Egypt and the Middle East

In January 2010, Growing Leaders returned for a third round of training in Cairo.  We engaged students and youth workers and teachers in the Habitudes series.  We translated Habitudes Books One, Two and Three in Arabic and printed copies for leaders and students to use all over the Arab world. Our team hosted a “Train-the-Trainer” event where more than 350 staff and youth workers were trained in how to use the Habitudes materials to equip young people across Egypt and the Middle East.  Plans are underway to return to Egypt in 2012 to continue the work in this strategic part of the world.  In light of recent events, we are more committed than ever to raise up character-based young leaders throughout Egypt and the Middle East.

Brazil

In February of 2009, Growing Leaders launched an emerging leader training process in Latin America. We began in San Paulo, Brazil, a major city in the largest country in South America. We worked with students and youth workers, as well as staff who teach in schools, churches and other youth organizations. This series of events began a journey of partnering with our hosts to print Habitudes books in Portuguese and Spanish, and train the trainers from local areas from all over Brazil.

The Growing Leaders team travels to Brazil in April 2011 to speak at a large gathering of youth pastors from around the country and to provide training on how to use the Habitudes materials to equip young leaders.   

Equipping Leaders Asia

Growing Leaders partners with Equipping Leaders Asia (ELA) to train young leaders in that region of the world.  In 2007, Growing Leaders held a launch event in four different countries in Southeast Asia.  Tim and the Growing Leaders team traveled with ELA staff to China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore igniting a leadership culture in the heart's of students and staff along the way.  A team from Growing Leaders returned in November of 2009 and provided leadership and mentor training events for numerous groups in Singapore.  In January 2010, the ELA team began implementing the Habitudes materials for the first time in local schools around the country.  In addition, several universities in China use the Habitudes curriculum with their college students.

Growing Leaders has also worked alongside the house church movement in China to equip their leaders through live training events and a strategic partnership that allows us to publish three of our resources: the Habitudes series, Nurturing the Leader within Your Child, and Mentoring: How to Invest Your Life in Others.  

Plans are underway for the Growing Leaders team to return to Asia in July 2011.  We will provide leadership training for youth workers and co-host a parenting conference through a local church.  

Afghanistan

Growing Leaders has served leaders in Afghanistan since 2006 when our team trained both government leaders and university students in leadership.  This was a remarkable opportunity to impact the current eaders of that country, as well as tomorrow’s leaders who will take their places of influence as government officials, attorneys, doctors and business people. The first book of the Habitudes series has been translated and printed in Dari.

In 2011, we want to print and publish a second Habitudes Book in the Dari language for use in universities, NPOs, government departments and businesses there. The Habitudes resources are a great way to engage the leaders of that nation in timeless, Judeo-Christian values and leadership principles. It ensures an ongoing leader development process that builds healthy, life-giving leaders there.  

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