User:Thorkuon

Thor Simon Kuon Yuot; doctor of philosophy in theology, is the South Sudanese citizen,born in Pagaak Payam at Maiwut County, Simon left Maiwut and went to Khartoum in January, 1986 to continue his primary education at Evangelical Missionary School-Khartoum Center. In the year 1989 Simon Thor enrolled at Imatong Senior Secondary School Omdurman at Khartoum until grade 12th in 1992, Thor left Khartoum and return to Maiwut and he went directly to Dimma refugees Camp Ethiopia in Oct. 1992 where  he required his ordination as the pastor for South Sudanese congregation on 27 July, 1995. Rev. Simon lived in Ethiopia for ten years where he served the Lord's flock as the pastor. Simon Thor moved from Ethiopia to Kenya in order to find a settlement for His refugee life. However, he spent only five months in Kenya. Then, he went back to Khartoum during the peace negotiation between the SPLA and the government of the Sudan. When Simon arrived at Khrotum he found his cousin Dak Duop Bichiok serving the government as the governor of the Upper Nile State. Hon. Governor Dak gave him some money to prepare his way to Egypt in Sept. 2003. Thor stayed in Egypt for two years and he was also attending Victory Bible Institute at Maadi- Cairo. In 2005 Simon and his family got an opportunity through UNHCR. They went to Canada in November 2005, Simon immediately start his upgrading classes at Bow Valley College at Calgary and graduated from high School on June 6 2008. Simon continue with his vision of education to seek further education to pursue his theological career. He went to Fort McMurray in Cananda to find a job, but fortunately, Thor find a good man of God Dr. Niel, a founder and President of "Genesis Institute of Theology" at Fort McMurray. On Sept, 8th, Simon enrolled into the program of combine Bachelor and Master degrees. He studied these courses seriously in form of acceleration. These courses were programmed to be done in three years. But He finished all of them in one and half year from Sept 2008 t0 Jan 2010. Next, Simon was allowed to began his Doctorate courses within January and completed all the courses with doctoral thesis in December 20, 2010 and graduated with Philosophy Doctorate(PhD)in Theology on 1th, January 2011.