Each Thanksgiving the Jv family gets together to celebrate together in the Czech Republic. Of course, with everything else this year, it was cancelled and we missed a great time with our brothers and sisters across JV. In Slovakia, we are even limited to 6 people max. Therefore we could not meet with many people […]
Last year, God blessed us with many generous wedding gifts. We decided with our wedding gifts to finish the renovation of our flat (apartment) that Josh bought 4 years ago. He had done a lot of work on it himself, but we decided with the money we received to pay someone to finish the bathrooms […]
In October, we usually try to travel to the States as JV/Kompas to recruit interns and connect with our churches. This year, due to COVID, we were not able to do our tour in the same way as we usually do. As we prayed about this year, one of the main things that God kept […]
At the end of October, we had the privilege and joy to meet our nephew Zeke and spend time with our family in Fort Wayne. We have two nieces on Alica’s side of the family but Zeke is our first nephew and we were very excited to finally meet him. Zeke is almost 7 months […]
On Friday October 2, we had our very first youth group of the school week. At first, we thought we would have to do it on ZOOM, but then the slovak government updated the restrictions and we were able to meet in person which was really exciting. It was our first time together in quite […]
Every year in September, Josiah Venture organizes Fall Conference for youth workers from Eastern and Central Europe. We were looking forward to it but because of the current situation with Covid, Josiah Venture decided to cancel it and instead do a youth leader training that was sent to regions of each country. We in Banska […]
On September 22 Alice turned 25 years old! One of the special things about this birthday is that Josh surprised her on the 20th with a party. Josh told her that they needed to drop off something at the Poloha’s house. When they arrived 23 people were waiting to surprise her. The whole evening was a reminder […]
Many of you have watched for the last couple years for posts about Josh’s Small group, The Mighty Men. As you probably saw, the Mighty Men group ended last year and Josh commissioned them off into the world. One of them, Oliver, has now joined Josh in starting a new small group. The Pathfinders, as […]
After a busy summer of camps, Amazing Race, and the discipleship training; we decided to go on a vacation to Croatia with our friends who also work for Josiah Venture. Our time in Croatia was very refreshing and restful. It was a lot of fun to be able to vacation with another couple and we […]
The JV Kids Camp looked a little differently this year. After a thorough time of prayer, we decided to take on the next group of 8-year olds and begin the journey being JVK counselors for them. We love how much our organization cares for the kids of families on mission. We spent 2 days on ZOOM getting to know […]