When two JECHS alumni decide to marry each other it becomes a mini Jim Elliot reunion! That is what happened on Saturday, June 13 when two members of the Class of 2005 were wed in Elk Grove – bringing together staff, students, families and of course many alumni.

Kyle Hess and Kelly Martens exchanged vows in front of a few hundred friends and family members during a beautiful outside ceremony. Afterwards there was a festive reception with lots of delicious food and great fellowship while celebrating this new couple. 

Kyle has three siblings who attended Jim Elliot – Keith ‘00, Danielle ‘02 and Danae.  His parents Dan & Karen Hess were one of the original families who participated in the founding of Jim Elliot back in 1997.  They moved to Oregon in 2005 and have been greatly missed by the Jim Elliot family.

The Marten’s are a important part of Jim Elliot as Mrs Kathi Martens is our beloved secretary and office manager. Her warm smile greets each an everyone who come into the JECHS office each day. She and her husband Ron have been passionate supporters of this school for many years and we appreciate their time and commitment to this ministry.

Kyle and Kelly will be residing in Linden, CA. Kyle is employed by the University of the Pacific where Kelly will be attending in the fall to receive her Masters Degree in elemenraty education.

Congratulations Kyle & Kelly!

The weather was delightful!

The food was delicious!

The fellowship was divine!

The first (annual?) Jim Elliot Christian High School Picnic Extravaganza and Alumni reunion was a hit! Over a hundred of the JECHS family & friends turned out for this special event including – students, our current families, alumni & their families, staff & board members as well as our future students & families.  We all enjoyed the “picture perfect” day of relaxation, games, conversation, yummy food and renewing old friendships while making new ones!

Thanks to everyone who helped make this day a success.  Enjoy the slide show of this fun event! (if you are reading via email you ned to go to the blog site to see the slide show – www.jechs.wordpress.com  – while you are there  take the time to subscribe to our blog  – you’ll be blessed with all the information, inspiration stories & photos of  the happenings at JECHS)

We would love to hear your comments about this event as well as your input as to if we should make this an annual June event at Jim Elliot?? Do share under the comments or directly to our Development Director at blambdin@jechs.com.

Congratulations to the Class of 2009 who received their diplomas at the graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 6 in the Temple Baptist Worship Center.

There is just something very special about a Jim Elliot Christian High School graduation. It is unique. It is inspiring. It is dignified. It is moving. It is memorable. It is God honoring.  Year after year we hear friends and family exclaiming what a wonderful experience the Jim Elliot graduation ceremony was for them personally.   

A few of our graduation memorable moments – 

• The graduating seniors and staff participating together in a special time of communion before the ceremony
• Our top ranking seniors speaking articulately with amazing stories, insight and motivation
• Honoring our wonderful committed staff  – with special awards going to those who have completed benchmark years
• Presentation of the Jim Elliot Award – the highest honor for a graduating senior
• Beautiful moving musical selections from our talented students
• Photos of each senior from their childhood through senior year being shown on the large screen as they receive their diploma – always bringing laughter, tears and cheers in the warm loving atmosphere that epitomizes the Jim Elliot family
• The Lord being glorified and honored throughout the entire event – in every prayer, speech, comment and presentation

This slide presentation captures a portion of the graduation experience.

Please leave your comments or thoughts about the JECHS graduation and congratulations to the graduates!

Jim Elliot students continue to shine and be honored throughout the community.

Two more of our seniors were recently chosen as Teen of the Month and their accomplishments were highlighted in the Lodi News Sentinel. (Travis Dodd was chosen last fall – you can read his accolades here)

Here are the news articles for Lizzie Oliver – March Teen of the Month and Elizabeth Theisen – April Teen of the Month as they appeared in the Lodi paper.

Lizzie Oliver, a senior at Jim Elliot Christian High School, has been selected as Teen of the Month for March by the Lodi Youth Commission.

Oliver has a 3.98 grade-point average and is on the varsity volleyball and basketball teams. She serves as president of the California Scholarship Federation, publicist for the Interact Club and student body secretary for the student council. She is participating in the spring musical and was nominated for the homecoming court. She is also part of the servant leaders at Bethel Open Bible Church in the Youth Leadership Program.

She enjoys reading, especially historical fiction; spending time with friends and family; and going on short-term missions with her youth group to San Francisco and Mexico.

Oliver lives with her mother, Alyssa, father, Randal, older sister, Lauren, and younger sister, Sami. She feels her parents have always supported all of her dreams and have given her the tools for success. She considers her sisters her friends, who she has been able to joke and laugh with.

Following graduation, she plans on attending Pepperdine University, where she will major in political science. She will then pursue her master’s degree in public policy and a law degree in a joint degree program, splitting her time between Pepperdine’s Law School and the School of Public Policy. Oliver hopes to one day work in Washington, D.C.

 

Elizabeth Thiesen, a senior at Jim Elliot Christian High School, has been selected as Teen of the Month for April by the Lodi Youth Commission.

Thiesen has a 4.10 grade-point average and serves as the Interact Club president and senior class president. She is a member of the California Scholarship Federation, cross country team and varsity basketball. She is also involved in the school play, the school worship team, the Temple Baptist Church multimedia team and serves as the church youth worship leader.

 

 

 

She enjoys singing, playing guitar, reading books about historic events, exercising and spending time with friends. Thiesen lives with her parents. She says they have raised her to have solid Christian morals and have always been supportive.

Following graduation, she plans on attending Biola University to participate in the Torrey Honors Institute program and major in political science or history. She hopes to become involved in the government, either militarily or politically, to help restore the system to the way it was when the founding fathers established the American nation on Biblical principles.

Congratulations to these two students from all of us at JECHS

Our live auction was very lively, fun and exciting and it raised over $20,000 during Denim, Diamonds & Dreams!

We truly appreciate all those who participated in the live auction – a big thank you to our donors and the following winners -

•   Bill Alexander was the winner of a week in Hawaii October 24-31. He and his family will enjoy a vacation in the beautiful home of Chris & Carrie Elliot on the Island of Oahu.   Winning Bid: $875
• We auctioned off  two different “Week In Tahoe” vacations at a distinctive Lakefront Condo on the beautiful and exclusive Marla Bay in South Lake Tahoe!  The winners will enjoy over 2,000 square feet of lakefront living space in a relaxed environment that includes an inviting game room, 4 bedrooms (sleeps nine) and 3 full bathrooms.  The week of  May 19-25 went to the Vigil family for $800 and the week of  June 2-8  was won by the Hausuaer family for $2,300

 

• What parent of a senior wouldn’t want the front row RESERVED just for them at the 2009 graduation ceremony (seats 8-10 people)  No showing up hours early for graduation to reserve a seat, get the best photo opportunities and no worries about getting seats together for their family & friends.  This is a unique opportunity for a special family with  graduating senior!  We ended up auctioning off two front rows  for $300 each to Don & Peggy Walters (Senior graduating – Kelsy Walters) and to Steve & Penny Theisen(Senior graduating – Elizabeth Theisen)

 

Penny & Steve celebrate their winning bid!

 Ryan and Beth Voorhees once again were the winning bidders for the Dinner party for six on Mokelumne River at the lovely home of Don & Peggy Walters.  They will get to enjoy a relaxing summer evening with some close friends that will include a patio boat cruise with appetizers and a gourmet meal by candlelight.   Winning Bid: $550 Thank you Ryan & Beth!

 

 

• The Week in Washington DC  created quite a “bidding war” with several of the participants bidding via cell phone from various places like Yosemite and Utah!  But the ultimate winners were – Pat & Vicki Gotelli who along with their boys will enjoy a week at the beautiful home of a Virginia native Gloria Borden in Lorton just a short drive from Washington D.C. and minutes from the Metro.  They can spend a week touring our nations capitol and the beautiful countryside of Virginia while staying in an inviting atmosphere with true southern hospitality and a delicious breakfast served each morning.   The winning bid: $2,000  Thank you, thank you  Pat & Vicki!

 Cookie of the month- 1 batch of delicious homemade cookies delivered to you monthly for a year… mmmmm  mmmmm  good! Made by the famous JECHS baker – Karen Liu . This popular auction item went to Lori Blackwell for $300.  Lori – enjoy and thank you for supporting JECHS!

Lori with her dear friend, Kathi Martens

 The  JECHS Senior Class of 2009 Quilt – hand made by Brenda Richards had all the seniors faces  & names embroidered on it. Don Walters won this auction item with the highest bid of $300.  Thank you Don!

Don Walters is happy with his winnings at the auction!

 

Pancake Breakfast for ten with Mr Couchman ended up going to two lucky winners for $450 each – Steve Fetzer and Tarianne Cottonwho will each enjoy a famous homemade pancake breakfast in their homes, prepared and served by our very own awesome & amazing principal.  Linda Couchman will be adding her famous fruit toppings! Thank you Fetzers & Cottons!

Principal for the day- wouldn’t you just love to be in charge for just a day? Well our winning bidder is looking forward to being principal for the day!  Jana Flaig-Brummett out bid the competition and won this item for $500. Thank you Jana!

Jana Flaig-Brummett

The biggest and most amazing auction item of the evening ended up being  A five course gourmet dinner for 6 served in your own home by chef Scott Fichtner (Deputy District Attorney in Stockton)  After much back and forth bidding,  Scott graciously agreed to do two dinners and they both ended up being sold for $4,000.   Last years winners of this item – John & Stacy Lippertdecided to come back for a second round winning one of the dinners and Doug & Elsa Talbert were the other winners of this amazing gourmet experience.  Both these couples and their blessed friends will be treated to a delicios, enjoyable and memorable evening.   Thank you to the Lipperts and Talberts for their awesome support of Jim Elliot!

Doug Talbert after purchasing the gourmet dinner

We had two BIG winners of this HOT item –  Blossoms by Lisa  – a monthly floral bouquet  for an entire year!  Bill Alexander and Don Walters are sure to have happy wives as they receive these beautiful unique arrangements all year long.  Winning Bids: $750 each.  Thank you so much Bill & Don! (and congratulations Peggy & Michelle!)

Shoes by Chiles was a hit!  Chiles Wilson has designed and made over 200 shoes and he agreed not only to auction off one but two pairs at the fundraiser. The winners with the highest bid of $300 – thank you to  David Couchman and Sandy Huber.

Mr Couchman signing the auction bid sheet for Chile’s shoes

What was in Mr Hathorn’s Homeroom Basket?

Congratulations to the winners of the Homeroom Basket Challenge – Mr. Jon Hathorn’s class! They will be treated to a pizza lunch, ice cream social and free dress day on Wednesday, May 20.

A gourmet dinner for 10 served by Jim Elliot’s very own student council.  Stu Co will  prepare and serve a dinner of your choice in the orchard for up to 10 of your friends.  Dinner to take place between June 1-22. 

 Basket Sold to Ruth Mulrooney & Jerry Crutchfield for $1,000

The other top two selling homeroom baskets  were:

Mr Lambdin’s Homeroom Basket

The Ultimate “Time Out”

• $50.00 gift card to Bass Pro Shops
• 60 min. Reflexology Session (Amazing, out of the box, foot rub)
• $20.00 gift certificate to “Faime” Nails
• $65.00/45 min. Golf Lesson with Golf Pro Perry Manley
• One set of Golf clubs, personally sized, for the winner
• A lunch/casual dinner for two at De Grande’s Cafe
• An “up close & personal” day with the Oakland A’s, A’s team Chaplain Donnie Moore, & Dan Lambdin.  Be on the field during batting practice.  Receive signed baseball from your favorite player 2 tickets to a night game. (Does not include Sunday game)

Basket sold for $800  to Mike & Shelly Sherman

Mrs Jine’s Homeroom Basket

Lake Tahoe Extravaganza -One week  – June 7 -14 – in beautiful Lake Tahoe in a condo that sleeps four at Kingsbury Crossing.  Basket also includes $20 gas card, map of tahoe area, s’more kit, squirt guns, CD, DVD and snacks!

Basket Sold for $700 to Scott & Sheri Scofield

A big thank you to all our homeroom teachers and the student body who participated in our homeroom basket challenge!

We want to thank each and everyone of our JECHS staff  for their ongoing support of this school and ministry. Besides teaching, grading papers and completing lesson plans they share duties on campus in the parking lot and lunchroom, they attend meetings, go to professional conferences, attend camp, write reports, coach teams, chaperone events, counsel students, serve as class advisors, attend athletic events and student activities, meet with students outside class time, write letters of recommendations, return phone calls and emails, post grades on Renweb, grade papers and more papers and more papers often until late into the evening.  They do all this and more while making 30% less income with far fewer benefits than their counterparts in the local public schools. (the starting salary a JECHS is $15,000 – $20,000 less than the surrounding school districts)

And believe it or not they still love what they do!  Many staff even went the extra mile with supporting our recent fundraiser in various ways.  A special thank you to the following staff members -

Michelle Sallee -  designed all of our promotional materials and auction programs, personally donated a gift certificate from her photography business for our auction and purchased a ticket to support and attend this event.

Carrie Fox – led the decoration committee in creating an amazing festive atmosphere, donated a basket and gift certificate from her personal interior design business - ”A Foxy Touch” stayed up for hours the evening prior to the event to create centerpieces, worked all day decorating the room, attended and supported the event that evening.

David Couchman - personally sponsored a table at the event, donated his time and talent for the live auction item – Pancakes with the Principal and purchased “Shoes by Chiles”.

Dottie Henry personally donated several silent auction items and filled and hosted an entire table with potential JECHS supporters at the auction.

Kathi Martens - donated many of the items needed for the decorations, sold tickets, as well as supporting and attending the event and working as a cashier.

Marlene Weigum - worked hard sending out receipts to hundreds of businesses, tracking income & expenses and overseeing the cashiers and checkout at the event.

Cindy Jines - personally donated a week at her Lake Tahoe condo for the auction as well as supporting and attending the fundraiser.

Mike Tackett - along with his ceramics class created hundreds of designer napkin rings to be used at the event.

Sherrolyn Elmore - who came and directed the students as they performed a scene from Beauty & the Beast.

Penny Theisen who purchased tickets in support of the event and attended with her husband. (and purchased several auction items!)

Steve Stow - who volunteered to work the evening of the event.

Dan Lambdin – who worked for weeks in preparation of the event, solicited table sponsorships, donated a silent auction basket, worked the day of the event helping with set up, running sound and clean up as well as supporting the fund raiser by purchasing tickets to attend the event.

Tom Bray, Kathy Elliott, Judy Rajala for supporting the fundraiser with their attendance that evening.

Please take the time to thank all of our teachers and staff members for giving of themselves so faithfully to the school and students.  Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week and may be the perfect opportunity to do just that!

A huge thank you for each of our JECHS current parents who participated by donating of their time, talent and treasure to our annual dinner auction fundraiser. 

The money raised supplements every student who attends Jim Elliot – as the cost of running a private Christian school exceeds the price charged for tuition.  Everyone who has a student at JECHS has personally benefited financially from this as well as other fundraisers. Over half  (51%) of our current parents participated in this fundraiser by either donating or soliciting donations of auction items, volunteering their time to help with the event, purchasing tickets, sponsoring a table or making a contribution.  Many of those parents were involved in every possible way!

Thank you to the following current Jim Elliot families:

• Mark & Marilyn Arvin
• Jack & LeAnn Barclay
• Frank & Jana Brummett-Flaig
• Tim & Brenda Buhrkhul
• Fred & Sallee Carvalho
• Roy & Sandra Collins
• Guy & Tarianne Cotton
• Brad & Lisa Coussons
• Paul & Lori Cowden
• Jerry & Teri Crutchfield
• Steve & Roberta Dodd
• Richard & Becki Elliot
• Bob & Kathy Elliott
• Steve & Sherrolyn Elmore
• Jason & Stacie Epling
• Steve & Arlene Fetzer
• Grant & Janyce Fletcher
• Stephanie Fong
• Dan & Marvis Gatto
• Mike & Debbie Georguson
• Reinold & Vivian Giesbrecht
• Kevin & Dianne Goanns
• David & Martha Gonzales
• Frank & Debbie Goosens
• Pat & Vicki Gotelli
• David & Patrice Gran
• Sean & Sharon Greene
• Rick & Pam Grenz
• Paul & Jeannette Gross
• Roy & Kelly Hale
• Ed & Lori Han
• Travis & Vicki Hausauer
• Debra Hensley
• Terry & Pat Hickey
• Jimmy & Jeanine Hicks
• Kevin & Sandy Huber
• Bill & Cathy Huckaby
• Mark & Denise Huft
• Kerry & Kim Kishi
• Daniel & Vasuhi Klinker
• Dan & Beth Lambdin
• Eric & Paula Leary
• Daniel & Judy Lewis
• John & Stacy Lippert
• Maurice & Karen Lui
• Perry & Debbie Manley
• Sal & Monica Martinez
• Bob & Janine McKinnon
• Donnie & Cindy Moore
• Jim & Ruth Mulrooney
• David & Beth Neal
• Willys & Janet Nitschke
• Dave & Kelly Nuss
• Randall & Alyssa Oliver
• Aaron & Kristi Passey
• Thomas & Diana Pitman
• Brenda Richards
• Jerry & Melissa Riley
• Felipe & Tracy Rodriguez
• Frank & Debbie Ruiz
• Frank & Amber Schmidig
• Scott & Sheri Scofield
• Brian Siken
• Dan & Debbie Smith
• Danny & Janet Stanley
• Doug & Elsa Talbert
• Mark  & Kris Talley
• Steve & Penny Theisen
• Sam & Jeanette Towne
• Rob & Katy Treat
• Louise Tunquist
• Steve & Maria VanMeter
• David & Carole Vaughn
• Jose & Diana Vega
• Larry & Jessie Vickers
• Ryan & Beth Voorhees
• Steve & Jane Wall
• Don & Peggy Walters
• Robert & Nina Ward
• John & Jill Welsh
• Jeff & Suzie Wick
• Mike & Vickie Williams
• Chiles & Leslie Wilson
• James & Pat Woodson

We would love to see the number of our parent participation increase to close to 100%.  It doesn’t take much to be a part and it is not too late.  If you would like to donate to this year’s auction – even a small donation of $10, $20 or $30 would add to our totals raised for the  event, be tax deductible and increase our percentage of parent participation.  Just click here – Support JECHS Denim Diamonds & Dreams -  to make an online secure donation or drop a check off in the school office.  Be sure to identify that it is for Denim, Diamonds & Dreams.

 

Please let us know if you as a parent participated through volunteering your time, making a donation, attending the auction or donating an auction item. (especially if you turned in an auction item to the school without your name on the form) We regret inadvertently leaving anyone off this list and would love to add your name to the parents who participated. (and increase our percentages)

The following businesses donated auction items for Denim, Diamonds & Dreams.  Be sure to patronize these supporters of JECHS and tell them how much you appreciate their donation to Elliot.

• Squeeze Inn Burgers
• Davids New York Pizza (Lincoln Center)
• The Butcher Shoppe
• Village Coffee Shop
• Shang Ra La
• DeVinci’s
• Pietro’s
• Angelo’s Mexican Restaurant
• Synowiski’s Jewel Box
• Rubio’s
• JT Cabintree
• Angelina’s
• Woodbridge Florist
• Formal Connection
• DADs Hot Dogs
• Stage Two
• Campbells in the Village
• Boggiano’s
• Velez Salon
• House of Coffees
• David Neal, DDS
• Styles
• Nuss Farms
• Dr Robert Bader, Chiropractor
• A Foxy Touch
• OG Packing
• Brodie Jayne
• Cellar Art Studio
• Gold Canyon Baskets – Nicole Casillas
• Tunquist Farm
• Top Hat Dance Academy
• Memories for the Making
• Juice it Up – Lodi
• Trent Marsh, Golf Pro
• Shady Oaks Farm
• Grand Island Mansion
• Ryde Hotel
• Ocean Avenue Bed & Bath
• Taste of Heaven
• Starbucks (Kettleman & Lower Sac)
• Burton’s Shoes
• Grupe Commercial Company
• Lodi Play & Trade
• Miller Pacific Inc
• Lexington Waterfront Hotel
• Campbell Creek Gang
• Sierra Adventure Outfitters
• Kristen Duffy Photography
• Planet Beach – Stockton
• Creative Memories – Rachel Fichtner (Lodi), Joyce Lee (Stockton)
• Jessies Grove Winery
• The Dermal Clinic
• Second Hand Rose
• Sallee Photography
• Gary Sallee – Woodcraft
• Chili’s – Lodi
• Wine & Roses
• J & J Pro Image
• Lowes
• Fashion Safari
• Lodi Barber
• Danz Jewelers
• Vine & Branches Christian Bookstore
• Stroller Strides
• Willow Tree/Someplace Special
• Clear the Clutter
• Gary’s Country Deli & Cafe
• Bennett Realtors
• Miracle Body Auto Painting
• Romano’s Macaroni Grill
• Old Spaghetti Factory
• Scooters
• Paul’s Cleaners – Stockton
• Blossoms by Lisa
• Lodi Sporting Goods
• Dr Delu, Chiropractor
• Tamara Clausson, DDS
• Alamo Alarm Company
• Kerry Suess – RE/Max Gold
• Dancing Fox Winery & Bakery
• Larry Peters Eagle Roofing
• Minco Home Inspection
• Pret
• Cut the Mustard
• A-1 Exterminators
• Saigon Grill
• Coldstone Creamery – Lodi
• Protech Inspection Service
• Flower Cart
• Colligere Farm Management
• Feed & Fuel
• Lodi Beer Company
• Moo Moo’s Burger Barn
• Capitol Mortgage – Christie Munson
• Aloha Pools – Brian Meier
• Weigum’s Nursery
• Tin Roof Cafe
• Crown Enterprises
• Red Carpet Studio
• Janessa Meier – hairstylist

Please inform us if we have left off any of our business donors.  We want to thank & recognize them.

We couldn’t pull off  our annual dinner auction without the help of a myriad of volunteers – parents, students, staff as well as friends of JECHS put in countless hours towards making Denim, Diamonds & Dreams the success it was. Because of their hard work & dedication we were able to raise over $35,000 for the school. Please join us in thanking -

Teri & Jerry Crutchfield -  Teri helped in numerous ways, recruiting & coordinating volunteers, collecting baskets each day from the school office, soliciting donations and volunteering the night of the event.  Her family donated the use of their home to store the hundreds of donated items and her and husband Jerry loaded and transported all the auction items to the Lexington Hotel.

Peggy Walters as always lent her wisdom, expertise and hard work to this event.  Besides her work in planning and organizing she also recruited and coordinated volunteers to help during the event and worked tirelessly throughout the evening from check in to silent auction to check out. 

Monica Martinez  spent countless hours getting our auction items ready to sell – filling out bid sheets, creating certificates, doing basket presentation & set up, working silent auction tables, check out and was the last volunteer to leave the event after cleaning up. She also helped to solicit numerous donations, helped with marketing of the event and was our ambassador to the local private Christian feeder schools.

Sandy Musgrave used her bookkeeping and computer skills to track all 160+ of our auction items.  Since the majority of the donations came in the last 10 days she worked ’round the clock to get them all inputted so that bid sheets could be prepared.  Her work is not over as she is inputting our sales amounts for each item as well as preparing labels for thank you notes.

Michelle Sallee put her amazing artistic and graphic design talent  to work by designing all of our materials.  She created an attractive design for the theme Denim, Diamonds & Dreams and then created a banner, flyer’s, posters, tickets and our beautiful 20 page color program for the auction. All this was done free of charge and  ”after hours” as the JECHS computer, journalism & yearbook teacher.  She also put together our video highlight of JECHS shown at the auction.

Carrie Fox not only is a fabulous guidance counselor at Elliot but she is also a talented decorator and took the lead in creating our table decorations that included centerpieces, “dream” cards (compiled by Vasuhi Klinker) and napkin rings (created byMike Tackett’s ceramics class).  Her team of volunteers included Janyce Fletcher, Nina Ward, Kelly Hale,  Amber Schmidig, Tracy Rodriguez & Rachel Fichtner)

Jeanine Hicks, Sheri Scofield & Debbie Manley led the way in soliciting several donations for our silent auction.

Using their creative abilities to create attractive baskets (many came in already looking lovely – thank you to those who donated “ready to go” baskets) were – Tarianne Cotton, Becky Elliot, Teri Crutchfield, Jeanette Towne, Sandy Huber, Monica Martinez, Carrie Elliott and a couple of our grandmothers.

Helping out with phone calling was Carrie Elliott, Rachel Fichtner, Lori Cowden, Allysa Oliver & Monica Martinez

Jeanette Towne took care of all of our press releases to all local newspapers and magazines.

Jim Johnson who lent his photography talents to the event by coming and taking candid photos throughout the evening.

Carrie Elliott and Shelly Sherman were amazing as they solicited donations for auction items (over 40!), sold tickets (filled 3 tables) and asked for donations ($1500) during the final weeks leading up to the event.  There passion, enthusiasm and hard work was simply unbelievable (and they are not even JECHS parents….yet).

The night of the event we had many volunteers working hard in many areas to be sure everything got done – from set up, greeting, check in and security to silent auction hostesses, check out and clean up.  Besides most of those already listed we also were blessed to have:

• Dianne Goans
• Roberta Dodd
• Sam Towne
• Sal Martinez
• Kathi Martens
• Marlene & Jeff Weigum
• Dan Lambdin
• Steve Stow
• Louise Tunquist
• Sheri Scofield

Student Volunteers

• Eliya Hooks
• Kelsey Walters
• Lizzie Oliver
• Emily Nitschke
• Kristen Lambdin
• Amy Lambdin
• Ana Martinez
• Katie Anema
• Luke Flaig-Brummet
• Nathan Yepez
• Kenny Talbot
• Casey Carpenter
• Eli Scofield
• Nick  Tholl
• Chiles Wilson

We cannot thank enough our SPECTACULAR auctioneer – Jim Mulrooney - who did another fabulous job at bringing in over $22,000 in live auction donations.  He is always entertaining, upbeat, fun and outstanding at what he does.  Jim is a professional auctioneer but has volunteered his time and talent for the past 10 years of Jim Elliot auctions.  Thank you does not seem like enough.

The evening was topped off by several individuals who shared their heart, passion & enthusiasm for Jim Elliot.  Thank you for taking the time to prepare and for sharing so eloquently:

• Student Body President – Travis Dodd
• Current Parent – Jeannette Gross
• Alumni – Jeremy Duncan & Mark Thomas
• Grandparent – Becky Octave

Thank you to our drama students under the direction of Sherrolyn Elmore, who came and performed a scene from Beauty & the Beast

• Justine Chacon
• Cameron Elmore
• Elizabeth Theisen
• Charity King
• Rachel Grenz

We hope that we included everyone who volunteered their time to help with the annual dinner auction. As you can see it takes dozens of volunteers to pull off an event of this magnitude.  Our hope an prayer is that in upcoming years we will have even more parents, students, grandparents, alumni and future parents lend a helping hand and lighten the load.  If you are interested in volunteering with fundraising events, please contact Director of Development, Beth Lambdin at 209-518-4016.

 

PS – If we left anyone off our list that should be recognized, please let us know.

Verve Networks

JECHS is extremely grateful to the families and local businesses who sponsored a table at our recent dinner auction fundraiser – Denim, Diamonds & Dreams.  We are very appreciative of their support of our school as well as their help in underwriting this successful event. For their sponsorship they received a reserved table for 8, a tax deductible receipt and recognition in our auction program.

Our 2009 sponsors were:

Chase Chevrolet

The Hausauer Family

Synectic

Dr. Bob & Jamie Howen

Guy & Tarianne Cotton

The Schwemley Family

From the Farm

San Joaquin Electric

Dr. Steve & Jane Wall

David & Linda Couchman

Bennett Realtors (sponsored 2 tables)

M & R Metal Sales

Don & Peggy Walters

Steve & Arlene Fetzer

Jim & Sandy Musgrave

Paul & Jeannette Gross