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Welcome to the Tudor 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 an organization called Josiah Venture.

And I was, it really resonated with me.

This is a gentleman who had the call 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 rising faith in the

United States, but also with everything that's going on on the world stage. So I'm glad that Dave

Patty agreed to join me today on the podcast. Dave, thank you. Thank you so much.

It's a privilege to be with you. 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 talked to your wife about it. And she's like, I love that you're being called. Not sure I am.

Yeah, that's right. Well, I was involved in my first experience in Central and Eastern Europe was right after communism fell.

So if you can imagine six months 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,

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