Jeff Seabrooke, School Director

Jeff has been with NHYM for 22 years. He has served at Escuela Caribe as a housefather, groupleader and as a counselor, and at New Horizons Academy and Missanabie Woods Academy as Program Director from 1993-2000. Jeff also spent three summers at Missanabie Woods Academy as a counselor/department head.

Jeff's proudest educational accomplishment was his associate degree in Child and Youth Care Work (1979) from Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada. He has gone on to obtain both a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Social Work, and is currently halfway through his Doctorate in General Psychology (online).

Jeff was married in 1992 to another New Horizons staff, Annie, who has been with New Horizons since 1987. They have two children. Annie is a counselor at Escuela Caribe. Jeff and Anne were both were raised in large families (19 siblings between the two of them) and this has helped them enjoy and deal with life in a boarding school environment.

One of Jeff's favorite scriptures is Matthew 22: 35-40, "...Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Dan Anderson, Assistant Director

Dan joined Escuela Caribe in the fall of 2001 as a teacher and later moved into the counseling department. In the fall of 2002, Dan and his wife Katie moved into TKB house where they spent two years working as House-parents in a girls house. As their time in the house came to a close they felt God calling them to continue serving with New Horizons.

After a summer serving at MWA, the summer program in Canada, they moved back to the Dominican Republic and in January 2005 Dan took the Home-life Department Head position. In 2007 he stepped into the role of Assistant Director. Dan and Katie are enjoying their newfound job as parents of their two-year-old daughter Lucy, and look forward to the arrival of their second child in April, 2007.

Jon Sawyer, Homelife Department Head

Jon Sawyer came to Escuela Caribe in the fall of 2005 with his wife, Rachel, and two small children Allie and Tate. Two months after arriving, he and Rachel welcomed their third child, Gracie, into the Dominican Republic at a local clinic in Jarabacoa. Moving to a third world country with a pregnant wife and two toddlers to work with struggling teenagers was what Jon believes an act of obedience. Jon would say that a prevailing theme in his life revolves around the Lord’s grace for those who love and follow him, and this is the mindset he operates from when dealing with students and staff.

Jon began his career at Escuela Caribe as a subject teacher of Biology, Literature, Health and Economics, and greatly enjoyed the daily interaction with the students this position provided. In December 2006, Jon became the Director of Homelife, an area he has a great deal of passion for and previous experience. Prior to joining the staff of Escuela Caribe, Jon worked as the manager of a small business in Dallas, Texas, which reaffirmed for him that his heart was not as a businessman, but as a missionary for the Lord. Jon had previously spent ten years at a residential youth home for struggling teenagers in East Texas, where he wore a variety of different hats from maintenance man to program director to the director of residential living. The experiences he gained in this environment seasoned and prepared him for his current role in the homelife department. Jon has a great deal of admiration for those he works with and for, and believes that those around him in this community will sharpen him as he hopefully does the same for them. Proverbs 27:17 "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."