Meet Our Teachers!

Abukloi is sending two U.S. teachers to Rumbek to organize and teach  9th grade this September through December, officially opening the Abukloi School.  While there, they hope to hire two local teachers to take over teaching responsibilities in January.  South Sudan has the lowest literacy rate in the world and has fought long and hard sacrificing many lives to be a free independent nation.  Please pray for Abukloi and  become a financial partner with us. If we can find 100 partners willing to give $25 a month we can survive.  Join us today.

REV. DR. MARGARET KUTZ

Rev. Dr. Margaret Kutz (or “Dr. Mom” as the Lost Boys call her) graduated with a Bachelors degree in education and taught in the public school for several years before going to seminary.  During her nearly 40 years in ordained ministry, she taught children, youth and adults in many settings, adapting her style to accommodate the students’ needs .  While serving a church in the Washington D.C. area she initiated and directed a school for ESL (English as Second Language) to help adults learn English.  Many people consider her a gifted teacher, a natural.  She is excited and humbled to be part of the Abukloi School.

BEVERLY NELAN

Bev Nelan has earned a B.S. in Special  Education, a M.A. in Education, plus an additional 35 hours of graduate work in Administration and Management, a Reading specialist Certification and a Course of Study Certificate in Theology from  Duke University.  Her 48 years of experience have taken her to many  U.S. States and other countries in the fields of Education, training soldiers with the Department of Defense and as local pastor for the United Methodist Church.  She has served as an elementary  and middle school  teacher; special education teacher with the Learning Disabled and emotionally disturbed, English as a Second Language teacher and a reading specialist. She has been the Reading Director for Eighth Army, Korea; Deputy Director of Training for Combat Service Support, Army; Principal of Seoul International School, Korea; and  pastor of three local churches in Virginia.  Bev believes she has been called by God to begin a secondary school in Rumbek, South Sudan. “After hearing Angelo Maker’s story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, I felt the call to go to South Sudan and with God leading the way to make a difference in Rumbek.”