Marek Linkesch
Marek grew up in Košice, Slovakia. After being involved in church life since early childhood as a pastor’s kid, he made his personal decision to follow Christ at the age of 12. Soon after that, he began serving in the local church, helping with tech stuff and later on leading a small group with younger boys. His first contact with Josiah Venture was through his uncle Peter Hrubo, who is the country leader for TCKompas (JV Slovakia). In 2007, Marek got personally involved in JV ministry volunteering at English camps. He helped run this evangelistic camp for 6 years as a team member and then 4 years as the main leader in his local church. In this ministry he had a privilege to see God move, change the lives of young campers who then became leaders, sharing the good news with their peers. In 2010, he also started serving at KPM (annual JV conference), where he could use his video talent and technical skill to support the effort of training and equipping youth workers from all over Slovakia.
When he was offered a Videographer position on the JV International Communications Team in the Fall of 2016, he was challenged with a choice to keep the stability of his well-paid engineer job, family, friends and the church he grew up in or move to the Czech Republic pursuing this new path. God let him see the potential impact this work could have on the movement as a whole - not just his local youth group. He moved and began serving in January of 2017. He’s passionate about using talents that God gave him to help fuel the movement. Outside of his daily duties on the C-team, he’s trying to point young people to God through the Fusion choir he’s part of here in Ostrava.
Other Czech Republic team members ↓
Ellenwood
Mel & Amy
Krupa
Mark
Patty
Dave & Connie
Strock
Gregory & Kori
Kaspar
Brad & Lucie
Hust
Samuel & Šárka
Kuklinek
Jan & Naďa
Božoň
Petr & Lauren
Nevřela
Tomáš & Lucie
Drabina
Dušan & Dana
English
Terry & Hana
Zegan
Zach & Kara
Lach
Bogdan & Martina
Chestnut
Robert & Audrey
Kloosterhuis
John & Erin
Szturc
Milan & Jarka
Yorman
Casey & Kristin
Dickson
Kevin & Daniela
Nelson
Josh & Zuzi
Rosen
Jonathan & Veronika
Pospíšil
Jan & Renee
Davison
Rachael
Schwarz
Pavel & Jana
Bothwell
Brian & Natalia
Llamas
Landen & Jenny
Paszová
Miriam
Geldner
Dušan & Lucie
Flowers
Shelby
Good
Tyrel & Natalie
Pixová
Martina
Jedlička
Jiří & Jana
Dietz
Josh & Anežka
Szturc
Ondřej & Anna
Hennhofer
Karel & Petra
Zářický
Tomáš
Kabut
Honza & Kateřina
Patty
Tyler & Lara
Tichá
Kateřina
Bednarz
Noemi & Rycho
Patty
Claire
Robertson
Ben & Sarah
Bujoková
Pavlína
Hammond
Geoff
Soukup
Michal
Adent
Jacob & Denny
Janoušková
Anna
Kocyan
Kateřina & Daniel
Vejmělka
Jakub & Monika
Dušek
Kseniya & Mára
Smith
Sean & Sarah
Martináková
Hana
Toušek
Michaela & Roman
Short
Tiffany
Toušek
Tomáš & Hanka
Williams
Paul & Molli
Budd
Julia
Rokosz
Jan & Tereza
Kajfoszova
Pavla
Blažek
Daniel
Holden
Justin & Lucie
Řezníček
Jana & Eduard
Molin
Henryk
Ward
Sarah
Mészáros
Lucie & Filip
Kittel
Zuzana & David
Šnajdrová
Lenka
