Afghanistan

In 2006, Growing Leaders took our first trip to Afghanistan. In 2009, the Growing Leaders team will be returning to Afghanistan for a second year to train both government leaders and university students in leadership. this is a remarkable opportunity to impact new leaders who run that country, as well as tomorrow’s leaders who will take their places of influence in parliament, as attorneys, doctors and business people. Habitudes has already been translated and printed in this country—but we will further impact the government and NPOs and NGOs in that nation. This is a marvelous opportunity to impact the new government and university leaders in Afghanistan and other Dari speaking countries. 

In 2010, we plan 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.  We still need about $6,000 to complete this project. If you are able to help. You can donate to this cause here.

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. Habitudes has already been translated into Spanish; Portuguese is forthcoming in 2010.

Egypt and the Middle East

In January 2010, Growing Leaders returned for our third round of training in Cairo and beyond.  We engaged students and youth workers and teachers in the Habitudes series.  We printed Habitudes Books One, Two and Three in Arabic and printed copies for leaders and students to use all over the Arab world. Our team to 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.  Sixty three additional youht workers attended the conference than planned, and so we still need $3,000 to complete all the funding for this project. If you can help, donate here.  Plans are underway to return to Egypt in 2011 to continue the work in this strategic part of the world.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America

In 2006, Growing Leaders launched a pilot program with the Boys and Girls Club of Cobb County, Georgia for the disadvantaged and "at risk" kids of that area who showed leadership potential. Growing Leaders held regular training events and arranged for visits to the Martin Luther King Memorial and Chick-fil-A headquarters, where the students were equipped and inspired to make the world a better place. At the conclusion of the course, students received a certificate of completion and a driver's liscense, signifying that they had been given the challenge to take control of their lives and drive them toward success. Since that time, numerous clubs around the metro Atlanta area have used the Habitudes materials to mentor students.  We hope that this program will be a model that is replicated all across the country.  If you are interested in underwriting a Habitudes program for a local Boys and Girls Club, please contact Holly Moore at 678-384-4485 or by email at holly@growingleaders.com.
View a sample drivers liscense here!

India Partnership

India is currently using a new Habitudes curriculum that Growing Leaders coach Steve Moore has been using to train young church planters partnered with the Vision 2000 movement. Vision 2000 is the largest church planting movement in the country, having planted 25,000 churches in a period of eight years. Young leaders are especially important in the process as the average age in India is approximately 24 years old.

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/Habitudes Experience in four different countries in Southeast Asia.  TIm and the Growing Leaders team met up with ELA and traveled 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.

Growing Leaders has also been blessed with multiple opportunities to work alongside the house church movement in China in training their leaders through live training events and through a publishing partnership that will allow us to publish three of our resources: Habitudes, Nurturing the Leader within Your Child, and Mentoring: How to Invest Your Life in Others through a government-approved publisher, which will allow these books to be sold in regular bookstores across the country AND allow Growing Leaders to use these materials in events within the country. Our publisher is even prepared to set up a book tour of the universities for Growing Leaders when these resources become available.