This is a ZOOM seminar to encourage and train youth workers in international contexts. There will be various discussions, including a question and answer session.

Please RSVP to diane.robson@holytrinity.be  and indicate whether you will be attending. A link will be sent to you.

The session will be led by Barbara Noordanus and Annette Ficker.


Barbara Noordanus planted a youth church in New Zealand before coming to Eindhoven in the southern Netherlands where she discovered that youth work in the International context is a bit different! She is now Chaplain in Maastricht and Assistant Chaplain in Eindhoven and has developed a growing youth ministry in Eindhoven through the almost 18 years she has been there.Though she has worked with groups as small as 3-4 youth the current youth ministry at Trinity Eindhoven has more than 40 teens in 2 groups with two youth leadership teams.

Annette Ficker is married and now lives in 's Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. She studied mathematics and now works as an algorithm expert for Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes company. In 2013 she started as a youth leader at what now is called Lifestream Europe: a Christian summer festival for English speaking Internationals of all ages, with about 40-50 11-18 year olds involved. After that summer she immediately joined the youth team of her local church Trinity Eindhoven. In 2014 she again joined the youth team at Lifestream Europe, but now as the team leader and has remained the team leader from then on. She remained involved at youth work in her local church including when she moved and joined other churches; first at Vineyard Brussels and now Rafaël Den Bosch.