Pierre & Gigi Houssney
Executive Director (Pierre), HR Facilitator (Gigi)
Beirut, Lebanon
Email: pierre@horizonsinternational.org, gigi@horizonsinternational.org
As Executive Director, Pierre leads a diverse team who run ministry centers throughout Lebanon and surrounding countries, the School of Hope, and the Middle East Center for World Missions (MEC) in Beirut, Lebanon.
He played a lead role in the development of the Engaging Islam and Cubs to Lions training curricula, and co-edited Engaging Islam (Georges Houssney, Treeline Publishing, Boulder, CO, 2010). Pierre has traveled to over 30 countries, and his field experience in the Middle East began when he spent summers doing outreach in Lebanon as a teenager and spent a gap year during university doing music ministry in Beirut.
Pierre holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado, and is fluent in English and Arabic. He has been in full-time ministry with Horizons since 2006, and has been an active member of Horizons’ teaching staff and curriculum development team since 2002.