UTF Alumni Event

I (Marc) have been spending a large part of my summer planning and organizing the school’s first “Alumni Event.” We are actually developing a full Alumni Program and this event was the “kick-off” to implement this program. Our objective for this event was to be a social gathering for all past graduates, over the last 10 years, to get together and re-connect. The second objective was to communicate to the graduates what an “Alumni” is and what an “Alumni Program” does. I feel both were accomplished.

The weekend was a huge success!

We had 69 people show up for the event – which is great as we were hopping for 60 to attend, but prepared for 70. We had a great planning team consisting of SEND missionaries and UTF staff (Bulgarians). The team did a great job coming together and owning their pieces of the event. It was a great display of teamwork as we all had out part in making this even successful.

The former graduates really enjoyed seeing one another again. Many of them personally thanked me for organizing the event as they really enjoyed it – many people on the planning team received many of the same comments. Besides the social element – I really wanted the “Alumni Program” to be communicated clearly. Given my lack of the Bulgarian language – this was hard for me to judge – but many said they were excited to participate in something like this. Now we just need to use the momentum of this event into implementing the actual Alumni Program.

Thank you for your support – it really was a great success!