2010 Winter/Spring REALS

R E A L SATTENTION!

CALENDAR CHANGES1. All-Years Reunion moved from June 19 to August 13. 2. August 13 OPEN HOUSE Celebration for Bob and Thera Barber.3. August 13 ANNUAL ALUM-NI ADVISORY and ALUMNI BOARD Meeting. 4. August 13 Class of 1956-57 and Class of 1970 Reunions.

(Note: All the August 13th events will be held at the High School. Please see the Calendar on Page 3 for further details and events.)

In ThIs EdITIon:• ACSI ACCredItAtIon

• newS from AlumnI

• SeuSSICAl the muSICAl

• CongrAtulAtIonS to pCS outStAndIng Stu-dEnTs

• AlumnI AppreCIAtIon

• newS from our mIS-SIonArIeS

R e a c h - o u t , e n c o u R a g e , a f f i R m , L o v e , S u p p o R t

WinteR/SpRing 2010 a pubLication of poRtLand chRiStian aLumni aSSociation & pc SchooLS

ALUMNI APPRECIATION WEEK: A SUCCESS Classes 2002-2003: Winners of the Annual Alumni Basketball Tournament

(See article on page 20 of this issue)

ROYAL BASKETBALL MEN AND WOMEN TAKE STATE


PORTLAND CHRISTIAN CHOIR AND ENSEMBLE TAKE GOLD IN ANNAHEIM


A NOTE TO OUR READERSThe Alumni Board is grateful for the many readers who faithfully give to keep this publication alive. Because the REALS is 100% funded by gifts from faithful donors, and the amount needed to produce 4 issues came up short for 2009-2010, the winter issue is combined with the spring edition. The Board voted to produce 3 issues per year: April, August and December.

MISSION STATEMENT

It is the mission of Portland Christian Schools to educate students in the truthof God’s word in every area of instruction and activity to that their lives may be

transformed by the renewing of their minds.

VISION

Portland Christian Schools will become one of the Northwest’s leading Christian Schools providing itsstudents with a thriving, spiritually dynamic Christian education with the goal of students passing the

baton of godly leadership to the next generation.

In the process, Portland Christian Schools will demonstrate financial integrity, striving to become debt free,while establishing endowments for student aid, faculty compensation, and expansion of facilities.

CORE VALUES

All Board, Administration, Faculty and Staff (including coaches) must be able to demonstrate that theyunderstand and model a biblical world and life view and are committed to the spiritual, academic, physical,

emotional and social development of each student.

Students will be taught to develop a biblical world and life view and challenged to live according to biblical standards.

Critical thinking skills will be taught so that students will have the tools to evaluate their current culture andclimate in light of God’s word.

Each student shall be encouraged to love the Lord their God with their whole heart and mind to the end thateach one be compelled to reach out in love to others

both at home and around the world.

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Check the School web site at www.pcschools.org for all school-wide information including Alumni events information and dates.

May24. Alumni Board Meeting 6:00 pm27. Booster Club Awards Night 7:00 pm. Speaker, Dave Johnson, AD Corban College and Olympian Decathlon Bronze Medalist, Barcelona, Spain.

June 4. Senior-Parent Night 7:00pm 5. HS Graduation, New Beginnings Church 1:00 pm.17. Alumni Sponsored PCS Faculty and Staff Ap-preciation Dinner 5:30 pm, Mt. Hood RV Village. 19. PLEASE NOTE: the Annual All-Years BBQ has been moved to August 13th at the High School 25. Class of 1990 20 Year Reunion: Dinner26. Class of 1990 20-Year Reunion: Family Day26. Class of 1980 30-Year Reunion: Postponed.28. Alumni Board Meeting 6:00 pm

July 9. Class of 2000 10 Year-Reunion TBA 10. Class of 2000 10 Year-Reunion TBA 26. Alumni Board Meeting 6pm

August 13. Annual Alumni Board and Alumni Advisory Committee Meeting 2:00-3:30 pm in HS Library 13. Class of 1970 30-Year Reunion 13. Classes 1956-1957 Reunion 13. ALL-YEARS REUNION and BBQ, 4:00 to 8:00 pm at the High School. 14. Class of 1970 30-Year Reunion Dinner30. Alumni Board Meeting 6:00 pm

September 7. School Begins 18. Class of 1960 50 Year-Reunion 27. Alumni Board Meeting 6pm

October 25. Alumni Board Meeting 6:00pm

November 5. 2010 HOMECOMING Football Game and Se-nior Night. PCH Royals vs. Nestucca. Gates open at 6:15 pm. Admission free to all PCS Alumni and their immediate family. 2010-2011 Season’s Sports Pass given out in the cafeteria. Passes are also available earlier by contacting Jeanne Lampi. 22. Alumni Board Meeting and Annual Christ-mas Card Writing 6:00pm

December 12. Annual Alumni Board Christmas Dinner

Looking ahead...January 3-8, 2011: Alumni Appreciation WeekJanuary 8: Alumni Tournament

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I love the hymn, “Great is thy Faithfulness,” prob-

ably in part because Nancy Parker had the PC Choir sing it at every perfor-mance. The words ring as true today as they did when Thomas O. Chisolm wrote the poem in 1923. We worship and serve an unchanging and unfail-ingly compassionate God. I, for one, rejoice in those two attributes. I think that the tag line of the chorus,

“…All I hath needed Thy hand hath provided,” speaks the most in my life. I am sure that if you look back in your life, you can see God’s hand of provision. When I was growing up, my father was actively involved in the pro-life community. He was incarcerated several times during those years, leaving my Mom to care for five kids and manage a business. Those were some scary times. We didn’t know how we were going to pay the bills and buy groceries, much less pay tuition at PC. When I was in 3rd grade, around Easter time, Jackie Clay (PCES 3rd grade teacher) told me that instead of going to recess one day we were going to go shopping. She took me to the Al-bertsons near the Market street campus and we bought groceries and some Easter candy for my family. She told me that the teachers from the Elementary school were proud of the stance that my father had taken against abortion, and they wanted to make sure that my family had a good Easter, even though my father was going to be in jail. What a beautiful example of God’s Provision. I remember to this day those teachers’ generosity, and would encourage each and every one of you to remember that through every trial, God will always provide for His followers.

Matthew 6:31 and 33: “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’’ “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

–Daniel A. Burnett, 1999Alumni Association. President

meSSAge from the preSIdent

I had the privilege of

being on the elementary campus dur-ing Teacher Appreciation Week. It never ceases to amaze me the great value of our teachers.

Although teachers come and go, my first grade teacher still remains. For over 37 years, Jackie Clay has la-bored faithfully in her service to the school. Today, she is a third grade teacher. In 1970-71, however, she was my first grade teacher; I was 6 and she 21 years of age. I value and appreciate this woman for more reasons than I can list. My most fa-vorite attribute is her faithfulness to pray for her students. She disclosed a story to me about how concerned my mother had been with something

in my first grade experience and Jackie shared with me the prayer she and my mom had prayed. I have been forever touched by the story of two women who are invested in me and have prayed for my future.

That’s what teachers do at PCS. They deeply care and invest in stu-dents. Mrs. Clay has raised her fam-ily, added four grandchildren (one more on the way) and experienced hardships while living a life of abso-lute faithfulness and integrity before the Lord. She has touched over 600 little student’s lives and she deeply cares about each one. Her passion for learning, praying and caring, are the driving forces in her life. Mrs. Clay shared stories of past students seeking her out and sharing their life experiences. One of her students authored a children’s book which he sent to her to read to her class. What a delight to share a nugget from the past with current students,

our future leaders.

I ask all Alumni, what teacher do you remember making a difference in your life? I’m sure each of you has a story of being influenced or transformed by a favorite teacher at PCS. It would be our delight to reconnect you with that teacher so you might be able to share your story with us.

I am so grateful for each and every teacher at PCS who has invested so much in my life. As teachers in the past, our teachers, today spend countless hours in lesson planning, teaching, professional growth and in prayer for their students. I rejoice in the Lord for Portland Christian’s faithful teachers and all the staff who continue to give so much of themselves to this school.

–Annette Ayers Johnson, 1982Director of Development

from the deSK of the dIreCtor of deVelopment

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(Just as the REALS was at comple-tion these late breaking events were announced)

On Monday, May 3rd, our el-ementary school principal an-

nounced his resignation, effective June 16th. We are grateful for the leadership provided by Rob this past year, (a very critical year for our school), and ask that each one be in prayer for him as he transitions into a new position.

I am well pleased to announce the appointment of Rhonda Rogers, our Early Education Director as the new principal of our EE through grade 6 program. Over and over again, as head of the preschool program at PCS, Rhonda has demonstrated the qualities we desire in a school administrator. She has a deep love for the Lord Jesus Christ, she loves our great school with its families, children and staff, she is a leader who can motivate, unite and inspire

each one of us, and she holds the appropriate certifications required for a school administrator. Rhonda will work together with Mr. Shadle until June 16th when she officially takes on her new office.

Thank you for your prayers for Portland Christian Schools during these last few years of transitions at all our campuses. It is now time to move forward as we grow together in the work of the Lord.

SuperIntendent mAKeS flASh AnnounCement

REALS Contributors:Editor: Jeanne Lampi

Design: Apostrophe Design

Edition:Scene: Seven, Take: One

ALUMNI Officers and Board• President: Daniel Burnett ‘99• Vice President: Tara Nasmythe-Downing ‘89• Secretary: Heidi Logan Hval ‘87• Treasurer/Historian: Jeanne Lampi• Database Manager: Tim Downing ‘89

• Faculty Liaison: Daniel Burnett ‘99• Parent/Booster Club Liaison: Alan Svehaug• ISP Liaison: Marly Do• Director of Development: Annette Ayers Johnson ‘82• Director of Alumni Rela-tions: Jeanne Lampi • Director of Community Relations: Bill Buck

• Board Members at Large: Mike and Karon Stoller Trommlitz ‘57 Donna Mckinney Root ‘68 Peter Busby ‘81 Ashley Fenison Ainley ‘03 Sarah Walkky ‘05 Donna Bowling ‘68 David Nuttelman ‘09

On Good Friday

I attended “Life Without Limbs”, a breakfast at the Oregon Convention Center. The speaker, who had been born without

arms or legs, had a tremendous tes-timony of all God was doing through and in his life.

We have many parts of the body of Christ streaming through our school this year, a National Merit Finalist, 2 state championship basketball teams, the emergence of Young Life on our campus, Grandparents Day, a Bible world view in our “DNA” an accreditation process, EE-12 grades, an outstanding ISP program, a dy-namic leader in our superintendent, our reaching out to other schools in our Northwest League, an outstand-ing choir/band and more.

In one sense, none of us have “full limbs” by ourselves. God created us

to live in community, not as iso-lated creatures. At the same time, God created us to come to Him in silence…to shut out the noise of the world and listen to His Words of wisdom.

The 63 year heritage of Portland Christian Schools is powerful….and humbling. It is my prayer that we will continue to educate students in the Truth of God’s Word in every area of learning and activity.

–Bill BuckDirector of Community Relations

we gIVe thAnKS wIth A grAteful heArtAs has been reported elsewhere in this issue of the REALS, there have been a number of cuts made to the

2009-2010 budget; cuts necessitated by the current economic crisis. One of the cuts was all funding for the magazine as well as other cuts in the Alumni budget. We are grateful to the Board of Trustees for their past

support and fully understand the necessity of this year’s measures. To continue publication of the REALS, it is necessary that the Alumni Association Board generate approximately $24,000 this fiscal year. We are grateful to all who give, no matter what the size of the gift. Please know the Association acts carefully as stewards of

these gifts. Each gift is gratefully received and the Alumni Designated Fund monitored monthly by the Alumni Board. In this spirit of Thanksgiving we gratefully acknowledge gifts from the following:

• Kimberly Bennett ‘89ªJohn Birkhofer

• Bonnie Boatman ‘59ª Bill Buck

ª Randy Dagelª Rick Davis ‘88

ª Ryan Dewey ‘03ª Lyle Dick ‘61

ª Mr. and Mrs. David Ernst

ª Mr. and Mrs. Brad Hillª Tim Joslen

ª Mr. and Mrs. David Lehhartª Nathan Luke ‘02

ª Mr. and Mrs. David Madoreª Mr. and Mrs. David Manus

ª Dr. and Mrs. Eric Messingerª Anna Quarum ‘87ª Rhoda Reid ‘60

• Grace Rogers ‘71• Trent Rosenbloom ‘92

• Ed Ryan ‘00• Philip Smith

• Evogene Stephens ‘54• Ron and Marilyn Webb ‘60

• Christy Wilner ‘69• Linda Wood ‘54

• Larry Zimmerman


There are rare mo-

ments in each of our lives when the Lord brings alongside us individuals who dramati-cally touch and change our lives.

These individuals are not motivated by money, fame or self interest…they simply want to live Christ. Jeanne Lampi is just such a person.

She is one of the most remarkable, hardworking, Christ-like women I’ve ever met. We all know Jeanne’s love for Portland Christian Schools by the countless hours she has given to managing the Alumni Associa-tion, but many of you are not aware of the incredible resource she has been to me and our board of trust-ees at PCS this past year. We have just completed 10 months of intense planning and preparation to become accredited by the ACSI in our early childhood education, elementary, and secondary programs. Jeanne headed up that task and we passed

with flying colors. She is currently working with the board, PCS fac-ulty, and administration in aligning procedures with our Board Policies Manual. These tasks are crucial for the future of our school. In addi-tion, Jeanne serves as an advisor to me and to many others at PC. Her kindness and love for everyone is an inspiration to all who know her. I want to thank you Jeanne, for being my coach, my mentor, my friend, my counselor, and my champion.

–Bill Gibbons Superintendent of PCS

my CoACh, my mentor, my frIend, my CounSelor, my ChAmpIon

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Portland Christian Schools, Grades 7-12, first achieved full

accreditation with the Association of Christian Schools, International (ACSI) in 1986. In 1993, Portland Christian was the first secondary school in the Northwest to work toward, and receive dual accredita-tion status with ACSI and NASC (Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, later to become NAAS in 2004). In 2003, the junior/senior high school received the first ac-credited status in the Northwest using the Accreditation by School Progress (ASP) Protocol and was the second school in the entire nation to be recognized in this category. This school year, history has again

been made at Portland Christian Schools as we worked together toward dual accreditation: NAAS in conjunction with ACSI. For the first time, Portland Christian Schools will be accredited as one Institu-tion, EE-12. The new instrument designed by ACSI, called REACH, required us to all work together on ten non-negotiable Standards which address everything from school-wide curriculum, to school-wide crisis, health and safety plans, to school-wide assessments, to school-wide staffing, etc. Please note that the operative word here is school-wide.

Perhaps the most important devel-opment as a result of the process was the revisiting in a new and fresh way, of the School’s Mission Statement and evaluating how each employee (stakeholder) in the school saw their own ministry role in light of one single school-wide mission. A Vision Statement was adopted by the Board of Trustees who shall be the keeper of that Vision and Core Values were written with thoughtful and prayer-ful input from all stakeholders.

These statements are now all to-gether in one document as seen on page 2. The document was printed up, enlarged and all stood back and said, “This is good. This is what God wants for Portland Christian Schools.” While these statements are found in one way or another in our Statements of Faith, Philoso-phy, Purpose, and Course Objec-tives, this is the first time we have articulated them in this way and in one place. One TEAM member com-mented, “PCS has said it well. This is the CORE of who you are and from these Core Values emanate your moral values, your character qualities, your teaching, your Board Policies AND ALL that is done at Portland Christian Schools.”

While PCS was judged to be in com-pliance with all 10 Standards, there are a number of things the school must address over the next six years before our next accreditation visit. For now, we are humbly enjoying some, “Thank you, Jesus, moments.”

BoArd, AdmInIStrAtIon, fACulty And StAff pull together to “pull off” A hIStory-mAKIng eVent:

ACSI/nAAS ACCredItAtIon, grAdeS ee-12

Andrew Svehaug ‘04 and Dr. Lori Marvel ‘78 Salierno were

guest presenters at the annual Los Angeles ACSI Teachers Conven-tion in November of 2009. Andrew, Founder and Director of the Ameri-can Chess Institute spoke on the use of chess in building life skills and helping students learn faster and better. One of Andrew’s teams recently placed 5th in the United States Chess Federation National Championships held in Minneapolis.

Dr. Salierno, Founder and CEO of

Celebrate Life International, spoke about the work T1L1 (Teach 1 to Lead 1) Teams were doing in schools in the LA and other areas, and the ministry opportunities available for students in Christian Schools. Recently CLI produced a documen-tary called, “Voices for the Children” which began local showings in April. All episodes of the documentary will eventually be shown throughout the United States on local, national and Public Broadcasting Television. Broadcast schedules for all areas can be found on www.CelebtateLife.org.

portlAnd ChrIStIAn AlumnI repeAt gueSt SpeAKerS At ACSI ConferenCe In loS AngeleS

nAtIonAl honor SoCIety InduCtS 2010-2011 memBerS

On May

3, 2010, twenty-five members were inducted

into the The Mark Fakkema Chapter of the National Honor Society. David Madore, Founder and CEO of US Digital in Vancouver, WA, was the keynote speaker. David and wife, Donna are parents of three PCH graduates: Michele, ‘97, Leanne

‘01 and Rachel ‘05. Mr. Madore encouraged the

students to make good choices in life, with friends, church, careers and staying on track in school. He also emphasized the biblical truths of the four tenants of the National Honor Society: Scholarship, Service, Leadership and Character.

NHS sponsored several blood drives this school year as part of their commitment to Service, a requirement for chapters and indi-vidual NHS members.


The ACSI Accreditation Team, made up of 9 members under

the direction of retired Northwest Director, Roger Norrie, arrived at the Ramada Inn on Sunday, April 18. Following a banquet with the TEAM and PCS administrators, the group traveled to the Elementary School to be toured through the buildings by the PCS Board of Trustees.

DAY 1On Monday, April, 19th, the TEAM arrived early at the PCES campus to meet with the faculty and staff

before beginning their work of in-terviews, observing classrooms and getting down to studying the sup-porting data in the TEAM room. On Monday evening, the TEAM mem-bers held a dinner metting with the Board of Trustees. They all returned to PCES for the monthly Board meeting.

DAY 2Tuesday morning, April 20th, the TEAM met the high school faculty and staff for a light breakfast in the library. Following the time together, the TEAM got down to business visiting the HS faculty and staff and writing reports on their observa-tions. That evening, TEAM members sequestered themselves in the TEAM room at PCES and worked will into the evening comparing notes from observations and interviews.

DAY 3Wednesday morning, April 21st, the

TEAM split into two groups; both attending respective chapels at the two campuses, making final obser-vations and interviews and return-ing to the TEAM room to assemble their final report. At 3:30pm sharp, over 70 faculty and staff gathered in the PCES gym to hear the reading of the major recommendations and commendations. While there was some trepidation among the staff and Board, Roger Norrie made a beautiful presentation, assuring us that they were very pleased with the results of the visit and the climate established by the school to make accommodations so pleasant for their stay. It was with a bit of sad-ness that we all said farewell to the TEAM. Then the reality of getting back into our routines and clean-up of the TEAM room hit us. We all felt we had done our best for the Lord and for our wonderful school.

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BirthsWe are happy to announce all births sent to the editor.

• Abigail Kathryn, born on December 9, 2009 to Erik ‘00 and Jenica Law-rence. Abigail weighed in at 9#, 3oz, and 21” long. She joins big sister, Madelyn. Proud grandparents are Grant ‘77 and Karen Lawrence.

• Alyssa Rose born March 12, 2010 to Tony and Amanda ‘97 Morris

Saunders. Proud grandparents are Paul and Ruth Morris.

• Austin William born on January 22, 2010 to Aaron ‘95 and Anna Swindoll ‘96 Lewis. Austin joins Grace, Elija, Anderson and Emilie.

• Karsten, born in October, 2009 to Jeffrey ‘92 and Erin Lowe. Karsten

joins big sister, Ava.

• Haily Ann, Emma Jo, and Olivia Marie born November 19, 2010 to Ivo and Amy Busby Rejchrt. PROUD Grandpa is Jeff Busby ‘70.

• Xavier and Micah born on Novem-ber 17, 2009 to Maurice ‘00 and

Leslie Cowley.

• Eli Benjamin, born in Novem-ber, 2009 to Jesse ‘01 and Maija Smouse ‘02 Haskins.

• Ariella Grace born Oct. 10, 2009 to George (‘99) and Kelly Dreger. Proud grandparents are Edward

(‘68) and Becky Dreger.

• Faith Lily born December 25, 2010 to Daniel ‘01 and Jessica Engeman ‘03 Carlston. Faith joins big brother, Uriah.

• Grant Ryan born on April 27, 2010 to Scot and Michelle Davis. Grant

joins big sister, Belle.

• Ethan Daniel born on February 1, 2010 to Haley Ginn ‘98 and Ryan Choate. Ethan joins big sister Ad-dison.

• Jaden Arman, born on February 17, 2009 to Kyle and Rama Miller ‘00 Pfeiffer. Jaden weighed in at 8#, 13oz.

• Jaxon Gary born on February 20, 2010 to Eric ‘00 and Jessica ‘00 Wilson Dunham. Proud grandpar-ents are John ‘75 and Ann Zimmer-man ‘75 Dunham.

• Kaia Raen, Born April 12, 2010 to Jake ‘03 and Michal Buchanan.

Kaia weighed in at 9# and 21.5” long.

• Karington Lori born July 7, 2010 to Anton and Tasha Winkler ‘01 Bossio.

• Malaki born on May 24, 2009 to Jon-athan ‘03 and Allie Rowlett. Malaki

weighed in at 8# 11oz and 21” long.

• Megan Isla born on January 18, 2010 to Richard and Karen Brewster ‘92 Fangrad. Megan weighed in at 9# 1.8oz.

• Owen James, born on April 25, 2010 to Jon and Kaitlyn Buchanan ‘04 Conner. Owen weighed in at 8#,

11oz and was 21” long.

• Roara Rose born on June 21, 2009 to Lyon and Bellame Pullen ‘03 Richardson. Roara joins big brother, Judah.

Abigail Lawrence

Faith Carlston

Ethan Choate

Jaxon Dunham

Karington Bossio

Roara Richardson

Megan Fangrad

Alyssa Saunders

Grant Davis

Jaden Pfeiffer

Kaia Buchanan

Malaki Rowlett

Owen Conner

Austin Lewis

Karsten Lowe

Haily, Emma & Olivia

Xavier & Michah

Ariella Dreger

Eli Haskins

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Weddings

Steven ‘04 and Trina BeaumontApril 23, 2010

Chris ‘01 and Nichole FenisonDecember 6, 2009

Ryan and Brandy Armstrong ‘07 CowellJuly 20, 2009


• Timothy Lee Welch, passed away April 11, 2010. For 31 years, Tim served the Lord faithfully in Christian School work; first as a teacher then as a principal. Tim served the Lord and the families whose children attended Port-land Christian, Clark County Elementary School for over 6 years. Tim and his wife Lynette worked tirelessly for the school, Lynette helping in any capacity

the Lord called her to, at both the Vancouver and High School campuses in Portland. Tim and Lynette have two children who graduated from PCHS; Trevor in the class of 2001 and Ashley Welch Fadden graduating in 2003.

Tim’s passion was always to serve the Lord as an educator. Over the years, he loved and desired to see growth in each of the children entrusted to him as principal. Prior to his death, Tim served as principal of Emmaus Christian School in Hillsboro, OR. Several PCS teachers, staff and students who knew Tim well want everyone to remember him as a wonderful, Godly, kind man and competent principal who cared deeply for everyone.

• On March 8, 2010, Steven For-ney ‘77 went to be with the Lord following his “final” heart attack. Steve had suffered from multiple such attacks with ensuing sur-geries prior to his retiring from his position at Shin-etsu America where he was the supervisor of a high tech lab. Steve graduated from Portland Christian High in 1977 where he served as Student Body presi-

dent, played basketball, baseball and football, and was a 1977 Oregonian All-Star Student. Always an outstanding student at PCH, Steve went on to major in chemistry at George Fox College.

Later he returned to teach chemistry and physical science at Portland Christian High School. In addition to being a fine teacher, he was a student of the Word. Steve continued throughout his teaching career to press a biblical world view upon his students always pre-senting the truth of God as Creator of this world and Sustainer of all life. After poor health led him to retire, Steve devoted his life to Science 4 Faith, producing writ-ings and videos presenting the truth of literal creation as the pathway to understanding God’s Word.

While a teacher at PCH, Steve met Janet Wallberg, girl’s PE teacher. It soon became evident that the Lord had long ago planned to bring them together at this time in their lives and soon they were married in 1989. Janet and Steve enjoyed a wonderful 21 years of mar-riage, the perfect helpmates for one another.

The Forney family has a long history at PCS. Cous-ins, Denise graduated in 1974, Dave graduated in 1976 and Danita in 1978. Followed by Steve and his cousins, brother, Jim graduated in 1988. Today, Jim and Caro-lann Forney have their three children at PC. Jordan

will graduate in 2011 and the twins, Morgan and Taylor in 2012, leaving a legacy of over 50 years of Forney’s at PCH.

After learning of Steve’s home going, many com-ments were sent to the school. A colleague wrote: “I have good memories of working with Steve. He truly loved our Lord and always sought to integrate scripture and sci-ence.” “Mr. Forney was one of my favorite teachers. My junior year he led a ‘men’s prayer group at lunch. I loved his patience both in the classroom and on the football field: a true man of God.” “I have been watching his sci-ence/creation project and when he finished it, was plan-ning to have my kids go through it. As a young man, he was a real example to me.” “Wow! This man helped me gain my confidence on the football field. My memories of PCH football with Coach Forney are very vivid.” “My husband and Mr. Forney have connected through Cre-ation Ministries, International. I love seeing how God shapes the events in our lives.” “Thank you, Lord for the influence Mr. Forney has had in my life. I will always be so grateful.”

• Ralph Gilbert, owner of the ECR just west of the school, passed away in December. Ralph was a strong Christian man, a wonderful neighbor, and a faithful friend of the school. In the late nineties, when Portland Christian Jr. Sr. High School was rebuilding their track and football field, Ralph intervened in a dispute be-tween the school and the neighborhood groups who had expressed concern about exit and entry to the school. Ralph offered to build a ten foot high retaining wall be-tween the ECR property and that of the school.

• Reverend Daniel Hager. In 1955, Rev, and Mrs. Hager en-rolled their 4 children in Port-land Christian Schools. Rev. Hager was quickly known as one who truly understood and lived out his biblical world view as well as understanding its application to all of life and in particular, Christian Education. Joining the Board of Trustees in 1957, Pastor Hager served Portland Christian

faithfully until 1962. He consistently challenged his fellow Board mem-

bers, the administration, teachers and staff to think Christianly about all they did and taught; integrating biblical principles into every classroom and extracur-ricular activity.

On many occasions, Pastor Hager also took time to substitute in classrooms as needed. One student re-marked, “The first question he always asked was, ‘Are you saved and do you know for sure?’ Let’s examine the question.” He was a rare Christian who lived out a bibli-cal world view before the phrase was ever used in the Christian school as it is today.

He was always concerned that the teachers were challenged as well. One special teacher is Larry Zim-merman. An up and coming young teacher with a brilliant mind, Pastor Hager realized that this teacher could go in any number of directions with his life. To

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Daniel Hager there was only one way: this man had to be educated, discipled and mentored in the philosophy of Christian Education. This he did, and Larry became and still is one of the greatest thinkers and proponents of a biblical world view in Christian Education today. As Larry said, “It is the calling of the Christian School to ‘deseculatize’ the curriculum and every aspect of life.”

This is but one individual affected by Daniel Hager, yet this one individual has influenced the minds and lives of literally hundreds of Portland Christian stu-dents. Rev Hager has influenced perhaps thousands of lives for the gospel in his lifetime. A grateful school stands in awe of this great man. All praise belongs to our Lord.

On the 12th of February, 2010, Pastor Hager joined his beloved wife, Mildred, (November 2008) and his daughter, Bethel ‘58 (September 2009) in heaven at the age of nearly 96 years. He is survived by daughters Hannah ‘59 and Rhoda ‘60, and his son, John (J. T.) ‘62.

• As the am-bulance pulled away from John Fitzgerald’s apartment follow-ing his massive stroke, he began testifying of the love of Jesus to the paramedics who answered the call. All the way to the hospital, he sang praises to the Lord. ”How Great Thou Art” sung on perfect key, was coming

from his lips, the final song before slipping into uncon-sciousness and shortly into the presence of the Lord.

In the pocket of the jacket he was wearing the day of his stroke was a tattered piece of paper with a piece he had written: “My determined purpose is that I may know Jesus Christ and Him alone, that I may progres-sively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, perceiving, recognizing, and understanding the wonders of His Person and that I may come to know the power flowing out from His resurrection.” (The piece continues..)

John and Beverly Fitzgerald enrolled all four of their children at Portland Christian School about 1964. John

taught Bible at the school and became principal of the elementary school in 1965. He shared a deep conviction with those who had founded the school some 18 years earlier that to fully understand Truth, one must first know the source of that Truth. That source, the Lord Jesus Christ, could only be taught by men and women who knew Him personally and understood His Word and work as Creator and Redeemer of all creation.

Marilyn, the oldest of the Fitzgerald children, graduated in 1972 followed by Karen in 1973, Martha was in the class of 1979, and John was in the class of 1982. Because the Fitzgerald family moved away from Portland for a period of time, neither Martha nor John actually received PCH diplomas. Martha, however, re-mained active with her class and as many in her situa-tion, considers PCH and no other, her high school.

John left this to be read at his memorial service, “Think soberly about your life. It is far too short to focus on your own pleasure. Instead be wise and live so that people who know you will want to know your Savior. Ending life with a good name and reputation is far bet-ter than beginning and living life with an uncertain future.” “We all face eternity. Where we spend it will be determined by what choices we make in this life. This day choose LIFE in the Lord Jesus Christ.”

(Ed. Note: John signed my first Portland Christian Schools letter of Intent to Hire on April 18,1966)


NEWS FROM PCSAnother

year is winding down and it is nice to look back at all the suc-cess stories for this past year. There are many stories to

recount for the school and teachers individually, but our focus must al-ways be on the children. Just as we

move into this beautiful spring sea-son of the year with flowers bursting into bloom and the promise of new life all around us, so we see many, many of our students blossoming: spiritually, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Of particular interest are those whom God brought specifically to our campus. These are the children who need a “certain” touch or extra attention from our staff. I commend the wonderful teachers and staff for being willing to be servants of the

Lord and to be used by Him to make a difference in all our student’s lives.

This is what Portland Christian is all about. This is our main focus and ministry. It is our sacred task to train up children with their young minds in the Truth of God’s Word. It is such an honor and privilege to watch the Lord’s work unfold in the lives of each child. And what joy to see the Lord at work in each one of us as adults and the blessings that come when we are faithful to be obe-dient to Him.

lIfe At the elementAry CAmpuS

Portland Christian Schools is proud to offer a program during

the summer that will make it one of the best ever for PCS students. Classes ranging from all phases of the arts, drama and music, sports, history, physics, geography, jour-nalism and photography, German, debate, missions, etc., are being of-

fered for eight weeks, from June 21st through August 13th. While some of these classes are repeated many will not. Each class runs three hours per day for five consecutive days in any given week. The classes are open to PC students as well as to all who might be interested from the community.

For information a brochure may be had by calling the school at 503-256-3960, ext. 0, find the information on the PCS web site at www.pcschools.org, or by contacting Becky Taylor, the program direc-tor at [email protected] or calling her at 503-256-3960 ext. 246.

hIgh SChool Summer SChool 2010

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On February 13, 2010, the El-ementary School Chess Team,

coached by Alan Svehaug, competed in the Regional Tournament held at the high school. There were 13 full teams and 108 players, grades K-5, from all over the Portland/Vancou-ver area. Each team was allowed to enter 10 players, half of whom had to be in grade 5. As a team, PCES came from behind and took 1st place with the honor of going to the State playoffs in the Oregon Conven-tion Center.

In the regional Tournament, Grant Saxton won all 5 of his games

and took 1st place honors in the fifth grade division. Nehemiah Jack-son, grade 3, won all 5 of his games and took 1st place honors for grades K-4. Grant Wisenbaker won 4 out of 5 of his games and tied for 3rd place in the grades K-4 category. Sophia Lukovich, grade 2, won 3 out of 5 games in her first tournament ever and Brandon Cannard, a kinder-garten student, won 21/2 game. PCES walked away winning ALL the first places offered at the Tour-nament. Great results from such a young team! Most importantly, they brought honor and respect to Port-land Christian Schools.

the lIttle teAm thAt Could

The 2009-2010

school year has come to an end and once again we are reminded of the dedi-cation and calling of the teachers in this program.

Day by day, they faithfully minister to these little ones who literally are the future of our country and in this global economy, our world.

For the past two years, the EE staff has been focusing on getting ready for the April 2010 visit by the accreditation TEAM. This TEAM comes to our campus for four days and does a complete study of the school in order to evaluate the pro-gram and its compliance with all the Standards as defined by the accred-iting body, ACSI. (See the articles on accreditation on pages 6-7)

I am thrilled to say, thanks to the hard work of each one; it ap-

pears that we passed with flying colors. With this said, we all moved quickly into working on and finish-ing up the year-end details, particu-larly, the student portfolios.

Student portfolios are wonderful informational tools requiring much diligent work on the part of each EE teacher. These portfolios are then given to each child as they leave for the summer months. Portfolios contain the EE events of the past year including assessments of each child’s progress, notes of encour-agement to each child and pictures of all the learning activities and field trips in which each child was involved. I might add, few preschools offer this kind of annual detailed portfolio for each student.

As the school year draws to a close we are all gearing up for the exciting summer program ahead. Portland Christian Schools, EE and kindergarten graduates through the 6th grade are included in this pro-gram. Beginning June 14th through the week of August 23rd, families may enroll their children for any one

of the theme specific weeks OR even one or two days of the week, OR they may enroll their students for the entire summer, OR a month OR any combination of the above. Sum-mer school is open to any family in the community, regardless whether or not they plan to enroll their child in Portland Christian Schools in the fall.

The theme for the summer pro-gram is SURFING THE WAVE OF TRUTH. Surfing is the art of riding the waves. Surfers just ride them, but God provides them. God creates waves of growth, grace, faith and power and He moves in love through His Word, the Bible. Throughout the summer program, children will be engaged in numerous activities and field trips where they will learn how to surf God’s waves by knowing that He alone is the Truth and the Life. Please call 503-256-5455 ext. 324 or e-mail me at [email protected] for further information or a visit and tour of the school.–Rhonda Rogers, EE Director

eArly ChIldhood eduCAtIon A portlAnd ChrIStIAn foundAtIonAl mInIStry

PCS Sci-ence

Department Head, Kim Newman is the recipient of a grant from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust to work in part-

nership with Dr. Peta Grigsby to conduct research during the next two summers at Oregon National Primate Research Center, OHSU in Beaverton, OR. Kim is one of only twenty-one teachers from the Pacific Northwest to receive this honor. The title of the research to be conducted is Studies of Ureaplasma Invasion of Epithelial Cell.

The grant is awarded through the Partners in Science Program

of the Murdock Trust. The primary goal of the Program is to provide high school science teachers with opportunities to work on the cutting edge of science, thus revitalizing their teaching and helping them appreciate the use of inquiry-based methods in the teaching of science. Ultimately, it is hoped these awards will increase the number of students choosing to pursue science careers.


KIm newmAn AwArded m. J. murdoCK grAnt

This winter was one

of historic proportions for Portland Christian Athletics. Both the Girls and Boys team ran through various

competitions en route to the state championships in Pendleton.

The Boy’s shocked the previously unbeaten Cobras from Central Linn in a hard fought state final 54-38.The team certainly finished playing their best basketball of the sea-son winning their final 12 games. It was the second state championship in the last three years for the Boy’s program, and third in the schools history (1992, 2008).

The Girl’s high pressure de-fense and high powered offense was enough to come up victorious in every single game played during the 2009-10 season. They finished

with a state best 29-0 record, capped off by beating St. Mary’s 51-34 in the finals. The girls accu-mulated the second highest point per game average in the state at any classification. It was the Royals 3rd state championship in the last 7 years (2004, 2007).

It was the first time in the history of the 2A classification that both teams won the title in the same year, and this fifth time ever in the state of Oregon at any classification. Both coaches (Jeff Huston, Tom West) were named State coaches of the year, and Vance Downey, Brit-taney Niebergall and Kaely Maltman were selected as first team all state players.

Congrats to all the players, coaches and supporters who put forth the effort needed to accomplish such an impressive feat.

“God and our Father: To Whom be glory for ever.” Galatians 1:4-5

–Aaron Lewis ‘95Athletic Director and Coach

Upcoming Event:Booster Awards banquet May 27th (7:00) @ PCHS. Dave John-son (Olympic Bronze Medalist and Corban University Athletic Director) will be our key note speaker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJkfE1M9wA

http://www.bigcrelays.com/Dave_Johnson_2ODL.html

the Ad wrIteS from the BleACherS

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Thanks to the amazing talent of PC’S Drama Director, Renee

Seed, the musical, “Suessical, The Musical” opened on April, 22nd, Earth Day to a packed out house. For some time, Renee wanted to bring an unusual piece of work to the PCS Theatre which could fea-ture actors and actresses of all ages as well as giving these individuals ranging in age from one to Grand-pas, an opportunity to an “open palette of creative devices”. As was expressed, “we could choose to do whatever we wanted to do with our characters. After all, Dr. Seuss chal-lenged us to “think outside the box”.

The musical featured 10 seniors, 5 Juniors, 9 Sophomores, 5 Fresh-man, 6 8th-graders, 1 7th-grader and 6 6th-graders with a combined total experience of 117 productions. Mr. Drama, Senior, Eric Arnold Les-ter Mauk leads the way with a total of 10 shows to his credit. While the

Drama/Music Department is los-ing 10 great actors from the Senior class, the depth of field down to the 6th grade makes for a very strong future for the PCS Drama/Music Department, indeed.

The musical; words, music and book, written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is based on the works of Dr. Seuss and incorpo-rates characters from 15 of his best loved stories. This production, in allowing directors, actors, stage, sound, lighting and costume design-ers to also “think outside the box”, incorporated the design concepts proposed by Director, Renee Seed: reduce, reuse, reseuss, or as the musical was affectionately referred to: “The Reusical Musical”. The goal was to borrow, rebuild and reuse as may costumes and props as pos-sible, thus embracing and keeping with the truth of the theme, “Earth Day”. The audience was challenged

during each performance to find as many recycled items as possible.

“A person’s a person, no matter how small”, and honor the power to take a stand for what you believe in. Take a moment to see others strengths, pro-tect each other in times of trial, and have faith in what you cannot see.”

Some words of tribute to Renee came from Gail Gunstone, cello player, mom of senior Tari, mom of 4 beautiful PCH alumni, and PCES’s wonderful art teacher. “Renee Seed makes everything she creates top notch and amazing.” “Everything Renee does is mixed with love.” “She can take teenagers, giving them acting skills and love, and together produce amazing shows for all to see.” “Renee Seed rocks because she makes us all look good.”

Thank you Drama Director, Renee Seed for another suburb performance.

SeuSSICAl the muSICAl: An eVent outSIde the BoX

Around the world In 180 mInuteS…

CongrAtulAtIonS ChoIr/emSemBle/BAnd

On April 9th, the

international students organized an exciting event of cultural activities and foods from around the world. Stu-dents from 9

countries participated in this year’s extravaganza.

300 attendees enjoyed cuisine cooked by the international stu-dents. Attendees also participated in action-oriented cultural activity cen-ters. Activities included Japanese art, Korean action games, a Chinese

engineering challenge, Vietnamese painting and the Russian accuracy target game.

The international students decorated each table in the theme of Around the World in 180 Minutes. Each table included photos and descriptions of cities throughout the world as global harmony was em-phasized and reflected throughout the evening. The evening was par-ticularly enhanced by the amazing performance of Lee Lion Dance with a fun reflection of the colorful art of lion dancing.

This school year, ISP students hail from 9 countries: Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brazil, Russia, Africa and Finland. The 2010 International Food Night was

a wonderful cultural evening which was acclaimed by all as a great suc-cess.

Host Families Needed for Japanese Yono Girls

in September20 host families are needed for the weekend of September 24-26, 2010. The girls will be picked up at the school on September 24th and re-turned to the school on the morning of the 27th. Please contact Kathy Nyone, PCS Host Home Coordinator, at [email protected] if you are able to host two girls.

–Sheila Tretter, Director of Interna-tional Student Affairs

In March, the Choir, Band and Ensemble made their way to Ana-

heim, CA to compete in the annual Heritage Musical Festival. All the students in these groups not only

had a great time, they truly hon-ored the Lord in their performances bringing home two Gold Medals for the Choir and Ensemble perfor-mances and a Bronze Plaque for the band.

In addition to their performanc-es at the Heritage Music Festi-val, the groups also had other

opportunities to perform on their music tour through Oregon and California. (Dare we mention, the students and teachers also took a day off to enjoy Disneyland).

To help pay for the trip, the Mu-

sic Department moved the Spa-get-together from its night in May, an historic event for PCH, to February. The theme of the Spa-get-together was, of course, The World of Disney. The performances by the students were a smashing success as indi-cated by the record $10,500 raised from the dinner, donations, and the annual cake auction, an event that reaches back well into the late fifties at Portland Christian High School.

Recently a group of ladies from Parklane Church in Portland held a retreat in the

mountains. During the two days the women were together, they learned that half of them were either Alumni, married to Alumni or were moms of Alumni, or were moms of stu-dents currently attending PCS. Alumni con-nections ranged all the way from 1969 to the present. One lady expressed it this way, “You just can’t get away from Portland Christian.”

mAKIng the ConneCtIonS


portlAnd ChrIStIAn CongrAtulAteS

David Sellers,

National Merit Final-ist. David was named in the top group of over 16,000 students in the country. From this group of stu-

dents, over 8000 will be chosen as National Merit Scholars.

pCS CongrAtulAteS JunIor, Sydney fArley

For her outstand-

ing showcase performance at the Or-egon State Thespian Competition. She show-cased in solo musical, won first place

in costume design and was elected as a Student Board Member of the Oregon State Thespians.

CongrAtulAtIonS 6th grAde gIrlS Cyo ChAm-pIon BASKetBAll teAm

A puBlIShed Author AmongSt uS

Portland Chris-

tian Schools congratulates sophomore, Crystal LeFe-bvre who had her submis-sion to Ink-Filled Page accepted to be published

this spring. “Street Rat” was sub-mitted to the youth issue which is a literary and arts journal featur-ing fiction, nonfiction, and art work in four quarterly electronic issues and one print anthology each year. Uniting sensory and visual arts, the publication’s works take readers on a journey of sensory and intellectual stimulation. Contributing artists and writers come from all over the US and foreign countries.

portlAnd ChrIStIAn honorS hIgh SChool

StudentS

David Smouse

Chloe Gillock

Preston Dace

Megan Nuttleman

Jordan & Andrew Landstrom

Congratulations to PCS Outstanding Students

16 REALS


March 3rd-6th at the Pendleton Convention Center, the Port-

land Christian men and women basket ball teams began their climb to the top as the girls overcame Hep-pner 66 to 43 in game 1. On March 4th, the boys overcame Salem Acad-emy 38/25 as they continued their forward motion. And by the end of game 2 on Friday afternoon after beating Knappa 49/45, the PC men were heading into the final game on Saturday night. It was the girl’s turn on Friday night as they overtook Salem Academy 57/38, moving just one step away from the victory they had come to Pendleton for, and the goal they had set for themselves at the beginning of the season: to fin-ish undefeated.

It was the night of the big games. The crowds were electric and the PCH Royal ladies were “not the favorite of the crowds to win”. Many basketball fans at the tour-nament joined the rooting section for St Marys, hoping their cheers, jeers and taunts would unravel the Royals. The Royal fans remained undaunted knowing that their Lord was with their girls and that His will would be accomplished that evening. As the girls were finish-ing warming up amidst the growing

number of opposing fans yelling for their defeat, a huge roar erupted from the Royals cheering sec-tion as a group of young men wearing purple and gold T-shirts rushed in and joined the PC fans. The De La Salle varsity boys’ team climbed into the PC section receiving a loud standing ovation from the Royal crowd. The game began. The girls won 51 to 34.

Riding the wave of enthusiasm after watching their PC girls take the State title, the boys hit the floor to the cheers of the enthusiastic crowd

of PCH sup-porters. They came out strong and were by no means intimi-dated. Run-ning neck and neck through much of the first quarter, the Royals

took a 27-21 lead at the half. Cen-tral Linn, the undefeated 2A giant, was about to fall. As the game ended with the Portland Christian men taking the Cobras by a score of 54 to 38, PCH became one of only four schools, and the fifth such honor, in the history of OSAA Basketball to win both girls and boys titles in the same season. Other schools earn-ing these honors are: LaSalle (1981 and 1984), Stayton (1995), Jefferson (2008) and now the PORTLAND CHRISTIAN ROYAL POWERHOUSE in 2010.

While Saturday, the 6th of March was a history making event for Port-land Christian Schools, it was also a big night for the Niebergalls. Senior Tommy and his sister Brittany, a junior, were both starting point guards for their teams. AND their dad, Tom, was the boys’ assistant coach. For the Niebergalls, it was a family victory.

Honors accorded the PCH Royals went to Spencer Bolt, QWEST Player of the Game and All State 1st Team and Vance Downey who was named MVP of the Tournament. For the la-dies, Kaley Maltman was named the QWEST Player of the Game, named to the All State 1st Team as well as being named NWL Player of the Year. Brittany Neibergall was also named to the All State 1st Team and honored as the MVP of the Tournament.

The entire PCS family: faculty, students, staff, board, alumni and friends of Portland Christian Schools, join as one in congratulat-ing these great players and their coaches. All thanks and praise be-long to the Lord for giving our teams the talent and ability to honor Him through the sport of basketball.

pCh royAlS, A BASKetBAll powerhouSe In 2010

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Graduates of Portland Christian are serving in many areas of the world. Please send names to PCHS for inclu-sion in the next REALS edition.

❤ Russ Lambert ‘54 OCI

❤ Dr. Camille Jamison ‘54 SIM USA

❤ Diane Sievers ‘54 Executive Direc-tor of PREP 4kids, Portland

❤ John and Jean Sealy ‘57 Kru-gers , International Fellowship, Africa

❤ Jim and Lanita Smith ‘58 Sweeney, Directors, Jesus Film Project, NW

❤ Jaunita Phillips ‘59 Schiewek, Hawaii

❤ Gene and Sheryl Shields ‘59 Good, and family, Hope House, Marsing, ID

❤ Chuck ‘61 and Sally Keller, Ban Lung, Cambodia

❤ Virginia Bradley ‘61 Cameroon, Africa

❤ Jake and Marie Birch ‘65 Penner, Eastern Europe

❤ Bob and Joyce Lander ‘66 Carl-son, Kenya

❤ Jerry Glass ‘67 Uruguay, Biblical Ministries Worldwide

❤ Mike Rice ‘69 Emmaus Prison Ministries

❤ Gretchen Barter ‘70 Cheney and family, Wycliffe Bible Translators

❤ Pastor Alan Goetsch ‘70 and fam-ily, Beyond the Cross Ministries, MO

❤ Dr. Carl ‘71 and Cindy Reed, Indonesia

❤ Dr. Scott Walt ‘76 and family, Austria

❤ Pastor Mark Turansky ‘77 and family, Hawaii

❤ Dr. Lori Marvel ‘78 Salierno, Cel-ebrate Life Int’l.

❤ Pastor Jon Gleason ‘78 and family, Scotland

❤ Debbie Driesner ‘78, Mustangs and MOHR

❤ Pastor Brent Ralston ‘79 and family, Phillipines

❤ Dan Brose ‘79 and family, World Relief Ministries, humanitarian aid from the USA to the world

❤ Kari Keiser ‘80 Carrico and family, Japan

❤ Mike Patrick ‘80 Stillwater Stables Ministry, Ohio

❤ Kevin Bradley ‘81 and familiy Portland Rescue Mission

❤ Ron Lockwood ‘82 and family, Wycliffe, Germany

❤ Bob Lockwood ‘84 and family, Luis Palau Ministries

❤ Aron and Yvonne Dick ‘91 Noll and family, Campus Crusade for Christ, Global Aid Network

❤ Christina Walsh ‘91 Firezar and family, ministering from USA to Oradea, Romania

❤ Karen Brewster ‘92 Fangrad and family, Creation Ministries, Int’l., Canada

❤ Jason Oversteet ‘92, RESCUE Music Ministry

❤ Dan ‘94 and Daryl Payne ‘96 Collins, Bolivia

❤ Monica Blackwell ‘93 Brubaker and family, Chi Alpha Ministries, UofO

❤ Eric Chirgwin ‘93 and fam-ily, Young Life, Washington Family Ranch

❤ Duan Walker ‘95, Director of Mid-Valley Fellowship

❤ Micah ‘95 and Amy Stellar ‘95 Tuttle and family, Peru

❤ Janell Engeman ‘95 Hartley and family, OC Int’l., Swaziland, Africa

❤ Mike Manus ‘05, Royal Servants, International

❤ Dan and Marta Lewis, Hungary

❤ Shirley Wells, Israel

❤ Dr. John Schneider, Nursing-Home Ministries

❤ Eric Swanson-Dexel and family, Director of Camp Hammer Christian Ministries in California.

❤ Joe and Karin Anfuso Forward Edge Ministries

Thank you for keeping us updated on the status of our men and women in the military. Unless we hear dif-ferently, names will remain on this prayer list. Thank you for praying.

❤ Lt. Bryce Tucker Coast Guard, (husband of Liz Phares ‘94)

❤ AJ Alovera ‘96 Marines

❤ Ensign Michelle Waldal ‘98 Navy

❤ Matt Strange ‘99, Naval Marine Corpsman

❤ Brian Poling ‘01 Navy

❤ Cpt. Alex Esson ‘02 Air Force, Korea

❤ Luke Koetje, husband of Shelley Wright ‘02 Marines

❤ Jonathan Chambers ‘03 Marines

❤ Travis Hewitt ‘03 Marines

❤ Jonathan Rowlett ‘03 Navy

❤ Robbie Brandon ‘03 Marines

❤ Jon Lackey ‘03 Navy

❤ Ryan Dewey ‘03 Air Force

❤ Aaron Wolf ‘04 Navy

❤ Matt McBride ‘04 Navy

❤ Mike Manus ‘05 Navy Reserve

❤ 2nd Lt Kyle Durant ‘05 Marines

❤ John Rogers ‘05 Navy

❤ Michael Garrison ‘06 Air Force

❤ Peter Khallaf Army

❤ J.C. Russell ‘09 U.S. Naval Academy

❤ Spc. Richard Kelly Army, Iraq

❤ Sgt Christina Clark, Army MP’s in Japan

General Requests for Prayer.

❤ Bill Buck, Director of Commu-nity Affairs, living with Non-Arteric Ischemic Retinopathy with an 80% loss of vision.

❤ Becky Coulson, Jr. High and In-ternational Student Counselor, that her cancer would remain in remission.

❤ Rob Shadle as he transitions from PCES and Rhonda Rogers as she takes on the role of PCS EE-6 School Principal.

❤ Faculty and staff as they prepare for Summer School, EE-12.

❤ Faculty and Staff to be refreshed over the summer months.

❤ The families of all those who have lost loved ones (See In Memoriam)

Praise

❤ The work of preparing for PCS Ac-creditation over the last two and a half years was well received by the ACSI/NAAS Accreditation TEAM. (See story on page )

for

PORTLAND CHRISTIAN FEATURED ALUMNI

dAVId myerS ‘70 worKS CloSely wIth femA

Dave My-ers ‘70,

the Director for the De-partment of Homeland Se-curity’s Cen-ter for Faith Based and Community Initiatives is working

closely with FEMA in its role to provide support to the State Depart-ment’s USAID office. David’s agency is collaborating with DHS’s Customs and Border Patrol, and Citizenship and Immigration Services in their roles in bringing families and indi-viduals to the States from Haiti.

lISA roBertS ‘97 SIngle-terry, reCeIVeS teACher

ed. SCholArShIp Recently Multnomah University announced that Lisa Singleterry had been se-

lected as the recipient of the Marvin Johnson Teacher Education Award. Lisa teaches music to students, grades K-6 in the PC Elementary School Program.

tyler CAffAll ‘01, A rISIng StAr

Tyler Caf-fall, Class

of 2001, is studying at The New School of Dra-ma located in Manhattan, NY. In 2009, Tyler was ac-cepted into the prestigious

graduate school to work on his Mas-ters of Arts Degree in Theatre Arts.

Since graduating from PCH and Warner Pacific College in 2005, Tyler has held leading roles in nine major plays both in the United States and Europe (Edinbourgh and Oxford). Beginning June 4th, Tyler will be acting in the Shakespeare in the Park summer series held annually in New York City’s Central Park. Acting opposite Al Pachino, Tyler co-stars in The Merchant of Venice and A Winter’s Tale.

Tyler received the 2008 Drammy Award – Best Supporting Actor for his role in the play House and Gar-den.

KIm hIll ‘08 eArnS AVCA All-Amer-

ICAn honor

Pepperdine woman’s

volleyball player, Kim Hill ‘08, add-ed her biggest honor yet to a growing

list as she was named All-American honorable mention team in January of this year. A sophomore blocker, Kim was previously to the AVCA All-Pacific Regional squad and the All-West Coast Conference first team. Currently, Kim ranks fifth in the nation in hitting percentage (.425) and the second on the team in kills (3.01) and blocks (0.72).

In the last two matches of the 2009 season, Kim recorded double-figure kills in each of her last 13 matches and was named the WCC Player of the Month in November. Setting the Pepperdine record for hitting percentage in a single sea-son, she holds the career record as well.

In 2008, Kim was the WCC Freshman of the Year as well as an all-WCC honorable mention selec-tion for the 2008 season.

dAVId nuttelmAn ‘09 reCeIVeS hIgheSt SCout

honor

The high-est honor

accorded by the Boy Scouts of America is the status of EAGLE SCOUT. David Nuttel-man received this honor at

an Eagle Scout Court of Honor on April 10, 2010.As his final step in acquiring this award, David spent well in excess of 150 hours remodel-ing rooms and bathrooms in the old Kenton School in North Portland now the home of De La Salle.

As part of his required commu-nity outreach work, David proposed the project to PPS, wrote up the proposal, drew up the plans, and determined what needed to be done to accomplish these projects. While David had help from other commu-nity agencies, he did much of the work in sprucing up halls, bath-rooms, etc., on his own.

lIndSAy reInhArdt ‘07 poSter gIrl for uSf

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––English/Theology Double MajorHonors ScholarAll-American Sprinter

USF ChoirTrack ScholarshipMusic ScholarshipAvid VolunteerFellowship of Christian Athletes

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Lindsay Reinhardt wanted more than an education.She wanted a whole life experience. She found it atthe University of Sioux Falls. Our Christian liberalarts community of highly supportive professors,

coaches and mentors enables people like Lindsay topursue their dreams not only inside the classroombut outside as well. That’s because USF isn’t justacademics or athletics or faith.We’re the whole picture.The whole person.We’re USF the whole way.


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Record #1: There were 3 Home Basketball Games during the week: both boys and girls won all three of these home games.

Record #2: Several Alumni who graduated back in the early years of the school, returned to see the games. Several of these Alums had not been back to PCH since graduation

Record #3: More than 50 players participated in The Alumni Tour-nament held on Saturday, Janu-ary 16th.

Record #4: The first ever non-alumni team made up of current PCH faculty played in the Tourna-ment.

Record #5: The Alumni Apprecia-tion Luncheon on Saturday was attended by well over 125 people. (Indication: “lack of left-over food”).

Aaron Lewis ‘95 did an amaz-ing job of organizing the event

which is growing in numbers and popularity each year. Lining up the

participants by classes, Aaron di-vided the groups into teams accord-ingly. Many players had not met one another prior to the 8:00am open gym time on Saturday, but by the end of the day, many were swapping stories of the “good old days” at PCH.

It was rumored that the guys from early years of the 21st century had returned to this year’s “Classic Tournament” ready for “combat”, (in a Christian way of course). The team players from 1967-1987, 2009 Tour-nament Winners, wore purple, the 1988-1995 players wore gray, the classes of 1996 to 2001 wore black followed by the classes of 2002-2003 in gold and the ‘youngsters’ from

2004-2009 era wearing pink; thus complet-ing the Alumni roster. Not to be undone by the Alumni basketball players,

the non-alumni PC faculty wearing white made up a team of their own, and joined in the competition.

Each team played two games in round robin competition. Finally, in the afternoon, the Tournament was down to the final two: the mighty warriors from 1992-1995 and the “hot shots” from 2002-2003. It was a hard fought game, especially since a player or two from the earlier era had coached the younger ones. The players from 2002-2003, appropri-ately in gold shirts, prevailed, and the Tournament came to a sweet end. Jesse Stratos ‘02 was de-clared the MVP of the Tournament.

Around 2:00 pm, following the last game, the champions, along with a few well-wishers came to the lunch room hoping for a last few mor-sels of food. Their “old coach”, Eric Chirgwin ‘93, now their competi-tor, joined the group as they relived their old PCH days along with the glory of that day’s victory.

A very special thanks go to John Birkhofer, game referee, along with Jon Roberts ‘94 and Andrew Jannsen ‘86 who jumped in occa-sionally to help when John needed a well-deserved break from pound-ing the court. Also to be thanked is Ben Lewis ‘93 who ran the score clock throughout the game. Another round of thanks goes to AD Aaron Lewis ‘95 for his organization, plan-ning and execution of the 5th Annu-al Alumni Basketball Tournament.

CONGRATULATIONS to the PLAY-ERS from 2002-2003. You did a great job!!!

2010 5th AlumnI AppreCIAtIon, A reCord SettIng weeK

Ashley Fenison ‘03 Ainley & Wendy Hamsik ‘80 Fenison

Heidi Garrison ‘08 Porter & Anna Patten ‘08

Jim Newcomer ‘66, Blain Brown ‘64, Ben Brown ‘66

NOTES to the REALS• Grace Rogers ‘71 writes: “I am sending you a check to keep the REALS going. I want to always be included in receiving the REALS and keeping up with all that is going on with Portland Christian and the Alumni.”

• Debbie Driesner ‘78 writes that she “ran into” Randy Porter ‘76 recently at the NW Fair and EXPO in Albany. Debbie was showing her horse and Randy is the Linn County Fairgrounds Manager. They decided to get a picture for the REALS. “Thanks, Debbie.”

• Marisse LaFont ‘95 writes: “I’m sitting here working away and you crossed my mind, therefore I decided to explore further as it has been so many years. I wonder, do you remember me? I was in the gradu-ating class of 1995. It was my first year but indeed a very memorable one. I am well. My immediate family, mother, papa, aunt, great aunt and siblings are all well. (Ed. note: when Marisse was at PCH, the whole family became part of the school for that short time.) 2010 has started off with a bang for me. I feel fortu-nate, I have experienced ups and

downs and thankfully have come out on top of the hill (so to speak). I now own a company called M & L Production, Inc. I welcome shar-ing more and also being reunited in our life’s paths. Please reach out so I can share more details with you.” [email protected].

• Phil Stellar ‘96, writes: “Perhaps you remember me as that crazy and shy guy. Well not much has changed. I’m still shy, still crazy. Short and simple! God is working mightily in my life. I have a quick question for you. I was just thinking of Mr. Tom Clock. He only taught at PCH for a year. He started the concept of required journaling in his English class. Some students did not appreciate this requirement but if only we knew the benefits and bore up under the “burden” to receive the blessing. Mrs. Highman read these journalings as well and wrote many encouraging things in the margins of the papers. The teaching idea originated with Mr. Clock and I give him the credit for this blessing in my life and occa-sionally wish I could contact him. I have journaled on and off since high school and most recently have a renewed passion for handwriting in journals. Most of my thoughts and recorded history are in these books and I have these teachers to thank for this wonderful heritage. (Ed. note: If anyone knows the where-abouts of Mr. Clock, please e-mail Phil at [email protected].)

• Nathan Luke ‘03, writes “Megan is working at the YMCA, we moved

into a cozy apartment in Tualatin overlooking the Lake on the Com-mons, and I am a parttime student at PSU and have returned to work-ing for Regal Cinemas. So here we are, 3 1/2 years married and hap-pily “spinning away” in Tualatin.

• Heather Ross ‘03 recently visited Portland Christian while on the west coast visiting her brother, David ‘01 in Vancouver and Grandma in Se-quim, WA. Standing with Heather in the photo above is Chris Keller ‘05, substitute teacher at PCH. Heather graduates from Brown University this spring with her Masters Degree in Public Health. Congratulations, Heather.

• Angela Schilling Fritz ‘05 writes from Juneau: “Alex (husband) and I are enjoying Juneau; the weather has been very mild this winter; we haven’t done much outdoor stuff, although I did go skiing for the first time with the students I work with at the Alternative High School here in town. Yes, I work at an alterna-tive high school, as an office aide. It’s such a rewarding job; I’m build-ing relationships with students and staff, all while running their lap-

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Carolyn Boersema Ladd ‘76 and Loraine Boersema Carson ‘82

The McCain Ladies: Rachel ‘06, Kathy (mom),

Stephanie ‘02, Kelly ‘98

Jeff ‘95 and Michelle Bennett ‘95 Martin

from Portland Christian Alumni & Friendstop and lunch programs. Alex and I leave for Skagway to work for 5 months beginning in May.”

• Heidi Webb ‘07 and Travis Clin-ton are engaged. A June wedding is planned. Congratu-lations, Heidi and Travis.

• Faenell Finster Bartlett (former PCH English teacher and Dept. Head) writes from West Virginia: “Over spring break Chuck and Kathy and the children visited us here in Moatsville. We had a great time together–talking, laughing, eating, playing spinner dominoes, working picture puzzles, watching a DVD about a potato farmer, etc. Chuck and the boys, Scott (18) and Mark (15), did some muscle work for Grandpa Dick, and Rebecca (12) made peppermint bark with Gramma Fae. It was so good to all be together.”

Faenell’s children, twins, Chuck and Mary Lou Finster graduated from Portland Christian in 1982.

The above picture shows the whole family visiting at “Grand-ma Fae’s” home. Mean-while, MaryLou

was visiting Hawaii with her cousin, Sharyl.

• A NOTE sent from Thera Barber regarding Bob: (It was thought for a time that Bob Barber might have to undergo a by-pass surgery.) “Here’s the update on Bob. The stress test turned out to be false/positive which

means when they did the heart-cath procedure, they found no blockage!! In fact the nurses said they had never seen such good arteries in a man Bob’s age! We are so grateful to the Lord. Thank you all so much for praying. We’ll see you in August.”

• A former PC Drama Alumnus writes: “I am so glad to see that the drama program at Portland Chris-tian continues to be strong. From the days of “Fiddler” to “My Fair Lady” to “Seussical”, each produc-tion has been unique, well-done and showcased wonderful talent.” “While I love the sports program at the school and certainly enjoy bas-ketball, I wonder if the arts are not being promoted enough OR if the school needs to place as much focus on developing the arts as it does the sports program.” “Please know this is not a criticism of the school, rather a question I often ask myself. My husband and I are graduates as are our children and perhaps someday will be our grandchildren as well.” “What was taught to us by the wonderful teachers at Portland Christian has helped shape our thinking for today.”

Alumni at a Mosaic Retreat


Dr. Camille Jamison ‘54Retired SIM Medical Missionary

[email protected]

This has been a good year. I have no chronic pain and have

been able to get around very well. Taking residents to their doctor’s appointments continues to be part of my ministry here as well as being involved in the church I am now attending. I am able to work with some of the older residents of the retirement center where I live help-ing them get to doctors with their medical problems as well as doing laundry for one of the residents here in assisted living.

Dr. Jamison goes on to share her various opportunities for travel this winter visiting friends and fam-ily in California, Portland, Seattle, and Philadelphia. “It is always good to see friends and family.” She goes on to encourage each one of us to have a wonderful year and to always do what the Lord would have us do.

Jean Sealy ‘57 KrugersInternational Fellowship, Africa [email protected]

Last week, my husband John flew to Thailand leaving me home

alone for the first time. I really knew what it meant to rely completely on the Lord. Several of my neighbors, including children, came down with malaria so I was called upon to as-sist in any way I could.

A young man who comes to church every Sunday from Kolang shared his testimony about he and a friend were riding their motor bike on the street and slowed down for a pot hole. A group of thugs jumped them and beat them so severely he thought they would die. He testified how the Lord allowed them a way to get out of the situation. He was attacked riding home from a class at the school right across from our home in the mission compound. “How grateful I am for God’s protec-tion.” “God is so good.”

Sheryl Shields ‘59 Good Sheryl and husband, Gene are volunteer teachers and workers at HOPE HOUSE in Marsing, ID

[email protected]

We have had a very busy fall and winter. Sheryl coached the

girls volley ball team which took 1st place in their league and placed 2nd in their final tournament. Sheryl also works with the various sing-ing groups on the campus. Heart of Hope, a group of six girls, has had opportunity to sing, and share their testimonies all over the valley at many service groups and busi-nesses.

Basket ball season began in January and the girls are going for number one. It has been excit-ing to see the JV program develop, especially the girls team coached by Stephanie, a former resident of HOPE HOUSE, herself, and now at-tending NNU in Nampa.

Thank you for upholding us in prayer at HOPE HOUSE. Many times it is a challenge juggling all the activities that take place here as well as the ups and downs of deal-ing with the emotions of these kids. We both love it here and will prob-ably stay until we get “too old”.

Ginny Bradley ‘61Serving with SIL in Yaounde,

Cameroon, W. [email protected]

Greetings to all of you in your little corners of the earth. This

newsletter was written just after I made my move from Bamenda to the national capital, Yaounde, to assume new responsibilities. I’ve had two months to settle in and am blessed by a large family of colleagues to work with, as well as many opportunities to develop vision and skill. We are blessed in this country with peace and wide-spread interest among churches and language communities to work with.

The title of my new position is Scripture Use Coordinator. My new

responsibilities are to organize the office with all the resources avail-able, supervise fulltime colleagues, including those in the Media and Arts Department, interact with the branch leadership and with CABTAL, keeping teams informed of all the materials and activities avail-able, including the resources that our International Media Depart-ment and Africa Area have available, as well as keeping abreast of what other organizations are doing and what materials are being produced.

God’s Word is taking effect in the region. The Yamba New Testa-ment Listening Groups are changing from the indifference demonstrated in the past to belief as the Word of God is continually shared with them. 169 groups are now listen-ing weekly to the Scriptures. Some of these groups are meeting in the local schools. In the Noni area, the showing of the Jesus Film in the mother tongue is having a major impact on in the community. One chief required his elders to view it. Another invited the literacy coordi-nator to a council meeting and he was able to have a discussion about the Gospel. The team has been praying for traditional rulers. GOD IS ANSWERING.

Gretchen Barter ‘70 Cheney

Gretchen and husband, Don are serving the Lord as

Bible translators with [email protected]

Salvador, an indigenous transla-tor has worked for 20 years on

Scripture translation in Kaiwa. He has been working with expatriate and other Brazilian translators, none of whom speak any local lan-guage other than Portuguese. For a long time he felt he was the only indigenous translator in Brazil. Re-cently he attended a conference on multicultural indigenous translation and discovered 14 others working on translating mother-tongue lan-guages in Brazil. Often during the

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20 years he planned to give up. This meeting reenergized him and made him realize he was not alone.

Several years ago and after many years of work with Jose Cruz in Santa Maria de Jesus, we were able to complete and print the New Testament in the Cakchiquel lan-guage. Now Jose wants to continue on his own beginning with the Psalms and then other Old Testa-ment books. Don is working with Jose to teach him the computer programs that will help him in his task. Another indigenous translator was able to give us the OT transla-tion files he had made of a language similar to Cakchiquel and Don is adapting these for Jose so he can move ahead with this project.

There are so many languages yet not translated into a written form. It is clear that God is raising up indigenous translators around the world who are called to get His Word out to those who have not heard so that they too can hear and be saved.

Dr. Carl Reed ‘71Carl and his wife, Cindy, serve

in Yogyakarta, Indonesia as seminary teachers and leaders

with World [email protected]

Over 200 PIBI churches, pastored by Indonesians are located on

several islands around the coun-try. Amazing in all this is that this, the biggest Muslim nation in the world, is also the nation where very rapid church growth is taking place. There are many challenges in this however, especially for pastor’s wives. Due to distance and limited resources, most Indonesian families in ministry get very little spiritual refreshment or encouragement from outside.

In September, World Venture organized a retreat for the wives of pastors. They came to Central Java from outlying islands. Our goal was to see them come and be refreshed, to receive new resources and to en-hance the effectiveness of their own ministries. Seminars were offered about maintaining healthy families, utilizing their unique talents, how to better do children’s ministry and several counseling workshops.

Frequently pastor’s wives are called upon to handle and solve

messy life problems experienced by the women in their churches. Cindy taught two workshops on how to use their counseling skills to help these people. She also taught them how to effectively help in times of crisis such as illnesses, death, fam-ily conflict and violence, marital unfaithfulness and divorce. She also taught the women how to help their husbands in counseling families fol-lowing both manmade and natural disasters.

Last year Cindy was asked to take over the leadership of the Immanuel Christian University’s floundering Christian Counseling major program. God worked, and the department was revived. Work-ing with Indonesian colleagues, she tried many ways to promote the department. After only two years, the department is now flourishing with 14 students enrolled in the BA in Counseling, program.

Dr. Lori Marvel ‘78 Salierno

Founder and CEO of Celebrate Life International

www.CelebrateLife.org

Believers from four denomina-tions took the Teach One to

Lead One program into their local high school with the end result that 37 people came to know Christ per-sonally. The school superintendent had been desperate. He had gone to area churches pleading on behalf of the at-risk kids in their schools. The churches launched the T1L1 pro-gram, spending 12 weeks with some of the roughest students in the dis-trict. They did a huge service proj-ect, had a blowout graduation and then they hosted a huge party for students and families off campus. The party rewarded the kids for im-proved grades, not skipping school and for completing the semester with changed positive behavior.

As I look back on the last 12 weeks of my own life and leadership, I realize how important it is that I be emotionally healthy, mentally strong and physically well to continue the great mission that God has called CLI to fulfill today’s culture. As many of you know, I have had a per-sonal tsunami in my own life and as a result, I will be taking a three month sabbatical through August seeking the Lord to heal and restore

me at the deepest level. Thank you, all for praying for me and for this great ministry of CLI.

Micah ‘95 and Amy Stellar ‘95 Tuttle

(Serving the Lord in Peru)

Following is a recent interview with Amy Tuttle. “I am excited

to introduce you today to my guest, Amy. An American dwelling in Peru with her husband and family, she is living out the call to shine Christ’s light there. Here is Amy’s story.”

“Peru was nice for a visit, but I would HATE to live there!” Micah confided to me on the flight home from a three week mission trip in 1996. Be careful what challenges you whisper when you think the Lord isn’t listening! Micah and I were 18 and 20 years old, one year raw out of high school and very much longing to be married. Obvi-ously, I did not anticipate a return to Peru, ever. We had more urgent things on our minds. The day after returning to Portland, Oregon, Micah asked my dad for permission to marry me. Four months later, we eagerly began our new life together as properly married folks. Young marrieds-literally.

Recently, Micah had been seriously growing up in the Lord. He had started reading his Bible like nobody’s business, memoriz-ing whole books of the Bible and even becoming known as ‘the Bible boat’ on the job site where he was an electrician. In those early years we frequented a certain Mexican restaurant and became friends with a handful of Mexicans who worked there. Ever eager to start our own evangelistic Bible study, it suddenly occurred to us one evening to ask ‘Miguel’ if he’d be interested…every-thing sort of snowballed from there. He invited his friends, we bought bi-lingual Bibles, several of them trusted Christ, we stumbled along in broken Spanish and 2 years passed. We continued on. We bore 2 chil-dren. We bought a house. Life was exciting, but about to take exhila-rating to a whole new level.

Reflective one evening, Micah stood on the deck of our newly pur-chased home, “I can’t stand the idea that all I’m working so hard to build (wiring multi-million dollar homes) is one day just going to burn up. I want to build something that will last.


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After a year of waiting, wonder-ing, deliberating, in 2001, supported by our local church elders, we moved to Peru for a year. We were supported by our own savings and a handful of people who had faith that somehow God was going to use two youngsters who were shockingly ill-prepared for ministry. We were young and full of hope that in fact God would use us.

That year was hard. Culture, language, two small children-need I say more? But it was GREAT! It was absolutely delicious to trust God so extravagantly. It was life. God taught us so much about trusting Him with everything from finances to extreme traveling (38 hours on 6+ buses between two South American countries with little/no Spanish and two boys in diapers). We were hooked. We couldn’t think of how we’d fit in our previous life after that stretching adventure. We went back home to get things settled and move back indefinitely!

Over the past 9 years, we’ve worked with already established churches, doing TONS of evange-lism, Bible studies, and leading/supporting new church plants. This past year we are taking risks again with our good Lord-in the jungle! We’re planting a church from the ground up! And oh, are we learning painfully precious truths as I write!

It is such a strong passion of ours that people draw near to the Living God. We’d love to share our adventures with you! If you want to know more about our work, please read our blogs or e-mail us! We love making new friends and we love giv-ing glory to God for all He is doing!”

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Dan and Marta Lewis Former teachers at PCS, parents

of 4 PCH grads and Founders and Directors of Light to the Na-tions Ministries in Romania and

Hungary

If you or someone you know would like to spend this summer teach-

ing English in Hungary or Roma-nia, please let us know. There is a tremendous need for English skills, especially among the gypsy youth in Szekelyhid, Romania. Anyone who would like to go would need to be able to follow an elementary English curriculum guide. All the students are Hungarian speaking even in Ro-mania. If you are interested please contact us at [email protected].

Dr. John SchneiderFormer PCH Bible teacher, fa-

ther of 3 PCH grads and Assoc. Dir. of Nursing Home Ministry, Inc.

As we come upon the yearly recognition of National Nursing

Home Week (May 9-16), I want to take the opportunity to share with you some thoughts regarding care centers and the Fifth Command-ment to ‘Honor your Father and Mother’. When children have grown to adulthood and parents have grown old, the emphasis of Scrip-ture shifts from children honoring their parents by obedience, to hon-oring them with financial support.

Their needs are far more than financial, however. Often our elderly find themselves alone and desper-ately in need of companionship,

intellectual stimulation, compas-sionate understanding and love. Often the ideal place for them to live when they can no longer live alone is with an adult child. However in a fallen world, no situation is per-fectly ideal and home care for older parents and relatives may prove more than difficult. Care centers may serve as an alternative to home care, thus playing an important role in the life of Christian families.

Care centers must NEVER be used as a “dumping ground” for older parents or family members no one else wants to care for. Only when absolutely necessary should care centers be used to supplement a broad relationship of family care, motivated by love and honor.

You are encouraged to go to care centers to be a blessing to these dear people but you will always come away doubly blessed.

Shirley WellsFormer Head of the PCS Coun-seling Department, serving in

Israel with Temple Mount Israel

Women on the Wall, is a minis-try of women called to partici-

pate in a strategic prayer ministry inside the JAFFA Gate. “I am a part of the Women on the Wall prayer ministry. These women have heard from the Lord as I have and it sim-ply amazes me how the Lord can bring women from all around the world to meet in Jerusalem to pray.”

“Blessings to you, the school, the many teachers, families and friends who are struggling and out of work. Our Lord knows the path each one of us is taking and will take. Blessings to all from Jerusalem.”

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ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTIONTHE ALL-YEARS REUNION, HELD ANNU-ALLY THE THIRD SATURDAY IN JUNE AT THE SANDY RIVER AIRPARK HAS BEEN CHANGED FOR THIS YEAR. THE HOFF-MAN FAMILY WILL NOT BE AT THE PARK DRUING THESE UPCOMING SUMMER MONTHS, THEREFORE WE NEED TO CHANGE LOCATIONS. BECAUSE THERE IS AN ALL-CLASS EVENT PLANNED AUGUST 13TH WHEN BOB AND THERA BARBER WILL BE IN TOWN, THE ALUMNI BOARD DECIDED TO COMBINE THESE EVENTS.

OPEN HOUSE To Honor Bob and Thera Barber August 13, 2010 4:00pm to 8:00pm at the High School 12425 NE San Rafael Portland, OR 97230 The Alumni Associa-tion will provide table ware, hamburgers and hotdogs, buns, condiments and punch. Please bring a salad or dessert to compli-ment the meal.

JUNE 19: Please see above. The All-Years Reunion has been changed to August 13th

JUNE 25: CLASS 1990 Reunion Dinner at Edgefield McMenamins in Troutdale. Con-tact [email protected] for further infor-mation.

JUNE 26: CLASS 1990 Family BBQ at the High School. 11:00AM TO 4:00PM

JUNE 26: CLASS 1980 Reunion Post-poned. Please contact Linda at [email protected] or 503-786-0613 for an update.

JULY 9-10: CLASS 2000 Reunion. Details TBA. Contact Matt Nichols at: [email protected] for the latest information.

AUGUST 13: ALL-YEARS Reunion at the High School 4-8pm

AUGUST 13: Bob and Thera Barber OPEN HOUSE 4-8pm

AUGUST 13: CLASS of 1970 Reunion at the High School Library, 4-8pm

AUGUST 13: CLASS of 1956-57 Reunion at the High School, Room 25, 4-8pm

AUGUST 14: CLASS of 1970 Reunion on the Mt. Hood Railway. Contact Ruth Anne Graves McCullough at [email protected].

SEPTEMBER 18: CLASS of 1960 Reunion at the High School Library. Contact Rhoda Hager Reid at [email protected].

September 16-18, 2011: Class of 1959 Re-union

UPCOMINGREUNIONSCongratulations to Sherri

James, PCES first grade teacher. Sherri received her Masters of Education in Ad-ministration from Concordia University on May 1, 2010.

Members of the State 2A Champion teams, Aaron Lewis ‘95, Superintendent Bill

Gibbons and others presented a plaque to the administration and basketball athletes at De La Salle for their sportsmanship and friendship as great competitors in the Northwest League. This is De La Salle’s last year in the NW League.

On March 29th a meeting was held for parents of junior high students (grades 6-8) at the high school. Over 65

students expressed strong interest in starting the JH version of Young Life, called Wyldlife. The program for the junior high began in April with a transition into the Young Life program for the 9-12th graders beginning in the fall. Reservations have already been made for 25 6-8th grade students to attend the Washington Family Ranch Young Life Camp in Antelope, Au-gust 8-12th this summer. For information regarding participa-tion in the Young Life program at Portland Christian, call Bob and Beth Mumford at 503-760-6170. The Mumfords are parents of three PC students.

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