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Bridgebuilders Dream Team : One year mission to build ongoing youth ministry in challenging places

Looking for young adults ages 18-30 to join our Dream Team for the task of inspiring young people and training them in the art of building bridges. We have two very different regions where we want to start a dream team. One is the Zeeland region of the Netherlands, the other is the North Bohemian part of the Czech Republic.

 

 

 

 

You can join this team for three different time frames: 

1) One year: September 15, 2012 – August 15, 2013

2) Seven months January 15 - August 15, 2013

3) Three months

a) September 15 - November 30 (2012)

b)  January 15 - April 15 (2013)

c)  June 15 - August 15  (2013)

What is a Dream Team?

A dream team is a team of young adults from different countries complementing their talents to build an ongoing and comprehensive youth work in a region. The team starts in the fall (September) (full year project) or in January (7 month project) with a training after which the team starts its mission with research and/or activities in schools. Once a core number of team members is established, others can join for three month (or less) periods.

Your mission

The mission of the team is to build up an ongoing ‘total’ youth work in a region coordinating efforts to gather youth from different backgrounds. Building bridges and breaking down walls means creating a youth community of faith, hope and love where acceptance, tolerance and service are core components. Primary bridges are built to the various churches where youth ministry may be marginalized, fragmentized, undeveloped, or even absent. The strategy is to start in schools and to network with other organizations and with churches in the region to build a structure that fits the needs and challenges facing young people. The team brings their gifts and abilities together to realize the best possible ministry to and with youth.

Has there ever been a comprehensive partnership between different youth organization and denominations to build a ministry together? Yet this type of cooperation and networking is what is needed in our fragmented world today. Atlantic Bridge offers a dream to become reality on a very practical level.

Dream teams are needed in two regions starting in 2011:

SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM: (September 15, 2012 – August 15, 2013

This predominantly rural Protestant region of The Netherlands is a favourite for tourists in the summer. Despite its history and beauty this region also suffers from a malady consistent with the rest of the country. Churches are having great difficulty holding on to their young people. In this region Atlantic Bridge is a welcome guest in the different schools. The task of the Zeeland Dream Team will be to inspire young people in the region in the art of building bridges, to join a Bridgebuilders Club and venture out to build bridges with and to peers from other cultural, ethnic and religious background. The team itself consists of young people in the ages of 18-30 who are from potentially different parts of the world. They actually live out and than teach the mission of  Bridgebuilding in the region.

NORTH BOHEMIA  (September15, 2012 -   August 15  2013)

NORTH BOHEMIA is the most industrialized part of the Czech Republic. It is just north of Prague and borders eastern Germany to the north. Since 1996 Atlantic Bridge has been building pathways into existing structures in this region mostly through music teams, English teachers and activities in schools. The KARAVAAN of Bridgebuilders, started in 2010, is finding its way to North Bohemia and will finally end up there in the summer of 2013. The Dream Team is needed to plan and organise the activities that will take place in various places in North Bohemia that summer.

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