Michal Soukup
During his 18 year long journey as the youth leader in his home church (CB or Church of the Brethren), Michal realized that the most necessary group of people in the Czech Republic to reach is the youth. Those within the age range of 13-19 are often the most open to recognize God and Jesus Christ as their Savior. A couple years ago, Michal met with KAM (Josiah Venture’s partner organization in the Czech Republic) and started organizing English camps. During this time, his heart started to burn for equipping youth leaders. He started to pray and God gave him 2 students to disciple, and finally they became youth leaders. Last year, they started to lead the youth group in Michal’s home church. At the beginning of 2019, Michal left his high position in an insurance company and started to cooperate with KAM to fulfill the vision and mission of Josiah Venture. Michal will build relationships with local churches and youth leaders across Czech to equip young leaders on a weekly/monthly basis. In this role, some of Michal’s main responsibilities with these leaders will be to advise them, pray for them, share his experiences with them, get to know the context of their ministry, and grow these leaders into teachers.
Other Czech Republic team members ↓
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Ellenwood
Mel & Amy
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Krupa
Mark
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Patty
Dave & Connie
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Strock
Gregory & Kori
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Kaspar
Brad & Lucie
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Hust
Samuel & Šárka
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Kuklinek
Jan & Naďa
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Božoň
Petr & Lauren
Nevřela
Tomáš & Lucie
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Drabina
Dušan & Dana
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English
Terry & Hana
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Lach
Bogdan & Martina
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Chestnut
Robert & Audrey
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Kloosterhuis
John & Erin
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Szturc
Milan & Jarka
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Yorman
Casey & Kristin
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Dickson
Kevin & Daniela
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Nelson
Josh & Zuzi
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Rosen
Jonathan & Veronika
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Pospíšil
Jan & Renee
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Davison
Rachael
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Miller
Jim & Lina
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Schwarz
Pavel & Jana
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Bothwell
Brian & Natalia
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Llamas
Landen & Jenny
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Paszová
Miriam
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Geldner
Dušan & Lucie
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Hlavsa Flowers
Shelby
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Pixová
Martina
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Jedlička
Jiří & Jana
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Dietz
Josh & Anežka
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Szturc
Ondřej & Anna
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Hennhofer
Karel & Petra
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Zářický
Tomáš
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Kabut
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Patty
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Tichá
Kateřina
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Bednarzova
Noemi
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Patty
Claire
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Robertson
Ben & Sarah
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Bujoková
Pavlína
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Hammond
Geoff
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Adent
Jacob & Denny
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Vejmělka
Jakub & Monika
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Smith
Sean & Sarah
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Toušek
Michaela & Roman
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Tiffany
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Toušek
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Paul & Molli
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Budd
Julia
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Rokosz
Jan & Tereza
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Kajfoszova
Pavla
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Blažek
Daniel
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Holden
Justin & Lucie
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Řezníček
Jana & Eduard
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Molin
Henryk
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Ward
Sarah
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Mészáros
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Kittel
Zuzana & David
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Macura
Lukáš
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Šnajdrová
Lenka
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Hujdusová
Barbora
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Motlochova
Hanka
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Boszczykova
Iva
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Tuominen
Spencer
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Leech
Catherine
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Kovalov
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