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The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Faith Brings Light to Eastern Europe with Dave Batty
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Tudor Dixon
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today we are going to be talking Missionaries And I know that's something that we don't get to talk about every day, but on Sunday I was at church and this amazing guy was at church talking about his life story and a. An organization called Josiah Venture. And I was, it really resonated with me. This is a gentleman who had the call to mission to be a missionary. He's a second generation missionary. He had the call to Central and Eastern Europe. And as I was listening to the story, I'm like, man, not only, you know, the Bible is timely, but not only is this timely when it comes to faith in the, in the rising faith in the United States, but also with everything that's going on in the world stage. So I'm glad that Dave Patty agreed to join me today on the podcast. Dave, thank you.
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Dave Patty
Thank you so much. It's a privilege to be with you.
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Tudor Dixon
I'm so excited. So I want to go a little bit through Josiah Venture because I was listening to your story on Sunday and I'm like, I don't know how you know, and I thought it was interesting because you said you just felt this moment where you're like, I'm being called to go to Central and Eastern Europe. And you talk to your wife about it and she's like, I love that you're being called. Not sure I am.
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Dave Patty
Yeah, that's right. Well, I was involved at. My first experience in Central Eastern Europe was right after communism fell. So if you can imagine six from the time the wall fell, I was in Budapest in a high school talking to Hungarian young people about God, which would have six months earlier been just absolutely illegal. And I came home from that trip with just this huge burden on my heart for a whole region of the world that had just opened to freedom, just come out from communism and had been under incredible oppression. So every year for the next couple years we did these short term trips into the region, but we had small kids, so my wife never went with me. And then there was a spot when the Soviet UN unions started coming apart that I just. Actually, I heard someone speak and they said, we're at a hinge of history. This kind of change only happens in a region once in a generation. Imagine the number of countries that came free during that time. And they said, it's important for us to just make as much progress as possible in rebuilding these countries and rebuilding the spiritual foundations of these countries. So I came home and said to my wife, I think God is calling us to Central Nice and Europe. And she did not respond very enthusiastically. If you can imagine you were.
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Tudor Dixon
You grew up. I mean, you grew up as a missionary. Your parents were missionaries. You said you came back when you were five, but you had to have grown up with that knowledge and understanding. Was that her background as well?
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Dave Patty
No, that wasn't her background. She. She grew up in Oregon and her dad was a salesman. So I. I had more of that ethos in. In my personality. And I guess even. Even from when I was about 12 years old, my. My dream was to be involved overseas in countries and hard places and dark places where I had the opportunity to tell people about God and. And teach the Bible in those places.
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Tudor Dixon
Hard places and dark places. And sometimes I feel like we are in that situation here. But you went someplace that is considered an atheist country. But tell me about that moment, because I think that it's very. I always think it's fascinating to hear about that moment when God lays something on someone's heart and they're unsuspecting and it hits them very hard. And that happened for your wife, right?
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Dave Patty
It really did. Yeah. So sometimes when we talk about, you know, God's call, where does that come from? And sometimes it comes from seeing a need and just sensing you want to respond and dreaming about how God could maybe use you to make a difference. And then there's sometimes where it's just. It's almost like a supernatural moment. I really believe that God speaks to us in different ways, and there are times he just grabs us. And so we actually. We were talking about this move, and it created so much tension in our marriage that I finally told my wife, we're not going to talk about it. Because I said, I'll just pray and if this call is from God, that he'll change your heart. And her response was, oh, good, this is over. We're not going to move to Central and Eastern Europe. And then something really strange happened. It was over Christmas, and we had given our young kids to her parents to take care of, and we got a couple of nights away. And at that time, there were the. The tryouts for the Olympics were on tv. And the Romanian gymnasts, which, if you remember, the Romanian gymnasts were amazing. They were on. And I walked out of the room to go down the hall to get a bucket of ice and came back in and just noticed my wife just staring at the tv. And she turned and she said, now, what did you mean about central Eastern Europe and young people? And I just set down my eyes.
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Tudor Dixon
And you're like, here it is.
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Dave Patty
Happened. Oh, no. And then I said, why? And she Said, well, I was just looking at those Romanian young girls, and I thought I could love them the same as I've loved American teenagers. And something changed in my heart. And something did in just a moment. And it was just. It was amazing that God changed her heart. She said, I think I'm ready to go. So in 1993, we moved with our young family, this is not long after the revolution, into a corner of the Czech Republic. And we felt like we moved to the end of the world. Now there's ends of the world that are much more desolate than that. But everything was gray. We were the only Americans in a broad area. It felt like everything was just covered as a layer of soot, including the people. You would never see someone smile. They wouldn't catch your eyes. If you greeted someone on the street, they thought you were about ready to rob them because you never talked to a stranger. And I remember my wife going into the store for the first time that the best stores were like low grade 7, much worse than a 7 11. And she came back home and she said, I don't know how I'm going to feed this family, where I'm going to buy things. So it was a huge step of faith for us to make that move.
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Tudor Dixon
And. But it hasn't been easy. And that's the thing that I loved about what you said on Sunday. It's like, this has been a challenge the whole time. And I'm like, how do you do that? Because I think it's so easy, especially now in the United States, because we are a spoiled society. When it gets very hard, we're like, okay, let me find something else. But you guys have stayed. You created Josiah Venture. You had a vision. The vision was a movement of God among the youth of Central and Eastern Europe that finds its home in the local church and transform society. And that's a big vision because there wasn't that much of a local church there. But you knew going to the young people was the answer.
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Dave Patty
Yeah, well, you know, Czech Republic is the most atheist country on earth. And so I remember I started teaching in the high school and I asked my students, do you believe even in the existence of God? And there was only one student in a class of 30 that even believed God exists. Now, this is not even someone who has active faith in God. So we were really moving to the. What we felt to very different. But we had this vision. And part of it was, as you look at these countries, they were trying to rebuild economically, they were trying to rebuild educationally. But You've got to rebuild the soul of nations as well. And you don't have, if you don't have spiritual foundations in a nation, really, most of the other things don't work. I remember reading a quote from Vaclav Havel, who was the first president of the Czech Republic, and he said, the worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different than what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth or dimension. And so it was really interesting that the first president was saying, we have a soul crisis in our nation. That's really where things come from. And so we had this vision to be part of rebuilding these nations by rebuilding the spiritual foundations of young people and basically helping local churches reach young people and create communities of young people that are centered around the Bible and around faith in Jesus Christ. And we felt like that would change countries. Now that was a big vision. We just had two couples, four people in 1993 and we moved in. I remember thinking, there is no way this is going to make any difference. No way anything's going to happen for this. Our church had a youth group of five people and the, the youngest was 23 and the oldest was 71 in our little small youth group. And we were in a town of 100. Yeah, we were a town of a hundred thousand. I went, how in the world are we going to make any difference here? So it was slow and tough in the beginning, in those early days.
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Tudor Dixon
So I love the fact that you had these kind of miracle moments where there have been leaders who've said there's a crisis here and have kind of let you fill in those spaces, because there certainly were doors open that didn't have to be opened. In your stor story. I think what was most interesting to me was your story in church started with a young. A video of a young man named Pavel. And it was so powerful to me to see him because we saw him as like a 13 year old. And then he was a young adult. And at 13 he said, I was angry and I didn't know what to do and I didn't know what to do with my anger. But I went to this place and what struck me about what he said was I saw these people that had this sense about them that I wanted to be like them. And I think that's the joy of Christ. You know, I think what he saw was the joy of Christ and, and to, to have somebody who is in a culture as you said that is beaten down. The people have been beaten down. Communism has taken over the. The region. Everybody is depressed. There's been a lot of war. They are now hungry. Everything's great. You talk about, you set the scene very well for what the community is. And it's almost like those. I mean, the way my mind's eye sees it is those videos where everybody's in like a dark and dingy scene. It's almost black and white. And then they walk into a room and it's filled with a rainbow of colors. It's almost like that's what his soul felt when he walked in there.
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Dave Patty
Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. You were saying Pavel. And he's one of thousands of young people who've come to faith in Jesus Christ through our work in local churches there. And it's so interesting because I love lighting a match in a dark place because you really see it and you really see the difference. And we've just, you know, when you think of someone who has no faith in their background, he didn't have a single relative in his extended family who believed in God or had any connection with church. And so when I think, coming from a Christian background, I think, what would it be like if that was missing in my life? If life was just going to work, making money, retiring and dying and I didn't have any higher meaning or the spiritual dimension of my life was just empty because I had no relationship with God. I can't imagine what life would be like. And yet so many of those young people, they don't even. One of the things when I asked in my class, do you believe in God? All of them said, I'm an atheist. And I would ask why, and they couldn't tell me why. They were cultural atheists, which is really interesting. And they never really had. They never met someone who had living faith. And I remember one of the teachers, we had a teacher's meeting and she leaned over and she said, I was the first Christian teacher in the history of this school right in the very beginning. And she leaned over and she said, I always thought that Christians were either really weak, so they needed a crutch, or very old. And she said, you seem to be pretty smart and you're young. Why in the world do you believe in God? And so that was kind of the background. But then when you saw young people come to faith in Christ, it's like you said, the lights came on, changed every aspect of their life, changed their sense of hope, their sense of meaning, their purpose, how they approached like what Pavel said. He said God removed anger from his life, gave him different relationships. So it's pretty exciting for us to see that kind of transformation happen in really thousands of young people.
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Tudor Dixon
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon Podcast.
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Tudor Dixon
One of the interesting openings that I think you had is you mentioned that people said well if you're teaching English, my parents will let me come because they believe that that's the key to so many more opportunities. So you got to here you are in the United States. You get this call, you get to go there and use your language, your life, what you know, to reform an entire country's youth.
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Dave Patty
Yeah, I didn't expect that. And that's one of the things about when you're following God's call. He often has a lot of plans that you don't know anything about and he opens them up as you go. I was learning Czech and I speak fluent Czech. I thought it's, you know, it's breaking the rules to use English when you're working overseas. But I found that all the young people, their ticket to the world is English. So we began teaching English and then did an English camp. And then all of a sudden young people from that camp were interested in joining this little youth group in our church, which all of a sudden became a youth group of about 60 with a bunch of young people. And we really found these camps were one of the keys to drawing in young people and exposing them to a community of believers and to what it means to have faith in Christ. Because they would come to learn English and we would teach them English, but we would also talk to them about what it meant to have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. And So we did one camp that first year in 1990, four, three the next. Since then we've done 2,000 week long camps in partnership with local churches across the region with over 120,000 young people. So that was what started just with four people in the beginning, has blossomed. And that's just one of the ways that we use to reach young people through cancer. We also go into schools, we have a whole music ministry, a sports ministry. It's really about how do we gather young people into community, healthy communities that are very different than what they've experienced before. And then over time they begin to learn about faith in God and what a relationship with Jesus Christ can do to really transform your life.
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Tudor Dixon
So over a hundred thousand in a country of how many?
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Dave Patty
Well, actually that's in more countries than just Czech, but we also, I don't know how many it's been in Czech. It's a lot in Czech. But we also have been face to face with over 150,000 people in schools. There's just, there's a lot. We were able to TV program on Czech television that so all kinds of doors open to really talk about that.
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Tudor Dixon
Because I thought that was fascinating because that, that's that moment where there is a, almost a government push to bring culture back. And I think that there's something Here that we kind of want to touch on is that the Czech Republic is very into preserving what the Czech Republic is. They don't allow immigration. They're very cautious about who they let into the country. The culture is important. But in that, I feel like when you were talking about that, it seemed like, wow, that was a moment where the country said, we need a healing, we need hope. This man is bringing hope. They saw you as bringing hope to their country, and they're very particular about what let in.
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Dave Patty
They certainly are. Yeah. They're very competent, very proud people. They're very capable, and they aren't easily manipulated. They're pretty strong. So what happened was we were working with young people and we had an intern, and one of them. We had the graduation for our interns, and I met this intern's father and I said, what are you doing? He says, I produce television shows for Czech Television. And I said, what's your dream for the future? He says, I wish there was a way that we could have some kind of spiritual content on tv, because there's none of that. They're not getting anything about something that would build a moral foundation. And I said, yeah, wouldn't it be great if there was a Christian show for young people on tv? And he looked at me and he said, you're not serious, are you? And I said, well, I'm serious. It's a great idea, but something like that's not possible. And he said, well, would you pray about it? And I said, yeah, sure. He said, if the door opens, would you do it with me? I said, yeah, maybe. And so about six weeks later, he said, I've just contacted Czech television. They actually are concerned about the moral slide among young people, and they're open to doing a Christian show. And they said, if you will produce it, they'll air it for free. And so then we asked, well, how many do they want? And they said, we did a pilot. And they said, why don't you do 17 episodes? So we began to broadcast on national TV a show called Exit 316, which is just basically stories of young people, lives who've been changed by Christ and changed by learning how to live like the Bible tells them to live. And we just would tell these stories on national tv. Well, it was going so well that they said, why don't you do another 13 episodes? And then they said, do another 15 episodes. And we aired twice a week on national TV in the most atheist country on Earth, stories of young people's lives who've been changed by Christ. So that was pretty exciting and it was reaching hundreds of thousands of people every week. So I became the producer of a TV show in the Czech Republic and I don't have any TV background but then they said, would you do it again? So we broadcast twice a week on national TV for two full years in the Czech Republic. And it was like, it was like it just was changing the whole moral environment of the country to hear those stories.
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Tudor Dixon
And I love that because it's young people sharing their story. You put together young people's stories that they could reach out to other young people. Now there's been kind of this phenomenon of TikTok. So I wanted to talk about that because you talked about these young TikTok ministers and we complain about TikTok so much because of the content that is crazy and taking kids in bad directions. But there is a lot of faith content out there and you are finding that people in Eastern Europe are able to use it to reach hundreds of thousands.
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Dave Patty
Yeah, that's right. So if I, you know, fast forward today. I started about their story in 1993 was just two couples. Now we're working in 16 countries of central and Eastern Europe. So I live in the Czech Republic but we have staff in 16 countries. We have 380 full time staff and we're working with, we'll train about 7,000 young leaders in a typical year. So what we try to do, the reason for our name Josiah Venture is because Josiah was a king in the Bible, who was a young king and he followed some really bad kings before him, but he charted a different direction. He really brought his nation back to God and it changed the whole nation. And he did it as a young person. And so we said, how do we find the young Josiahs, those young influencers who will influence in a different direction, influenced by their faith in God and influence their generation for Christ because we feel like they can make changes in the entire country. And so we're always looking for those young people that are making a difference. But one of those is in Serbia. His name is Alexa and he had a radical experience with God as a 15 year old and really came to faith in Christ, started reading the Bible. It totally changed his life. And then he looked at all his friends and they went, they're on these all the time. But there's no one who's giving any different message. So he propped up his phone on an orange, he had an old Android phone and put it on an orange and recorded one TikTok just talking about his faith in God. And put it away. 5 views, 6 views 8 views and then he went, this doesn't make any difference. Came back a couple days later and it had blown up because another famous tiktoker in the nation had absolutely made fun of him. But it drew everyone's attention to his TikTok and so they started watching him.
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Tudor Dixon
So funny how God works.
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Dave Patty
Yeah, he started posting tiktoks every day and these are straight up. He talks about how, here's what the Bible says about this issue and this is why faith in Jesus Christ will change your life. Just totally straightforward. This young, now he's 17 years old, Serbian guy, but he has a hit regularly. His tiktoks will reach a half a million people. So if you can imagine this young 17 year old who just is boldly proclaiming a message that's very different than what's normally out there on TikTok.
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Tudor Dixon
Is that dangerous in that area?
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Dave Patty
Well, it can be because some people, yeah, Serbians are pretty hot blooded. But I think they're also curious about a young part of it is when you get a young person's voice it's different. They're not quite as threatening. There's a vulnerability to it. But he's regularly reaching half a million people in a country also that doesn't have a strong church.
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Tudor Dixon
I love this story because we keep hearing that Christianity is losing ground and I don't think that we have been been. My dad used to always tell me, advertise your progress because nobody else cares unless you're telling them what you're doing. And I don't think we do that enough in the Christian world is to advertise our progress. And I know that, you know, we have a big Arab American community in the state of Michigan and in the Muslim community they are, they are strong about advertising their progress. And so I think a lot of Christians feel like, well, we're kind of falling behind. And when I hear these stories, that's why when you were at church I was hearing these stories and I'm like, we need to share this because for those of us who this matters deeply to, it's important to know that there is progress being done and that people like you have created something from four people to go to over 300 people across multiple different countries. That's an amazing feat. And it, it, there is God's, God's fingerprints on every part of this. But it hasn't been easy. I think that's the one thing that you said. The wind of spiritual opposition is constant. Where you are and yet you stay doing it. So tell us a little bit about what the opposition is like.
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Dave Patty
Well, it's interesting because one of the opposition, one of the things has been my family's been sick most of the time we've been there, and with crazy things that you wouldn't expect. It's not like we live in the jungle where you would catch malaria or something like that. But it felt like every time we would head into something new, my wife would get sick or my kids would get sick. I stayed healthy most of the time. But then also there's opposition. I've had my life, life threatened by parents whose kids come to faith in God and they're afraid of what that's going to be and have threatened our lives in that. But then the other thing is there just is a sense of darkness. And I think that's true in the United States, too. But in areas of the world where there's small faith in God, you actually feel it. You sometimes just feel that you're pushing into a headwind. The darkness of discouragement and hopelessness really presses in on you. So we've been at this for 31 years, but it's not easy. We just keep going.
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Tudor Dixon
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon podcast.
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Tudor Dixon
So in the time that you've been there, suddenly you have this war breakout in Ukraine, which is right next door to where you live. And you, you took a turn in your ministry to provide relief to Ukraine, and that was something that you again, didn't have any history with, but God provided. So tell us a little bit about that.
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Dave Patty
And this is one of the amazing things about serving God. And the call of God is again, he has plans that we don't know about. And I always feel like we get invited into his work and it's always surprising to see what he has. So we have 27 staff in Ukraine and also staff in all the countries around it. And so when the war broke out, we were deeply affected because the refugees were pouring into the countries where we live in and pouring from the country that this war was happening in. And so some of our staff evacuated in the first couple days and then we went, wait, we've got to help with this. And so we strategized and within five days we were sending aid. We found that the border was a very difficult place because men couldn't leave. But they would come and just drop off their wives and kids at the borders and sometimes stand there in the middle of winter for three or four days, then try to get across. And they don't. Yeah, days. And with young kids in a plastic bag of everything that they own and then they'd get across the border and then try to figure out where they were headed next. They didn't speak the language. So within five days we began sending tour buses across the border to pick up refugees and bringing them back and then connecting them with local churches in the country surrounding them. So we were taking them into the hands of believers who would care for them and really cared about them. And we brought 51 buses of people across the border and then we would send them back filled with aid. Now we're not an aid organization, we're a youth ministry organization. But we had to pivot and within five days we basically reorganized our whole team around helping the situation. But the advantage we had over large aid organizations is we know the people everywhere. And so we could pick up a phone and call this pastor or contact this person. And so we were able to get aid right to the place where it needed the most. We'd get a phone call from someone on the front, front lines and they'd say we need diapers. And we could have them to them in one day. By, we became the largest buyer of kind of the Costco version in the Czech Republic. And within, in a period of a year, we were able to provide $7 million of aid to Ukraine. And we're not an aid organization, we're a youth ministry organization. But we were just channeling that, that to people and we're still very engaged there. We're not doing as much aid right now, but actually I talked to our team this morning and they're getting ready for their summer of ministry. One of the staff, she's a 23 year old and lives in Irpin, which you've seen on the news. And I just talked to her about what it's like to be there right now. But one of the things that maybe you don't hear about is believers are really stepping forward and the church is making a huge difference in Ukraine right now. And she talked about, she said last Sunday they had the, the anniversary of their church in Irpin and she said a thousand people were there.
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Tudor Dixon
Wow, that's amazing.
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Dave Patty
She said, she said the church is making such a difference in, in that area and we'll do 37 camps with young people, with Ukrainian young people this summer all the way from the front lines. And there'll be thousands of several, several thousand Ukrainian young people in camps that we're leaving this summer in these next couple years of, of weeks.
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Tudor Dixon
As you were telling this when I was listening to this on Sunday, I was just thinking, God knows everything. He's. He already saw that before it happened. You know, he knew that was where you needed to be and he knew this war would happen. And you tell such a different story of the war than we know because we know the higher level negotiations. But you, that when you said that men, I mean, it brings a tear to my eye when you said that Men are dropping their wives and children at the bottom border. When we hear the people in government in the United States saying, we want the killing to stop, we don't want to lose 5,000 men a day, this is crazy. We've got to stop this. I think about how many of those people were dropped off in the cold for three days and never saw that man again.
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Dave Patty
Yeah. Oh, that's, that's right, yeah, yeah. I mean, it brings a lot of emotion to me as well when you hear that, that just the impact on the families. We just, we need to pray and do everything we can to bring this war to an end. It's impacting people every day. So when I to our staff, they say, yeah, every night we just hear explosions, you know, all through the night. And they're right out there in the, in the midst of it. Two of our team members, well, when one of our team members was driving, he's a, he's a man in his mid-20s with his wife and, and one and a half year old kid. He gets stopped at a, at a police checkpoint and pulled into the army, you know, because they, they have to get the men out there to defend the country. So his wife is up, she doesn't have a driver's license, and all sudden she's left in the car alone with her one and a half year old husband's gone for the foreseeable future. She doesn't know if she'll even see him again. And these are men on our staff that are now serving in the military. Another one was just walking down the streets of the town and got stopped and pulled and couldn't even go back to his apartment building. So there's both the death and destruction, but there's also the ripping of families and the sense in these young families of will I ever see my dad again? So as we're working with the young people, many of them, their fathers are gone, their fatherless homes and they don't know even if they're going to get pulled into the military. So really caring for the soul of that young generation in Ukraine is crucially important. So we've got seven churches that are right on the border, right on the front lines and they're pastors who stayed there and their youth groups. Youth group is the only place where young people can gather together because their school is all online and all the communities are shut down. And there are these pastors who are shepherding these young people right on the front lines. And we'll do seven camps with them. And they just said get us as far away from the noise of the bombardment as possible. So we're taking them into the mountains in the far west and going to give them a week of camp together and create community. But also talk about a hope that's bigger than just this life and a hope that's rooted in a relationship with God that is independent of what's going to happen politically, that you have a foundation that's deeper than just the circumstances around you.
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Tudor Dixon
I mean, truly, truly amazing work that you're doing. I just want to, before we close, you are second generation, but you've raised a third. You're wondering what's going to happen with the fourth. But your kids are also missionaries, correct?
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Dave Patty
That's right. My kids are missionaries. And so we're in third generation missionary. So I have a. I have a son that serves in Albania, another son that serves in Czech, and a daughter in Germany in the eastern portion of Germany. So, yeah, it's in the third generation. And maybe, maybe we'll raise a fourth.
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Tudor Dixon
So tell us, tell everybody. I know as they've listened to this about Josiah Venture and everything that you're doing, I know there's a lot of people out there that will want to help out. So tell us where they can go to find out more about it, how they can contribute to what you're doing over in Eastern and Central Europe.
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Dave Patty
Yeah, you could. We have a website, www.josiahventure and it's not Josiah Adventure, it's Josiah Venture. So think of the name the King Josiah, and then just venture.com and there you can see our different teams. You can go and search one of the countries. You can see all our Ukraine staff. There's different projects there. But one of the things I would just say is if our strength is in our national staff is in our Ukrainians, our Poles, our Czechs, our young leaders who are really serving on the front lines. And if any of any of your listeners wanted to just adopt one of those young people that are making a big difference, you'll see all their pictures on our website. Or you could just write. You can even write me a note through our website and just be a part of what God's doing there, which is really exciting.
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Tudor Dixon
That's amazing. I love it. I love your story. I love what you're doing, and I'm so glad you came on to share it today. Dave, Patty, thank you so much.
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Dave Patty
Oh, thank you so much as well.
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Tudor Dixon
And thank you all for joining us on the Tutor Dixon podcast for this episode and others go to the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and you can watch the video on Rumble Uterdixon. But make sure you join us next time and have a blessed day.
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Dave Patty
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Tudor Dixon
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