Josh Provow, together with his five kids, have lived in Bulgaria since July 1, 2015. Josh was a single parent until he married Bea in 2025. As far as we know, they are the only American-Brazilian family with five kids in all of Shumen. 😉

Josh’s favorite verse:

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.” -Habakkuk 3:17-18

What does he like?

• walks up on the Shumen Plateau
• industrial quantities of coffee
• playing Nintendo with the kids
• The Office
• Star Wars
• homemade banitsa
• eating Bea’s culinary masterpieces
• talking to people about the Bible and Jesus
• taking part in our weekly worship services

His dream

• Their kids to grow up loving Jesus
• To live out the aforementioned verses and to rejoice in the Lord and in whatever He has for him
• For he and Bea to have a strong marriage that shows that love of Christ and gives a living example of a Christian home
• To ordain a Bulgarian citizen to take over the role of pastor
• To establish healthy churches throughout the Shumen Province and for those churches in turn to establish other churches

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