Background
"Marc Nikkel" was born to Mennonite parents in Reedley, California, and studied at the California State University School for the Visual Arts and at Fuller Theological Seminary before becoming an Anglican.
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Career
In 1981, Nikkel began teaching at Bishop Gwynne College in Mundri, Sudan. Nikkel was kidnapped by the Sudanese Liberation Army in July 1987 along with several other Americans. He was later released in northern Kenya.
From 1987-1988, he taught at Saint Paul"s United Theological College in Limuru, Kenya.
In Kenya, Marc Nikkel also co-founded Kakuma Refugee Camp with Bishop Nathanael Garang of Bor Diocese, South Sudan. There at Kakuma, Marc Nikkel named the young Dinka survivors "the Lost Boys." Marc Nikkel was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, and died in California in 2000.
Nikkel"s greatest legacy exists among the many lives he saved, taught and inspired.
