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COHORT BRAVO TEAM

The 2nd team (Cohort Bravo) of the Emerging Leaders Cohort program met Saturday 9am-5pm on September 9 at Chicago UBF to have fellowship and learn from each other through study and discussion on the Session 1 topic of God's Reign and Kingdom.

The Cohort participants are (from L to R): Ben West from Minneapolis, KC Ukeka from Triton, Duke Ekokota from Yabatech Nigeria, Dan Holowicki from Triton, Philip Brown from Washington DC, Natan Bekit from North York Toronto, and William Larsen from LA. Duke and Dan attended online from overseas (on screen in photo). Session 1 was led by Dr.Augustine Suh and Kevin Albright, attended by P.Abraham Kim and visited by P. Ron Ward and P. Mark Vucekovich.

Please pray for these key young emerging leaders to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as faithful and fruitful ministers of Christ.

* What is Emerging Leaders Cohort? (by Kevin Albright and Augustine Suh)

UBF prays to raise disciples of Jesus Christ among college students. Young leaders need to be raised to effectively continue this college work. The UBF Education Committee has developed a program, initiated by the General Director Abraham Kim, called the Emerging Leaders Cohort to identify and equip young emerging leaders in our ministry for more effective and grounded disciple-making. For this, we chose 18 topics to develop in these young leaders. It seemed best to divide these into 3 groups or courses of 6 sessions each. These sessions are 6 weeks apart following the school year or a summer 2-week intensive. Each session has a required Bible study to prepare and a 1-book reading assignment on the topic of about 200 pages. Each session takes place on an all-day Saturday. Bible study questions and reading assignments are submitted at the coursesites website every week prior to the Saturday sessions. Participants are encouraged to attend at Chicago UBF in person, but can be allowed to attend online if they are not from Chicago. Instructors/facilitators are seasoned leaders in UBF who have prepared the topics.

The 18 topics are as follows: Course 1 (Essentials A): 1. God and His Reign; 2. Grace, Sonship and Faith; 3. Worship; 4. Walking by the Spirit; 5. Word of God; 6. Prayer. Course 2 (Essentials B): 1. Calling; 2. Community of Christ; 3. Lordship of Christ; 4. Character Formation; 5. 1:1 Bible Study & Mentoring; 6. Outreach. Course 3 (Advanced): 1. Worldviews & Apologetics; 2. Disciple-Making; 3. UBF Mission, Vision & Strategy; 4. Independent Bible Study; 5. Marriage & Family; 6. Leadership.

The first course began in September 2016 with six committed participants: Spencer Luebben (Minneapolis), Greg Lewis (Toledo), Michael Mark (IIT), Matt Groters (Chicago), Timothy Lopez and Nonso Ukeka (Triton). The instructors/facilitators thus far have been Augustine Suh, Kevin Albright, Mark Vuckeovich and Teddy Hembekides. Instruction help will also come from other mature UBF Leaders such as Ron Ward, Mark Yang, and leaders from other UBF chapters. An occasional guest from outside UBF might be invited to help lead/facilitate a session.

* Watch Promo Video

https://player.vimeo.com/video/218939089