About us - Trustees
The Executive Committee:
This team of trustees has the twin roles of setting direction and policy for the organisation. Its members are elected once every three years at the triennial Council Meeting. The current team was appointed in September 2007.
Henry Curry ll
Captain Curry was born in the beautiful island of Cat, Bahamas in 1943. He was educated at the St. Barnabas Day School, Western Junior and Senior Schools before pursuing extensive tertiary education at the Ministry of Education Evening Institute and The College of The Bahamas.
He joined the Lad’s Brigade at the age of 11 and in 1970 was inducted as the Captain of the 23rd Bahamas, a position he still holds today. He is the Past President of The Bahamas Council of BB and the current Chairman of the Western Caribbean Regional Fellowship. He is the Past Grand master of the Independent United Order of Mechanics Western Hemisphere Incorporated.
Captain Curry is presently employed at The Simpson Penn Centre for Boys, which is a correctional institution for young men. He is a devout member of St. Barnabas Anglican Church, New Providence where he has held and continues to hold numerous leadership positions.
He is married to Lorraine they are the proud parents of Henry III (deceased), Henchell, Henrick, Henrington, Henrea and Henderson. They are also grandparents to a beautiful granddaughter, Aaliya. Captain Curry would one day like to change this title and be known as Father Curry, as his ultimate goal is to one day serve his church with special emphasis on Youth Ministry.
Morten Skrubbeltrang
Morten hails from Denmark where he has a Bachelor in Theology. At present he is studying for his Masters in Theology which will be completed in 2008.
Previously he was employed as the International Secretary of FDF Denmark where amongst other things he was responsible for the last two large international projects in FDF – one in the Philippines and also the Made in India programme. He has served as Chairman for the FDF International Committee.
Currently he is living in India having just married in Tamil Nadu. He is undertaking field studies concerning the understanding of mission in the Arcot Lutheran Church. From mid 2008 he will be based back in Denmark.
The GF Council elected Morten as Chairman of the Executive Committee.
Matthew Smith
Matthew is a barrister with a specialism in charity law, although his practice includes fraud, insolvency and trusts-based litigation.
He has been a member of the Boys’ Brigade in the United Kingdom (BB UK) since he was a young boy and is now an Officer in the 5th London company.
He has been privileged to meet a number of the Fellowship’s colleagues around the world since he was appointed Treasurer of Global Fellowship in 2004 and looks forward to continuing to work with them over the coming 3 years.
Edward Smithson
Ed has been a BB UK member since he was 6, so when he moved away to university it was a natural progression to continue his service through the international youth work projects which operate within BB UK. He became Chairman of the BB UK International Forum and oversaw the delivery of several peer education projects within BB UK - the largest of which focused on educating young people on the experiences of disadvantaged youth in Brazil, and challenging BB UK children to respond.
He has been involved in the European Fellowship as a member of the planning team for the flagship Easter Course. Since moving to London to work as a statistician, he has become a Company Captain (local group leader).
He says "This regular contact with children and young people informs and inspires my other current activities as Chair of the steering group for BB UK's project with BB Cameroon, national representative to EF and now trustee of Global Fellowship. I pray for God's will be to be done through GF over the next three years."
Rev Canon Patrick Tugume
Patrick is from Kampala, Uganda and is aged 55 years. He is also 6'5'' tall. By profession he is an Anglican clergyman employed by the Anglican Church of Uganda Provincial Secretariat.
He grew up as a member of 7th Kigezi Co. Boys Brigade Uganda in his youth and was a drummer there. He worked as an overseer for Boys' and Girls' Brigade in the diocese of North Kigezi for over 10 years and when he came to Kampala was elected onto the National Council of Boys' and Girls' Brigade Uganda. Currently he also serves as Chairman of the East African Regional Fellowship which includes BB/BGB Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
He says "I am happy to be joining you in serving with you in the ministry with the youth worldwide."
Chief Executive: Tim Pratt
Tim was born in Northern Ireland but was smuggled to New Zealand by his defecting parents in 1973. He trained as a minister of the Baptist church there and has specialised in ministry to young people. Apart from pastoral ministry in the local church he has also served as a denominational youth consultant to NZ Baptist churches.
In 1997 he was appointed as the Director of Boys’ Brigade in New Zealand where his chief task was that of reversing a 36 year trend of decline in its membership. This involved a significant repositioning of the organisation along with fresh branding under the name of ICONZ. Christian fathers of boys have been attracted by the new image and have provided leadership which is once again seeing BB (under the name of ICONZ) steadily growing ‘down under’. In 2004 Tim started in a part time capacity with Global Fellowship parallel to his work with Brigade in NZ. Before long the concerns of GF demanded a more concentrated effort and so his role in BBNZ was relinquished.
His motivation is to see member organisations working together to share the person and character of Christ with children and young people. He believes this can currently be best achieved through the development of an organisational mentoring programme designed to enhance the capabilities of developing world organisations. The emphasis is to achieve holistic self sufficiency especially through the development of micro enterprise.
