Future Present Lecture Series in Youth Leadership

Welcome to first lecture of the 2011-12 academic year. This is part of the EBF Youth Leadership Training program. This lecture is entitled "Making a Good Youth Ministry Better"? Delivered by Dale Stairs (Canada). Dale is a youth ministry specialist, lecturer and director for Acadia Divinity College youth ministry training and currently working on his PhD at IBTS in Prague. Dale will be taking people through the process of critical evaluation and strategic improvement of your youth ministry. Join us online at 7:00Pm (CET) for this fascinating lecture.

Originally from Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Dale served as Associate Director of the Youth and Family Department from 2005 to 2008. Before that he served as Associate Pastor at Kennebecasis Baptist Church in Quispamsis, New Brunswick for seven years, and was the Pastor of the Wolfville Ridge Baptist Church in Nova Scotia while studying at ADC. Dale has also worked with youth at the Baptist churches in Nackawic, Salisbury, and Grand Bay, New Brunswick.
Dale has taught as an adjunct lecturer at both ADC and ABU, and has served on the Canadian Baptist Ministries Youth Team since 2005.

Dale has graduated from New Brunswick Community College (Diploma in Agriculture), Atlantic Baptist University (BA Biblical Studies), and Acadia University (M.Div). He lives near Saint John, New Brunswick with his wife Twila and three sons.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE LECTURE ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 at 7PM (CET)

Congratulations Jonas Vestlund!

This is just to pass on congratulations to our first Swedish graduate of HORIZONS!  Just to say a big thanks to Jonas Vestlund of Arvika Sweden who just completed the program and has expressed an interest in acting as a mentor for any interested Swedish youth leaders.

Save the Date - BWA World Youth Conference July 17-21, 2013 - Singapore

Welcome to the Netherlands!

We want to take this opportunity to welcome our newest member to join HORIZONS youth leadership training - The Netherlands! Welcome!

More Horizons Graduates!

Congratulations to the following students from the Certificate of Applied Theology Youth Course who "graduated" from HORIZONS this spring! They did an amazing job!

Denys Baranov Ukraine
Adrien Bruggeman Belgium
Livbov Gladkova Russia
Golovanova, Lyudmila Russia
Dilfuza Klycheva
Diana Lingyte Lithuania
Anastasiya Panasovskaya Russia
Oksana Ponomarova Ukraine
Lea Sakr Lebanon
Alexandra Shevchenko Kazakhstan
Alexander Shkut Russia
Olga Yarovaya Russia

Welcome to our new mentors!

On April 5th was the first international mentor training webinar for HORIZONS.  The seminar brought leaders from across 7 time zones and two continents.  We have some new regional directors and mentors  that we want to introduce to you!

Alvin Lau will be the regional director for HORIZONS for the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec in Canada.  John Campbell will be the regional director for HORIZONS for the Baptists of Atlantic Canada.  Viacheslav (Slavik) Rymskyi will be giving direction as a mentor in Ukraine.  Several other mentors are in process and we will introduce them to you as time goes on.  Welcome to the team!

John Campbell

Viacheslav Rymskyi

Alvin Lau

Heavy week ahead...

I will be updating my whereabouts and what is going on next Sunday.   Sorry to keep people waiting.

HORIZONS NEWS! Lecture Series a Success!

We are pleased to announce that the lecture this past Monday with Arthur Brown went very well!  We had 20 in attendance and there was some very good discussion around the topic of managing risky behaviour of youth.

We are pleased to announce that there will be THREE more lectures for March, April and May... the topics and speakers will be announced NEXT week!

Thanks to all those who have been so supportive.

HORIZONS LIVE will be in Croatia this weekend for a Leadership Training Retreat with the Baptist Youth of Croatia (OMV).

HORIZONS IS NOW ON CDROM or FLASH DRIVE!  If you are interested in getting this standalone course (does not need the internet to operate) contact us at horizons@ebf.org

HORIZONS now has over 60 people involved in training in the program!

Keep praying for the ongoing development of Horizons!

Jeff Carter
Horizons Leadership Training
Director
horizons@ebf.org

RESCHEDULE OF LECTURE - 21st of February 7pm (CET)

Due to technical difficulties with the internet connection in Lebanon we have rescheduled the Future Present Lecture on Risk Taking Behaviour and Youth by Arthur Brown based at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut.

The lecture will now be held on Monday, February 21at 7pm CET.

Thanks for your understanding and for those who missed it... this is a second chance to catch a great seminar!

Sincerely

Jeff

THE LINK IS:   http://acadiadivinitycollege.na4.acrobat.com/r96866049

Growing Leaps and Bounds

HORIZONShas been steadily growing with almost 70 participants now registered as either mentors in training or those looking for individual training. Soon we will have a Russian speaking mentor added to our team in the person of Sasha Cheprasov who is a Russian born youth worker trained at IBTS in Prague and in Scotland, now serving in Saint John, New Brunswick Canada. Also the Norwegian Baptist Youth Department are translating Horizons into Norwedgian and will soon be available for mentor training. Several other processes are in the works with Austria, Bolivia, Canada to name a very few.

If you have not seen the HORIZONS website in a while come check us out!