Teaching is also a service to the people
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Eva Potměšilová was born on 10 June 1960 in Kaplice in South Bohemia, where her father was an evangelical minister at the time. The family moved to Ledčice in Podřipsko and then to Litoměřice. She wished to become a teacher, but since this was not possible with the cadre profile of a minister’s daughter, she worked briefly as a saleswoman in the evangelical bookstore Kalich and then studied theology. In her first year at the theological faculty, she faced pressure from State Security to cooperate. From 1988 to 1997, she was the pastor of the First Czech Brethren congregation in Prague. During her ministry, she was mainly responsible for the reconstruction of the Bethlehem Chapel in Prokop street and devoted herself to work with youth. In 1997, for personal reasons, she resigned from her position as a parish priest and started working first as a social worker and then as a teacher of PE and science at the Cimburkova Primary School. During her employment, she graduated from the Faculty of Education and she is still working at the school today (2019) with a degree in Religion - Computer Science.
