Rebecca West

For almost 30 years, Rebecca has worked in various early childhood education and care settings, local schools and an international school in supervisory, teaching and head leadership roles. She has worked as a school chaplain in a local primary school and Prep-Year 12 special school, as well as had experience running her own tutoring business, where she supported local homeschooling families.

Rebecca is passionate about helping parents train up their children in the way they should go, so even when they are old they will not depart from it (Prov 22:6). She has a keen desire to help families put God, His ways and His word at the centre of learning through the use of the A.C.E. resources. In her role, she oversees the team in supporting, encouraging and coming alongside homeschooling parents, so they can disciple and grow their children to become people of character and influence, who serve and positively impact their local communities and beyond.

Sheree McManus

Sheree's 20 years of experience in the early childhood profession, leadership skills and pedagogical knowledge aids our families by providing advice and guidance so they can make informed decisions.

She believes in allowing the children to learn and grow at their own pace within a supportive environment with guidelines.  She knows that good quality education can have a positive impact on a child's life. She believes that all children have a desire to learn, and our role as educators, (parents being their first and most important educators), is to pique their curiosity and provide them with experiences and opportunities to develop to their full potential. She has a passion for educating the next generation and is grateful to be able to do so with a resource that aligns with her ideals as a Christian.

She believes that knowledge alone, does not guarantee success, other intangible attributes, such as resilience, persistence, positive attitude and patience are also important. The A.C.E resource provides for this. She looks forward to using her educational research and knowledge to support families provide a biblical worldview educational resource to their children.

Sheree Ralph

Sheree brings to the team her experience as a former A.C.E. student, who continued onto tertiary studies and into the education profession as a teacher. She taught for several years at Christian private schools in Sydney, NSW, before moving into the incredible and fulfilling role as a mother.  

Kathryn Smith

Kathryn brings her accounting background to process the Accelerate accounts receivable.

Kathryn comes from an accounting background and has experience in a variety of finance and administration roles. She loves to provide financial and administrative support to help ensure team success, and she has been doing this in both paid and volunteer roles for over 20 years.

Kathryn is married with three teenage children and has a strong desire to pass on her Christian faith to the next generation. Kathryn is excited to be able to use her skills in a Christian education setting, where she can contribute to helping other families instill this faith into their children as well.

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Grace Green

Grace brings her experience as a home schooling mother to support and guide families (focusing on New Zealand) along on their home schooling journey.

Grace has been married to Ian since 1991 and they live in Napier, NZ. They have four adult children, two lovely daughters-in-law, and two sweet granddaughters.

Originally trained as a primary school teacher, Grace taught in Christian schools before homeschooling her own children. Homeschooling was a wonderful 20 years of her life!
She believes strongly in a good foundation of literacy and numeracy being the foundation for other learning. That foundation gives children what they need to study more and more independently as they mature.

During those homeschooling years she found the support of others invaluable and that is what has drawn her to join the Accelerate team. She is keen to provide support to families in their homeschooling journey.  It's a privilege to come alongside parents as they take on this task with its many challenges and joys.

Vanessa Nock

Vanessa shares her knowledge of A.C.E as a Supervisor in a school setting and as a home schooling mother to supporting New Zealand families from ​enquiry to enrolment to applying for MOE exemption to beginning their home schooling journey.

For over 8 years, Vanessa has been faithfully homeschooling her 3 children using the A.C.E. resources.  She and her husband Matt believe that when God calls you to it, He will see you through it.

Maria Juwita

Maria brings her knowledge as a teacher and home schooling mother to aid all our families but especially those in Indonesia.

Maria and her family live in Jakarta, Indonesia. She and her husband, Charles, strongly believe that a Christian education, with a strong Biblical foundation is irreplaceable. Maria’s background as a teacher and a principal within Christian schools has aided her to implement the A.C.E. resource to educate her their three children at
home.

Maria hopes to be able to share her knowledge and experience as both an educational professional and a home schooling mother to support parents in Indonesia (and the rest of the South Pacific) to feel confident to home school their children. The A.C.E. PACEs are a great resource in which she believes is the foundation for Christian families to provide a high quality education infused with Christian values within the home.

Erinee Daurewa

Erinee brings her experience as a A.C.E. graduate and home schooling mother to support our families on their home schooling journey.

Bula Vinaka, my name Erinee Daurewa, just celebrated my first year of marriage and I reside in Lautoka, Fiji. My work background is in Early Childhood Education.

My journey with A.C.E began with ABCs with Ace and Christi till year 13 NZ with Christian Outreach College. I participated in student convention regionally and in the South Pacific.  I was able to do student monitoring, the year before I graduated high school, in China and Hong Kong which I benefited from especially before attending university.

Having a background in A.C.E has contributed to my academic, social, and spiritual growth and I would encourage any family interested that it is worth the investment. Having worked with the community mobile service of the ECE school I was in, I saw first-hand how important a good foundation is to a child’s academic journey.