Steve Arnold
Steve Arnold is currently living in Kenya where he consults with schools in slums on how to keep their schools open and provide quality education for the over 3 million children in slums who cannot go to government schools. He has advised school administrators, trained teachers, and lectured at teacher training colleges in Africa, India, Nepal, and China. He taught at an inner city school in the US and helped implement educational reform grants there. As the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Elk Grove Unified School District, he designed and implemented programs and trained 2,000 teachers on how to use technology to improve the quality of education for their nearly 70,000 students in 65 schools. He holds Masters degrees in Counseling and Theology, and a Ph.D. in Religion.
Joanne Feldmeth
Joanne Feldmeth serves as the Director of International Programs for Royal Family KIDS (RFK), a non-profit organization that provides camps and mentoring clubs for at-risk children. RFK has over 200 camps and 50 mentoring clubs serving 7,000 American foster children annually and the international division includes camps in South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Chile, Australia and Wales. Joanne came to RFK in 2008 as the founding director of the Clubs & Mentors division and prior to that served for 14 years as the Executive Director of Child S.H.A.R.E. (Shelter Homes: A Rescue Effort), a community support agency for foster and adoptive families. Joanne regularly speaks and writes on child trauma recovery and holds a Master’s degree in Global Leadership with a concentration on Children At-Risk from Fuller Seminary’s School of Intercultural Studies in Pasadena, California.
Jeremy Schulz
Jeremy Schulz has been a church staff member since 2000. He has served on numerous committees as the Director of Music. He served as Administrative Council chairperson, and directed the media and communication efforts for two Capital Campaign fundraising programs. He is also an audio engineer, and AV production specialist. He has released original music (album and singles) and inspirational videos with national distribution through the United Methodist News Service.
Donna Wehrley
Donna Wehrley worked in the education system for 23 years as an occupational therapist. Her work consisted primarily of helping students to access education to the best of their abilities no matter what their disabilities might involve. She has also volunteered at Mosier School and the P:ear Program for homeless youth in Portland, Oregon, to help students gain access to education, art, recreation, and meals. Donna loves nature and being outside, gardening, hiking, windsurfing, kayaking, cross country skiing, and taking walks with friends and family. She strongly supports finding and implementing ways education can improve a child’s chances of succeeding in life and possibly moving out of poverty, whether in the USA, the slums of Kenya or any other place where children lack the access they deserve.