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Petr L. & 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
Given a Bible when he was 14 by his atheistic mom, he began to read it and was persuaded that God must exist. Several months later a classmate became a believer and then led Dusan to Christ in December 1990. After finishing his college education he entered the workplace in Prague working for T-Mobile. In 2003 God called him to leave his job and enter into ministry with KAM, the national organization of Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic. Today he serves as the financial comptroller who cares for systems and finances within the organization.
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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
An information technology enthusiast, 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 internship program, preparing new leaders for ministry. He and his wife, Nada, also serve in their local church. Jan is the director of the internship program, and Nada works with handicapped young people. They have two daughters, Miriam and Nela.
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Bogdan & Martina Lach
Bogdan and Martina Lach began serving with Josiah Venture one month after their wedding in 1998. They worked for many years at the Malenovice Center for Training and Evangelism. During the reconstruction they entered into the Josiah Venture youth pastor internship program in the Czech Republic and began serving the youth in their city of Frydlant. After years of outreach, a youth group was started in 2004 and it has grown in numbers and influence. Today Bogdan and Martina serve as church leaders, worship leaders, youth pastors, disciplers, ministers and coaches for other youth pastors. Bogdan and Martina have two children, Tim and Johanka. Their house is a place of ministry and their vision is for youth to grow in faith and go out with the gospel.
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Lucie & Tomas Nevrelova
Lucie joined Josiah Venture in March 2006 to be a part of the Exit316 project helping prepare the way for Exit316 Christian TV show to be used by local churches. In 2008, she joined a group of four Czech women serving young female leaders in the Czech Republic through personal discipleship and coaching. In 2009, she also started to work part-time in the Czech Josiah Venture office helping with communications. She now lives in Pisek, and since 1999 she has been involved in local youth ministry in Elim church there. For ten years, she has been serving and coleading many evangelistic English camps for youth and families in the region. One of her great 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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David & Lucka Rajca
Raised in a Christian family, David graduated from the KAM internship program in 2000. He then began to serve as youth pastor in his church, organizing English camps and reaching out to students with the Gospel. In January 2008, he joined the KAM evangelism team, helping to organize English camps across the Czech Republic. He is also a member of the advisory board for youth ministry in his denomination. Living and serving in Cesky Tesin, David and Lucka have been married since 2003, and has a daughter named Emma, born June 2008.
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Jirka & Majka Stanislav
Jirka’s brother was the first person to talk to him about Jesus. Over time, Jirka began to think seriously about the claims of Christ and eventually put his trust in Him in 1990. As Jirka grew in his faith, he began leading youth in the church and found that he loved sharing his life with teenagers. He participated in the Josiah Venture/KAM (Josiah Venture’s Czech national organization) Internship Program and in 2006 was asked to serve with KAM as the sports outreach activity coordinator. His vision is to help churches use sports to share the Gospel. He wants to see mature sports leaders and athletes invest in their friends’ lives. Jirka is married to a wonderful woman named Majka, and together they have a two children Eliska and Honza. They live in Vsetin in the eastern part of the Czech Republic.
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Ondra Svatos
Ondra studied in KAM’s internship program in 2000/01, and became one of the leaders in 2003. He has participated in and led English camps with his church for many years, and has a special heart for sports. He is currently a youth group leader at his church in Pisek, in the southwestern part of the Czech Republic.
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Katka Vlnova
Katka, like many other young people in Czech, came in contact with Josiah Venture through English Camps. This one-week camp in the summer of 1995 was life-changing; Katka accepted Christ as her Savior and began her journey as His disciple. She attended Lancaster Bible College in Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in Bible in December 2003. Upon her graduation, she returned to Czech in the beginning of 2004 and joined Josiah Venture. Katka currently serves on the Bteam, walking alongside nationals throughout JV to use her experience in the area of care and training as a support to their existing ministries. She also serves as a consultant in the areas of women’s ministry, discipleship, and camps. Katka lives in Frydlant, and is involved in youth ministry at her church there.
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Lucie Zagorova
When Lucka was 16 years old, she attended her first English camp with Josiah Venture. At that first camp, God began to challenge her heart, and Lucka began asking Him how she could serve the people around her, especially the young generation. In 2002, God answered her prayer as she began full-time ministry with Josiah Venture, first on the team that coordinated English camps for the Czech Republic. Now, as of 2009, she serves on the Bteam, which exists to provide care, support and resources for the entire JV family across all 11 countries. Lucka lives in Cesky Tesin and is involved in her local church, serving in the youth ministry where she disciples high school girls.
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