in Vsetin, which was founded by Daniel several years ago. Daniel and Daniela dream to see young people come to know Jesus and find a place in healthy churches. They live nearby the JV training and conference center in Malenovice.
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Jan & Naďa Kuklinek
Jan worked for Hewlett Packard as a Mission Critical Engineer for eight years. In September 2005, God called him to full-time ministry, and he began to serve in KAM’s (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Czech) internship program, preparing new leaders for ministry. Jan is the leader of the education programs and prepares new leaders for KAM’s Christian outdoor ministry. He and his wife, Nada, also serve in their local church. They have two daughters, Miriam and Nela.
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Lucie & Tomas Nevrela
Lucie joined Josiah Venture in March 2006 to be a part of the Exit316 project helping prepare the way for the Exit316 Christian TV show to be used by local churches. In 2008, she joined a group of four Czech women serving young female leaders through personal discipleship and coaching. In 2009, she also started to work part-time in the KAM (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Czech) office helping with communications. In 2010, she and Tomas got married. Tomas coaches teenage soccer. He loves the opportunity to share the love of Christ with young people through sports. Tomas and Lucie live in Pisek and are part of Elim Evangelical Church where they are involved in youth ministry, Lucie since 1999 and Tomas since 2002. They have been serving and co-leading many evangelistic English camps and sport camps for youth in the region for several years. One of their desires is to see people in the southwestern region of Czech, the most atheistic region in Czech and in central Europe, come to Christ.
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Jan Pospisil
Jéňa has been serving with Josiah Venture since September 2011. Before that he studied After-School Education at the University of Southern Bohemia and after graduation attended the International Conservatory of Prague to study music. During his second year of music school, Jéňa was offered a bass player position with EXIT 316 Tour and saw that God was leading him to be a part of this ministry full-time. Before that he served in the local church and with churches in worship as a musician, was a part of several mission projects in the Central Europe and was a member of several Christian bands in the Czech Republic. Currently, Jéňa is a leadership team member for EXIT Tour International and also plays bass for Dizmas sharing Christ with young people through music.
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Ondra & Klara Svatos
Ondra joined Josiah Venture in September 2004 as a leader of KAM’s (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in Czech) internship program (Staz). This program trains young youth leaders from all over the Czech Republic. In October 2010, he married Klara. They have been serving and co-leading many evangelistic English camps and youth camps in the region for several years. Today, Ondra is involved in discipleship trainings, and he also serves as youth pastor and elder at Elim Evangelical Church in Pisek. He and Klara live in Pisek which is a city of 30,000 people with only 200 Christ followers. Their desire is to see young Christians who are not afraid to step up and become leaders rooted in Christ who bring hope those around them.
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