Brian and Natalia Bothwell

Brian is a Southern California native who grew up in a BIC church. He felt a clear call into missions while pursuing a professional music career in Los Angeles. In 2015, he and his band, Divine Attraction, answered the call to serve with Josiah Venture, a missions organization focused on reaching youth in Central & Eastern Europe. They spent the next five years traveling across the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine, sharing the Gospel with thousands of students and ultimately witnessing over 2,000 young people make decisions for Christ – a truly miraculous testimony considering Czech is one of the most atheistic countries in Europe.

The band was based in Czech Republic and connected with the local Church, where Brian met Natalia. Natalia is a Czech native who grew up in a very musical family. Both of her parents have been leading worship and writing songs as long as she can remember, and she and her two younger siblings followed suit. Brian and Natalia instantly connected over a shared passion for worship and were eventually married in 2018.

Brian and Natalia sensed a burning conviction to pour some love and life into the Czech worship community and help shape Czech worship culture. As worship leaders, they were running weary of singing the same 15-20 songs that the church had been singing for the last 15-20 years, and the church was feeling stuck and stagnant. They presented their idea to the Josiah Venture leadership who greenlit Worship Kolektiv in 2020.

Worship Kolektiv is designed to rally worship-leading communities together to deepen understandings of what worship truly is, rediscover its purpose, and unify around elevating leaders’ and musicians’ skills. They sense God’s vision for Worship Kolektiv is to spark a spiritual wildfire in the Czech church. They dream that this worship movement, birthed in the Czech heart language, will be a key catalyst in helping spark and fuel a movement of God among the young people of Czech Republic – one that will radically ripple across the Czech Church and greater Europe.