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1 Fall 2010 Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian Rehoboth, A Place fo Us Wite D. James Schaap has witten a book on Rehoboth families that will be eleased mid-novembe. Evey family has a stoy to tell, a unique tale of how they found thei way in the wold. With an enollment of 489 students epesenting 321 families this yea, thee ae 321 stoies woth telling. Rehoboth was pivileged to have an outstanding wite spend time with some of its families leading to an album of Rehoboth family stoies. In this book, titled Rehoboth, A Place fo Us, twelve families-some Native Ameican, some Anglo-tell how they found a vey special place at Rehoboth Chistian School. Rehoboth s oots un deep in the Native community, but those oots also daw fom the people of the Chistian Refomed Chuch. These stoies, as told to wite James C. Schaap, show how the lives of vey diffeent people became intetwined in the ed soil and sheep-gazed hills of New Mexico. Afte witing the book, Schaap made a vey inteesting obsevation. He wote: If one does any study whatsoeve of denominational ministies on U.S. esevations and Canadian eseves, my guess is that finding a successful one that has lasted fo 100 yeas-- and one which has basically stayed in the same hands of a single, small denomination -- would be difficult, if not impossible. I may be the only peson in the denomination to say it, but I honestly believe that Chistian Refomed Chuch s Rehoboth effots- -and those effots haven t been without thei shae of immense poblems- -ae not only notewothy, but nigh unto incedible. Families featued in each chapte ae: 1. Vey Much at Home: Louise and Bennie Musket 2. Pay Without Ceasing: Elizabeth Bitsie Jones 3. The Beauty Way: Ed and Doothy Calisle 4. Those Who Couldn t Stay Away: Jacob and Isabel Kamps and Sons 5. The Spial Staicase: Ted and Evelyn Chales 6. Life with the Good Shephed: Tommie and Nancy Tso 7. Tibal Leade, Tibal Elde: Ed T. Begay 8. The Holtsoi Heat: Floa Johnson, May Holtsoi, and Flo Baton 9. Citizens of the Kingdom: John T. and Emily J. Lee 10. Open Doo fo One Hunded Yeas: The Bossches 11. Women of Conviction: Claa Laube and Kaen Laube Schell 12. In the Family of God: Hebet F. White To Ode: Rehoboth, A Place fo Us will be available fo puchase in mid-novembe, but odes can be made now. The pice is $ Simply call contact Faith Alive Chistian Resouces at o sales@faithaliveesouces.og o visit Afte Decembe 1, the book will be available in the Rehoboth Administation building.

2 Incease in Numbes A Testimony to God s Faithfulness R By: Caol Beme-Bennett, Inteim Managing Diecto ehoboth is flouishing in the land just as ou namesake vese pomises (Genesis 26:22), God is blessing Rehoboth with many childen this yea. We have seen an oveall incease of almost 50 students fo the new school yea, By the time we count up the new additions thoughout the gades and include the youngstes just stating school fo the fist time in Pe-K and Kindegaten, we have 130 new students. This temendous oveflow has caused some ovecowding and need to shift classoom spaces aound. We added a thid section of 4th/5th gade and a new teache. We have a couple of classooms without enough seats and thee ae epots of students having to sit at the teache s desk o on the windowsills. But, we don t mind. We say, Let the little childen come. We hope to offe Chistian education to the families who desie it, and one way o anothe, God povides. Last sping, we began paying fo an incease of 20 students and took a step of faith to ceate a budget based on 430 students. The LORD not only answeed that paye, He did moe than we deamed and ou enollment now stands at 489 the lagest eve! And, God blesses us in the pocess. Read on to hea the stoies and enthusiasm of paents and students new to Rehoboth. They have caught a glimpse of the diffeence a Chistian education makes, they tell stoies of ou beautiful divesity, and they ae quickly becoming ou good will ambassados. The fifty new students that we have been so blessed with this yea have come fom many diffeent cultues, backgounds, and walks of life. Hee is what they have to say about thei Rehoboth expeience. The students at Rehoboth teat each othe with love and espect. The teaches show that they cae about the students and that they have faith in them and want to help them each thei goals. Eveything they talk about they elate to God. Since being hee, I have seen my attitude towad God changing as well. I used to blame Him fo a lot of the difficulties I had to go though, but now I want to get close to Him. I undestand that what He says is the ight way to live. -Daysah Chino, 9th gade 2 My family is poud of me because my gades have been going up since I ve come to Rehoboth. I ve been woking hade. The teaches assist you when you need it and help you to undestand things. -Samantha Duan, 6th gade The teaches and staff at Rehoboth believe in paye. Since attending my daughte ealizes moe the impotance of that, and is often the fist one to encouage ou family to pay. Samantha seems to be moe independent, woks hade, and is happy to go to school. -Angela Aviso (Mothe of Samantha Duan) Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian

3 Ya at eeh; blessings and geetings to all of you! As the Inteim Managing Diecto of Rehoboth Chistian School, I am honoed to seve my Savio, Jesus Chist at Rehoboth. This is a big yea fo Rehoboth Chistian School. Not only do we have a ecod numbe of students enolled and new pogams in Agicultue, the Pond, and Afte School, we also ae ceating a new stategic plan, evising Social Studies and Bible cuiculum, mapping ou cuiculum on new softwae, and pepaing fo a site-team visit fo Chistian Schools Intenational acceditation. Management Team Repots: I am thankful fo my teammates in this endeavo Jeff Banaszak, Diecto of Finance and Opeations and Rick VanTil, Diecto of Advancement. The othe membes of ou administation also ae leading Rehoboth to accomplish ou big vision and mission. Loetta Smith, Diecto of Admissions, is a faithful communicato with ou paents; Dee Logteman, High School Pincipal, challenges us to ethink school; Jim Holweda, Elementay and Middle School Pincipal, is dedicated to the school and willingly seves whee we need him most; Bob Ippel, Diecto of Afte School and Summe Pogamming, continues to einvent himself and the pogam to best meet the needs of ou leanes; and Jeff Engbes, Athletic Diecto, finds ways to utilize ou new Spots and Fitness Cente to bing multitudes of new people onto the Rehoboth campus. Ou school theme is fom I Cointhians 13, These thee emain, Faith, Hope, and Love. And the geatest of these is Love. We stand fim in ou Chistian faith, full of hope based on God s pomises, and eady to love abundantly. Thanks to the faithful suppot of ou paents and donos, Rehoboth ended the ecent fiscal yea with a modest cash suplus. Moe tuition aid than planned was povided to ou families this past yea due to a decease in oveall family income and the local economy. Howeve, God was faithful and povided almost the exact same amount we needed in new contibutions. Ou enollment numbes ae healthy and gadually climbing. The High School and Elementay gades ae full and have waiting lists. The Middle School is getting close to capacity. We ae blessed to have such faithful Chistian families in this aea who eally appeciate the oppotunity to send thei childen to a Chistian school like Rehoboth. We continue to be challenged to aise the funds fo capital needs, such as new school buses and epais to ou 108 yea old campus. But based on the ecent faithfulness of ou paents and donos we ae confident that God will povide fo all ou needs. Thanks to you, we have completed a successful school yea. Now you advancement team is at wok on this new school yea, God has blessed us with this big incease in students at a time when the economy is still lagging, especially in ou aea of the county. So not only do ou students and families need paye, but Rehoboth needs you payes. Yes paye is what we do in Advancement as we face inceasing financial needs. Just as we have moe students than eve, we will now have to aise moe tuition assistance than eve. Caol Beme-Bennett Inteim Managing Diecto Jeff Banaszak Diecto of Finance & Opeations As God has done moe than we could have imagined, we now look to ou futue with geat hope and excitement. We envision a new playgound that is safe and encouages ceative play. We think of a new high school that not only doesn t leak o have cacks thoughout, but launches ou students into 21st centuy leaning. We know that thee ae countless ways to make Rehoboth Rick VanTil, S. Diecto of Advancement even geate, and we challenge ouselves to make them happen. Even as the economy dives those in povety deepe into hadship and those with elative wealth to take moe caution in thei giving, we do all of this in faithful sevice to ou Savio. P.O. Box 41 Rehoboth, NM

4 Pond and Geenhouse Pogam Updates POND This sping we eceived an encouaging amount of suppot fo ou new geenhouse pogam. Since that time, we have been able to use the funds eceived to launch and expand both ou pond and geenhouse pogams. Rehoboth wants to thank you fo you geneous suppot and let you know how you contibutions have been used to benefit the 489 students at Rehoboth Chistian School. Fo yeas the Rehoboth pond sat untouched, letting cattails invade, and its only visitos wee the migating bids. But duing the fall of 2008, the atesian well-fed pond was evived and has now become a valuable outdoo classoom fo Rehoboth students. students also keep up the day-to-day maintenance of the pond. In esponse to being involved in physical labo by the pond, sophomoe, Anthony Buke, says, We use ou minds all day in the classoom. It is now good to use ou hands and wok. Though the use of voluntee goups and ou students, the physical appeaance of the pond has changed significantly since that time. Tails have been expanded to the geenhouse and futue outdoo classoom, fish have been added to the pond, and bidges have been built ove the dainage unoff. But the biggest change in appeaance is the addition of students to this outdoo envionment. The science depatment at Rehoboth Chistian School has incopoated the pond into all aspects of leaning. This pond offes students and the community a way to take cae of the ceation God has blessed us with. Students ae able to wok on life skills of had wok and commitment, including pactical skills of how to use a shovel and wheel baow; and emove dead limbs of tees. Ultimately, students ae leaning how to be good stewads of the land God has entusted us with. The pond also acts as a geen space to dangle you feet in the wate while woking on homewok o a tanquil place to ead and obseve. The pond is a place fo investigative science fo students in all gades. Middle school students ae exploing the diffeent attibutes of the pond and investigating the cause of these chaacteistics though studying the soil and wate of the ecosystem. The younge students use the pond to lean about obsevation and change, while the high school biology students study micoscopic life in this hands-on, outdoo classoom. Rehoboth students have taken owneship fo the impovement to the pond, fom tail cleaing to tee timming and bidge building. The The new pond cuiculum is advancing science at Rehoboth Chistian School. Students ae ceating an aea whee they can have fun, exploe, and discove the diffeent pats of God s wondeful ceation and how to be good stewads of the land though cultivating native ecosystems. Chis Huizinga, middle school science teache and leade of the pond poject, says, This pond offes students and the community a way to take cae of the ceation God has blessed us with. We can use this poject in many beneficial ways; positively affecting the envionment, the ways we lean, and ou attitudes towad the land. See how you can get involved and continue to advance this poject at: 4 Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian

5 GREENHOUSE In the sping the idea of a geenhouse cuiculum on Rehoboth s campus was a mee thought, but thanks to the geneous suppot of the Rehoboth suppotes, ou geenhouse poject has made geat pogess. The fist phase in the building pocess is pepaing the land fo the futue geenhouses. Students in the new Hoticultual class have taken an active ole in pepaation by gading the land and amending the soil with manue fom Rehoboth families fams. Students have planted sage and abbit bush, as well. The hoop house (ou geenhouse model) is not up yet; but the constuction of the hoop house is only one pat of the poject. The Hoticultue class has been doing extensive eseach on how to lay out a fam to pepae fo the building pocess. Also, they ae eseaching which cops typically gow well in the high deset envionment and with what soil, so they can best use thei new geenhouse. Students ae physically leaning how to pepae fo the geenhouse, too. Both the Hoticultue and Woodshop classes ae laboing daily to see this poject succeed. They have laid out the house, dug dainage ditches, built gates, and constucted the wooden end walls fo the hoop house. The new cuiculum hopes to povide an expeiential leaning envionment whee students can expeiment with ideas and shae with othes in the community what they have leaned. We hope to povide a demonstation fam whee diffeent agicultual ideas can be displayed and tested, and to show students the basic skills needed fo gowing food in this aea. And this is only the beginning. The futue of this pogam is full of pomise and excitement. We hope to continue expeiential, handson leaning that engages students mentally and physically, while also getting them involved in thei geate community. Cuent Needs/ How to Get Involved: Pond needs: A shed needs to be built offeing an on-site stoage location fo educational mateials and tools. A class meeting aea with benches needs to be built to offe a centalized leaning aea whee the teaching can take place and the hands on pat of the lesson can happen vey close by. Geenhouse needs: In time, it would be nice to build diffeent geenhouse designs. Financial suppot towad the needed mateials would be appeciated. Due to the natue of gowing plants, we will need money to pay fo supevision of the pogam yea ound. Lage wate collection baels o tanks. Sola o wind poweed pumps to move wate fom ou collection ponds to the gaden. P.O. Box 41 Rehoboth, NM

6 S u m m e Ex p e ie n c e s Thee ae only a few things that affect etenity. Such was the case as 35 Navajo, Zuni, Hispanic, Afican Ameican and Anglo students boaded a bus and headed to the mountaintop. In this case, the mountaintop is in the San Benadino mountains nea Idyllwild, CA. Hee, evey June, a coss cultual camp is held with middle school students fom Califonia and New Mexico. The camp is appopiately named Dunamis which is the Hebew wod fo POWER! The lifechanging expeience of being at Dunamis is poweful as campes ae invited to give thei lives to the Lod in fist time commitments o ecommitments. They accept the invitation in doves, life is foeve changed and etenity is affected! Thee ae some who might say that attending a camp filled with 200 mid-schooles would be analagous to suffeing with the stomach flu o some othe hoible malady. But to see the incedible things that happen at camp would quiet even the most vocal naysayes. In fact, the middle school age is pointed out by eseaches as being cucial to a child s acceptance of the Lod and beginning the Entada The chapels helped me get to know God moe and they helped my spiitual life. My cabin mates wee like my sistes we had a lot in common. ~Skylynn Olvea Camp Dunamis jouney of faith. Fo that eason alone, Camp Dunamis, is vital to ou midschool students spiitual lives. Dunamis campes ae given a healthy balance between fun activites such as the swimming pool, cafts, field games, cabin times with fellow campes, and woship times in chapel and small goup devotions. Enveloping all these activites ae the payes offeed by a dynamic team of paye waios that cove evey inch of the camp in paye. As a esult, Dunamis is unleashed, gace abounds, and God s spiit woks in incedible ways. Evey aspect of the camp is caefully and thoughtfully planned by a committee that woks tielessly thoughout the yea to pepae this mountaintop expeience fo campes. Ou students lives have been changed fo etenity though this summe camp. As a school we ae excited to see ou students gowing spiitually and commiting thei lives to Jesus Chist. Calvin College s Entada Scholas Pogam povides ethnic minoity students with an oppotunity to live on campus fo fou weeks out of the summe and expeience what college life is all about. These students take classes togethe, live togethe in the doms, have discussions about acism, and attend fun activities. Two cuent Rehoboth students, Ben Chee and Tonisha Begay, took advantage of this pogam this summe. Hee ae some of thei eflections on thei expeience: I took an English class duing Entada, and while it is not my favoite subject, it taught me to be a bette wite. I also leaned bette time management skills that will benefit me both at Rehoboth and in college. Entada exposed me to diffeent foms of woship fom many diffeent cultues. It povided me with the oppotunity to attend diffeent types of chuches and see diffeent ways that people paise God. ~Benjamin Chee 11 I applied to the Entada pogam because I didn t have anything to do fo the summe, and I wanted to see if Calvin College was a college fo me to conside. Entada made me ealize that Calvin has an amazing Chistian atmosphee, and I would eally like to attend college thee. Entada encouaged me to find myself and what I want fo my life. Afte this expeience, I know that I want to have a close elationship with God and with my family. ~Tonisha Begay 11 6 Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian

7 20 Scho o l Th e m e And now these thee emain: faith, hope and love. But the geatest of these is love. P.O. Box 41 Rehoboth, NM

8 WELCOME, NEW STAFF NEW TEACHING and ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF One of ou own Gates Millennium scholas and alumni, Taa Loenzo etuns to New Mexico afte gaduating fom the Univesity of Kansas to become ou new 7/8 Social Studies teache. Wheneve I coss the New Mexico state line, I feel at home, says Loenzo on etuning to he home state. Taa enjoys spending time with he family, especially he nephew, as well as ooting fo he collegiate team, the Kansas Jayhawks. When taveling, Taa loves visiting as many museums as she can. Since coming back to the southwest Taa has euinted he taste buds to geen chile chicken enchiladas, but you can neve go wong with a bowl of geen chili stew. In the above photo, Taa is pictued with he gandfathe, Sandy Bu, a Navajo Code Talke. Coming fom he hometown in Holland Michigan, Ann Hetel joins the Elementay staff at Rehoboth. A 2010 gaduate fom Hope College, Ann is teaching 1st gade, afte spending the past sping semeste student teaching in Michigan. New Mexico s wide open spaces povide Ann with many oppotunities to enjoy he hobby of unning and soaking in the wam sun while eading a book. What geate way to take on a new life expeience than to move to the southwest and enjoy the weathe, hiking and chile. I love it, she says of he geen chili expeience so fa. We welcome ou vey own wold tavele, Katie DeVos as ou new 4/5 gade teache. A ecent Calvin College gaduate in Spanish and Education, Katie loves to tavel and has been taveling since she was 2 yeas old. She ecently moved fom Holland, Michigan but has also lived along the East coast and Canada. Touing Euope and Spain has set Katie in some gogeous sceney to enjoy he favoite hobby - photogaphy. Since aiving, she has enjoyed some geen chile fesh off the gill and also enjoys the bountiful southwest natue. Getting up each moning is such an uplifting expeience fo he knowing she ll see God s handiwok in New Mexico s magnificent landscapes. Elizabeth Liz Van Rees etuns to Rehoboth as ou new Title 1 Math teache afte student teaching in ou Kindegaten classoom last fall. Liz gaduated fom Calvin College in May and is excited that God has bought me back. The southwest is just the place fo he as she loves being active. When she s not teaching she is assisting ou gils socce team and hiking on the neaby tails. With New Mexico offeing many beathtaking sites it is a place fo Liz to utilize he photogaphy skills. Liz enjoys living in the community on the Rehoboth campus. As fa as tasting some New Mexico chile, she says, I can t handle hot HOT HOT. With his wife, daughte and son-in-law all cuently woking as teaches at Rehoboth, Johnny Havey thought he too would join the staff as ou new Navajo Language teache. A gaduate of NAU and Calvin Seminay, he loves the study of languages. Johnny feels Rehoboth is a good place fo him as he feels he ll be able to motivate ou high school students. Johnny finds the community helpful and vey suppotive and that ou staff is vey committed to thei jobs and values. He vey much enjoys the open setting of his classoom to be able to shae devotions and to pay feely. Fom Twin Lakes, New Mexico, Johnny has always enjoyed living in the southwest, especially the enjoyment of the taditional geen chile that he gladly pous onto eveything. Maueen Bia, ou new Middle School Title 1 teache, has been connected to Rehoboth since She comes with teaching expeience fom Zuni, New Mexico and the Cental Afican Republic. With nine childen, he family keeps he busy. She enjoys attending he kids tack meets, socce games and basketball games. She loves the influence Rehoboth has made in the lives of he childen. Maueen finds the sta-filled New Mexico skies beathtaking as well as the beauty of the Red Rocks. Afte many yeas in the aea, Maueen ecently had the pleasue of tasting some geen chili apple pie. Yum. 8 Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian

9 Ken Zylsta comes to Rehoboth to use his gifts to advance God s kingdom and does so as ou Regional Repesentative in Califonia. He began in the winte of When he visits ou campus, he enjoys the community atmosphee, the many cultual expeiences, and the simplicity of life. Tasting geen chile has been enjoyable. Recently he had some with batwust which was vey good, he said. Ken gaduated fom Calvin in 2000, whee he seved as the diecto of the Pep band. He cuently esides in Califonia with his wife and fou childen. LaShanda Spence, ou new Kindegaten Assistant, is an alumnae fom the class of Bon and aised in New Mexico, LaShanda enjoys woking at Rehoboth and feels God has led he hee to wok and teach the childen. Afte spending the summe in Michigan, she etuned to New Mexico because she missed the clea blue skies and he mom s chicken geen chili. LaShanda lives on campus with he family but enjoys living and woking with the geate Rehoboth family, as well. BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND... Bian Kuis etuns as ou new 6th gade Science teache. Fo five yeas, Bian taught Math and Economics at the high school but now also woks out of his home. He is committed to teaching his students to undestand how ou amazing God ceated an awesome wold fo us to discove and cae fo. Stacey Hollebeek joins the staff at Rehoboth again as a pat-time Westen Civilization and Wold Histoy teache in the high school. She feels blessed to be a pat of the staff as well as being able to inteact with students on a daily basis. Two of he thee childen attend Rehoboth, and she loves being able to see them inteact with othes and thei teaches in school and on the playgound. As ou new Accounting Manage, Waen Bumeiste has always enjoyed the wondeful staff and Chistian wok atmosphee at Rehoboth. He joins the administative staff with an immense amount of financial intellect as the fome financial adviso fo Nothwest New Mexico Council of Govenment. Joy Bumeiste joins the Advancement team as ou pat-time Development Assistant but has also volunteeed he time and talents to Rehoboth in the past. Joy is excited to be involved in the ministy of Rehoboth and finds he colleagues continually blessing he life. Cuently, she is focusing he time on photogaphy and gaphic design but highly enjoys all foms of at. An alumnae, Velena Livingston, is ou new Diecto of Alumni Relations. A 2003 San Diego State Univesity gaduate, she has also seved as ou data enty specialist, libaian, and phonathon manage. With thee childen attending Rehoboth, Velena is gateful to be a pat of God s ministy hee and appeciates all the teaches who whole heatedly sevice this ministy. Othe new suppot staff include: Jon Emeson (Custodian), Tacy Lindsey (Assistant Cook), Hattie Maiano (Head Cook), Eica Toppen (Housekeepe), and Ryan Atsma (High School Teaching Assistant), Rosie Tom (Housekeepe) P.O. Box 41 Rehoboth, NM

10 Lynx aound the nation... Save the date! Januay RCS vs. Ramah Gils & Boys Annual Pancake Beakfast 3 on 3 Tounament We want to see you Alumni! Moe details to come Visit us online! Become a fan on facebook Alumni Pofile: Afte completing a 13-yea mission of attending Rehoboth Chistian School, Andew Lee is now on a moe haowing mission to seve ou county. Andew, a thid geneation Rehoboth gaduate, leaves to answe 911 calls fom aound the wold in the Special Opeations (Spec Ops) pogam with the Navy SEALs. I want a challenge, says Lee, when asked on his decision to join the Navy. Joining the Navy SEALs pogam is a big challenge in itself. To even be consideed fo the pogam one has to pass a seies of tests. Accoding to the local ecuite, the most difficult and most-often failed test by applicants is the Physical Sceening Test (PST). The PST consists of sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and a 500 yad swim with just minutes in between fo a quick est. Lee is confident Rehoboth has pepaed him spiitually fo his new path in life. I cannot do it alone, says Andew about ovecoming adolescent temptations. Andew believes if he had attended anothe school his choices would have been diffeent. I would not have been as faithful. I ve built a foundation hee. Being faithful to God has helped him make wise choices, including his choice to join the Navy SEALs. Andew, pat Zuni and Navajo, has attended Rehoboth since Kindegaten. Fo a bief Andew Lee Andew Lee 10 left fo the Navy SEALs pogam on Septembe 7, 2010 time, he moved to Texas but etuned back to New Mexico. It was so impotant to his mothe that Andew have a Chistian education that she decided to keep Andew with his gandpaents who live on Rehoboth s campus. It was impotant to my mom (Mala Lee) and gandpaents (John and Emily Lee) that I attend Rehoboth. In High School, I ealized how Rehoboth had changed me. Lee says one teache, M. Aleke Mois, impacted his life by being his mento and helping him to make these difficult choices. He owes M. Mois, his midschool teache, special thanks fo encouaging and challenging him. With no expession except a simple gin, Lee eflects on his last yea as a senio and leaves the cuent senios an encouagement, believe in youself. A week befoe Lee s last day in New Mexico, he passed his final PST by completing the 500 yad swim within 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Andew left fo boot camp on Septembe 7th, Please pay fo him on his jouney, and fo all of ou alumni seving in the Amed Foces. To begin honoing and paying fo ou past gaduates, the Alumni Association would like to include alumni veteans and militay pesonnel fo sevice in the United States amed foces in ou futue newslettes. Please send you contact and militay infomation to the Diecto of Alumni Relations, Velena Livingston at vlivingston@csnm.og Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian

11 Voluntee Pofile: Cottage Gove Youth Goup Each summe since 2005, Cottage Gove Chistian Chuch s Youth Goup fom South Holland, IL has been coming out to Rehoboth to voluntee. Jed and Saah Van Dunen, a dedicated couple who love to seve God, lead the goup each yea. Jed, who owns Van Dunen Roofing Company, offes his expetise to the vaious oof epai pojects on campus while his wife, Saah, an accomplished Chistian vocalist who ecoded he fist CD in 2007, helps lead the goup. This summe the goup consisted of sixteen youth membes and thee leades. The chuch goup tackled the much needed oof epais to the PeK and Kindegaten building in only thee days, even though it was intended that this poject would take a week. Each yea Jed tains the youth on-site and woks side by side with them each day. The goup toe off two layes of shingles to the sub oof and then laid down the new shingles. Due to thei speedy wok pace, they wee also able to patch and epai needed aeas on anothe dom oof as well. They also had one day fo sight seeing and a jewely making class. Jed cheishes each tip, because he can shae his oofing talents to help the community of Rehoboth. This is one of the easons he likes to come back yea afte yea. Saah feels connected to Rehoboth because of he Native Ameican heitage (Tohono O odaham). She feels that the youth lean moe about the local Native Ameican cultue, something they don t get to expeience in the sububs of Chicago. Malloy Bink, one of the youth goup membes stated, It s good to wok had and do things fo othes. She felt like she was able to focus on moe impotant things like spending time with God while hee in New Mexico. Ethan Kooyenga enjoyed his time because, It s nice to get away fom ou nomal outine and seve God in a diffeent place. Eveyone s expeience has helped him o he ceate such a heat fo Rehoboth. Thank you, Voluntees! Shot tem Voluntees Mav and Jean Rozenboom Steve and Kal Boende BJ and Stacie Boende and childen Tony and Gloia Houtsma James Newman Gay and Macia VanEe Mak VanEe Local and long- tem Voluntees Gloia Dennison Robin Gonzales Linda Kamps Andew Swetz Keith and Alene Kuipes Ben Vandeweff Fed and Haiet Witteveen John Klein Owen and May Lou Aukeman Roland and Ruth Kamps Paul and Jackie Beme Voluntee Goups Loveland Nazaene Chuch Youth Goup Fey Memoial Refomed Chuch Cottage Gove CRC Youth Goup Luthean Chuch of Hope Cuent Voluntee Needs A goup inteested in timming tees aound the campus. Data enty in the Advancement Office. A goup inteested in upgading the plumbing in seveal buildings on campus. Capentes to emodel the old Red Mesa office and covet this office space back into an apatment. P.O. Box 41 Rehoboth, NM

12 Meet the Rehoboth School Boad: The Rehoboth Chistian School Boad is cuently compised of fouteen membes, of whom twelve ae Native Ameican, six ae Alumni, seven attend a Chistian Refomed Chuch, all have childen who attend/attended Rehoboth Chistian School. We have many pofessionals on the boad, including economic developes, business pofessionals, govenmental employees (epesenting tibal, state, and local govenments), a lawye, a banke, a pobate office, a pasto, an educato, and moe. All membes pofess thei Chistian faith and all ae committed to Rehoboth s mission. When they meet, the Holy Spiit is in the oom as they ae people of poweful paye. We ae thankful fo the leadeship of Sue Foste, seving as Pesident fo a thid yea, Pasto Noman Chee, ou Vice-Pesident, Chuck VanDunen, ou Teasue, and Lynelle Benally, ou Secetay. Ou school boad is a faithful goup that seeks to lead Rehoboth and ensue that we ae accomplishing the mission of RCS and being good stewads of the esouces that we have. The school boad has committed itself to a eview of the stategic plan and will hold special sessions this yea to update and evise this guiding document. The othe lage task of this school boad will be deciding about the futue leadeship model and leades fo RCS next yea. We ae cuently opeating unde a one-yea, inteim plan, which will be evisited thoughout the yea. We ask fo you payes fo the school boad duing this yea. Ahehee! (Thank you!) Susanna Foste (Chaipeson), Noman Chee (Vice Chaipeson), Lynelle Benallie (Secetay), Chales VanDunen (Teasue), Joann Hoylan-Tey, Duane Chimoni, Fed White, Lay Smiley, Eic Begay, Clement Yazzie, Janelle Vestel, Leonad Livingston, Sha Begay - Plateo, and Allen West National Advisoy Council Repot: The National Advisoy Council, NAC, held its annual meeting on Septembe 17, 2010, at Tinity Chistian College in Chicago, Illinois. This meeting was attended by ou Boad Pesident, Susanna Foste, Boad membe and LLC Boad membe Fed White, membes of the Management Team, and membes fom the NAC boad. Ou agenda and topics wee vaied but focused on the pogess of advancement of Rehoboth Chistian School. Susanna Foste gave a epot on the school, showing the gowth and the excitement of appoximitely 50 new students and many new families. Sue also epoted that the Management Team is functioning well, and taining is taking place with the team to help them function even bette. Fed White epoted that the Rehoboth Development LLC has completed Phase 1 of the development poject that was stated many yeas ago. We all By: Rick Van Til, S. ejoiced with Fed and the LLC Boad that the building phase and the new infastuctue to Phase 1 ae complete. Fed and the NAC gave many thanks to all of the people that wee involved in making this poject a success. Special thanks to Dan Aukeman fo his hous and capital commitment to complete this vey difficult poject. The NAC is going to look at its mandate fom the Boad of Tustee s and give some thought to econstituting ou existing mandate in ealy This comes fom ou discussion that we have completed most of the mandated pojects, and we ae now looking at new items that need ou attention. Some of these new items include updating existing infastuctue and planning fo a new high school. 12 Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian

13 Annual Repot fo By: Jeff Banaszak, Diecto of Finance and Opeations The fiscal school yea ended on June 30, 2010 and we finished the yea with a modest opeating cash suplus. I am now in my thid yea at the school, and I am always amazed at how tight the budget is and how we managed to finish each yea at a vitual beak-even point. This is a cedit to the many devoted staff and paents who help us maintain a fugal opeation - and also to the many donos who help ou families affod tuition. A few highlights fom the yea: and declaed that ou financial statements pesent faily, in all mateial aspects, the financial position of the school. A copy of the complete audit is available by contacting Jeff Banaszak, Diecto of Finance & Opeations at , o by at jbanaszak@csnm.og. Rehoboth Chistian School Opeating Budget fo We aised and povided $778,549 in financial aid to ou families. This allows us to have an income-based financial aid model and allows families of any income level to be able to affod a Chistian school education fo thei childen. In many ways, ou financial aid model is the aspiation of Chistian schools acoss the county. In the past yea, we eceived donations fom ove 7,000 individual donos an amazing numbe especially in light of a vey tough economy. Afte seveal yeas of planning and development we ae thilled with the completion of Phase I of the Rehoboth Village. A host of voluntees and local contactos conveted cumbing oads, failing sewe and wate lines, and dilapidated houses, into a magnificent new neighbohood. Seveal teaches have bought emodeled houses and made long-tem commitments to Rehoboth. We have also sold seveal lots and the emaining 13 lots will soon be listed on the maket. We wee ove budget in two aeas last yea epais on ou buildings and school bus epais. The aging High School building was especially poblematic with needed oof epais and cacking in the floos and ceilings. We have nine school buses that tavel hundeds of miles each day acoss bumpy esevation oads, and we ae in a constant stuggle to keep these buses opeating and to efesh the fleet with newe vehicles. We established a new endowment fo the Spots and Fitness Cente and now have $1 million invested at the Banabas Foundation. Rehoboth Chistian School eceived a full audit fo the 12-month fiscal yea ending June 30, Ou auditos wee pleased with ou ecods P.O. Box 41 Rehoboth, NM

14 ASP Afte School Pogam The 21st Centuy Community Leaning Cente Pogam is in its 8th yea at Rehoboth. This Afte School Pogam is a collaboative effot between Rehoboth and a neighboing public school, Chuch Rock Elementay. Ove the yeas, the gant has expanded its taget audience fom elementay to middle school and this yea to high school and peschool aged students. While the main goal of the gant is to impove students academic success, the Afte School Pogam does that in a vaiety of ceative ways. Middle school and high school students ae able to apply thei math, logic, witing, and eading skills by paticipating in vaious clubs based on thei passions and inteests. Ou pond and geenhouse povide students with an inteest in science an oppotunity to lean and exploe expeientially. Students inteested in fine ats can paticipate in a vaiety of activities fom guita lessons to dance and dama. Fo those students who want moe one on one academic suppot, they can join ou GPA maintenance o an ACT pep class. A unique aspect of ou pogam allows students inteested in education an oppotunity to lean moe about ealy childhood development, while poviding childcae. Othe clubs include: chess, mountain biking, sevice leaning poject design, and fitness. Each club and each student in the pogam will be involved in a sevice leaning poject duing the school yea. The coe mission of the Afte School Pogam is to help ou students succeed academically, with a special emphasis on eading and math. By einfocing the leaning that is aleady happening in the classoom, the Pogam is suppoting ou teaches and benefitting ou students. The Afte School Pogam gives Rehoboth students a safe place whee they ae given the space, tools, and assistance they need to complete thei homewok successfully. They ae given an oppotunity to exploe thei inteests and to seve thei community. Gifts in Memoy of: In memoy of Rachel Anne DeKone Blok Ms. Inamae Skutt In memoy of John Bosch M. and Ms. Jeffey and Cindy Bosch In memoy of Jeanette DenBlyke M. and Ms. Benad and Mailyn Gelde M. and Ms. Jim and Geta DeKone In memoy of Josephine (Jo) DenBleyke Ms. Hendeika K. Elsinga M. and Ms. Badley and Tammy Smith M. and Ms. Edwin and Majoie Boeve In memoy of Leste Dykhouse Ms. Phyllis VanAndel M. and Ms. Thomas and Caolyn Weeda In memoy of David Gant Ms. Mailyn L. Gant 14 In memoy of Latice (Tice) Geea Gist Silvesmiths Ms. Donna E. Powell M. Bob Rosebough In memoy of Mike Hekman M. and Ms. Steve and Jeanne Hoekman In memoy of Evelyn James M. and Ms. John and Joann Pinto D. and Ms. Robet and Esthe Koops Ms. Eunice A. James Disability Sevices Inc. In memoy of Chistophe Johnson M. and Ms. Ronald and Ruth Evenhouse M. and Ms. Buton and Michaela Lesse In memoy of John Katebeg M. and Ms. Jacob and Ruth Theule Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian In memoy of Henietta Kingma M. and Ms. Fed and Babaa Hoeksta In memoy of Edwad Plyman M. and Ms. Shewin and Ellen Doon M. and Ms. Robet and Macia Theule In memoy of Chistine Tanis M. and Ms. Leonad and Gace Bink In memoy of Heny Visse & Mabel Tepsta Daling Visse Ms. Mathea D. Jage In memoy of Rolf Veensta Rev. and Ms. Heman and Melba Leestma In memoy of Eleano Ve Schue Ms. Jenine VeSchue

15 Please use my gift fo: P.O. Box 41, Rehoboth, NM $ Bus Fund! $ Playgound Poject! $ Annual Fund $ RCS Endowment Fund In Memoy of: In Hono of: $ fo (anothe pogam/oppotunity not listed above) $ Total gift Moe Infomation: Please send me moe infomation on the Sponsoship Pogam. Yes, I would like to suppot Rehoboth. Would you like to be a paye patne of RCS? Sign up fo ou monthly paye calenda. Hee is a gift fom: Name Addess City, St. Zip Yes, I would like to eceive the paye calenda in the mail. Yes, I would like to eceive the paye calenda by . Hee is my addess: Donate You Vehicles Rehoboth is now accepting vehicles, boats, motohomes, ect. Contact Rick VanTil fo moe infomation at vantils@csnm.og Gifts in Hono of: In hono of the 60th Wedding Annivesay of M. and Ms. Don Eggebeen M. and Ms. Edwad and Sylvia Rudenga M. and Ms. William and Joyce Rudenga M. and Ms. Roge and Nell Van Dellen In hono of Raymond DeVies M. and Ms. Michael and Jodi DeVies Ms. Kathie Wolf In hono of Bill Vande Hoven Ms. Paula K. Vande Hoven Ways You Can Suppot Rehoboth We NEED $195,000 TO COVER THE COST OF EDUCATION FOR THE 50 NEW STUDENTS WE ENROLLED THIS YEAR! WE NEED TO REPLENISH OUR JUBLIEE FUND (FORMER EMERGENCY TUITION FUND.) The fund is Cuently at $0, and we need $15,000 to keep ou students coming to school. WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS! In hono of the 50th Wedding Annivesay of M. and Ms. Ken and Mickie Kleinheksel M. and Ms. Chis and Jane Weathefod Raisch Family M. and Ms. Jim and Nancy Engen This newslette was pepaed by Rehoboth staff and poduced by ou fiends at Newsweb. M. and Ms. Jey and Bab Kuiphof P.O. Box 41 Rehoboth, NM

16 PO Box 41 Rehoboth, NM Non-Pofit Og. US Postage Paid Geenville MI Pemit #338 Addess Sevice Requested An album of Rehoboth family stoies witten by D. James Schaap will be eleased mid-novembe. Fall 2010 Vigoously Academic Beautifully Divese Thooughly Chistian Highest enollment in school histoy! We welcome 489 to ou campus fo the school yea!