Alexander Flek, BA, MTh, was born 1968 in a Marxist family. At the age of 18 he became a Christian and since the Velvet revolution he served as a pastor of a young congregation in Prague. After several years of a national teaching and church-planting ministry, he responded to the challenge of new Bible translation. Since 1994 he has been the NBK chief translator.
Alexander obtained his first degree in theology in Uppsala, Sweden, and later completed the postgraduate Biblical studies programme at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. He was particularly influenced by studying under two of the NIV translators, Dr. Roy Hayden and Dr. Martin Selman. Alexander and his wife Katherine have two daughters and two sons.
You can read Alexander´s profile in a recent edition of The Prague Post newspaper here.
Jiri Hedanek, MA was born in 1956. After coming to faith in 1970’s, he studied at an underground Roman Catholic seminary. Later he graduated at Prague Charles University, majoring in linguistics-phonetics and in translation theory. He also studied Hebrew and Aramaic at the Hussite Theological Seminary in Prague.
At the time of Communist oppression, Jiri wrote an apologetic book The Resurrection, which was secretly published and became very popular. After years of academic and professional experience, he joined the NBK project in 1999. His competence and his deep spiritual approach have been of great benefit to the NBK work. Jiri and his wife Eva have a daughter and a son.
Board of Trustees
Chairman: Stanislav Bubik, pastor Member: Karel Rezabek, pastor Member: Jaromir Slaby, entrepreneur
