Our Staff

Alberita Johnson
Lay Minister
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Mary Cline Golbitz
Lay Minister
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Suellen has been an award-winning choral  music teacher in the public school system for more than twenty years, receiving many honors with her performing groups throughout her show choir career for Best Vocals, Best Choreography, Best Show Design, Best Costuming.  Suellen has produced, directed, staged, and choreographed hundreds of public performances, concerts, and musical productions since graduating from Ball State University in 1990 with a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Music Education and General Music Education.

Throughout her music career she has served as an adjudicator for the Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA), judging high school and middle school choral ensembles.  She has also served as a volunteer judge for the Miss America Scholarship program.  Most recently, she has served as a district judge for Florida Jr. Thespians.

Suellen holds a master’s degree in liberal studies from Indiana University along with a second master’s degree in educational leadership from Indiana University.  Suellen currently teaches full time for the Lee County School District, serving as Director of Dance for San Carlos Park Elementary Center for the Arts.

Over the years Suellen has been a fierce advocate for women’s and children’s issues.  While working for the non-profit child abuse agency, SCAN, Inc(Stop Child Abuse and Neglect) Suellen participated in a program to assist domestic violence victims by teaching a parenting class to women living in the YWCA transitional housing program.  Suellen also wrote the teen violence dating curriculum for SCAN to be used with middle and high school students before returning to teaching.  While with SCAN, Inc, Suellen traveled the state of Indiana and spoke to over 5000 adults and children on issues of child abuse and neglect providing safety classes for children, and teacher trainings on documenting and reporting abuse and neglect.   Suellen wrote and published a safety plan for women who have left domestic violence situations yet still have contact with the abuser for child custody exchanges and shared the resource with the YWCA advocates program.  In 2007 Suellen completed the training and was appointed to serve as a CASA(Court Appointed Special Advocate) Volunteer for the Allen County Superior Family Court division.

While teaching in Indiana, Suellen produced and sponsored an annual a school concert to benefit the Allen County CASA(Court Appointed Special Advocate) organization.  Together with her students,  families, and community partners they raised over $18,000 in an an eight year span of hosting the benefit concert.  Suellen’s students actively participated in service learning to assist children in need within their community, learning that service and citizenship go hand in hand.