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Portland Christian Schools 70th Anniversary Celebration

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"Are we there yet? Not by a long shot." Alumni and 2017 graduates share and reflect on their experiences at PCS as "we remain true, without compromise, to His word and the Biblical principals upon which this school was founded." Alumni Director, Jeanne Lampi also shares that "the Lord has much more for Portland Christian Schools to do AND He has much more to teach us."

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My name is Dick Corkum, and I graduated from Portland Christian High School in 1959. I started from the first class in 1948. Um, my dad was a general contractor. He and about five other families were very interested in Christian education. The number one thing I remember is every week in grade school, we learned a new scripture verse. And er, that was, er, demanded of us and pounded in. Probably some of us weren't real happy about that. But years later, I remember many of those Scriptures. So, huge impact to get, er, the word of God cemented into my mind and heart. And I guess the other is the teachers. When I went to school, um, the teachers, um, weren't paid very well and there was a real sacrifice for them. But the teachers were very concerned about us as people, er, interested, er, in our lives. The school, it affected me from a spiritual standpoint, er, from, from a mental standpoint. We were always challenged, er, whether it be, er, with trigonometry or history.

My name is Anthony DeLucia, 2017 this year. Third through twelfth, I've been here. It's cool legacy to know that so many people in my family have gone here before. I think all the different activities that I've been involved in and the Christian leadership and like me learning all my values, um, has all shaped me into a better person than I would be if I was, if I was somewhere else right now, um, I think what has helped me, like in my future, is like defending my faith, and just different things like that. Well, it has made me a rounded person, I think. And like different, I've learned how to do different things that I would never be able to do.

My name is Tiffany Chinchilla. But when I attended PC, it was Tiffiany Prindle. And I graduated from PC in 1998. PC impacted my life in a huge way, um, especially attending throughout the elementary. The foundation that you receive in your education is, is huge. Um, you know, all the teachers that . . . like Mr. Highman, and Mrs. Duncan, um, they impacted my life a lot. PC is a huge part of my family's life. Elaina, well, Elaina graduating will be the fourth generation in our family to graduate from PC. My aunt graduated, my uncle graduated, my mom, all my cousins, my brother, have all graduated from PC. And me, myself.  My kids have gone to a lot of different schools.  Elaina has been to seven different schools. And, um, you know the public school system is just getting worse and worse. And, um, we just kind of got to a point of desperation and we always wanted my kids, I always wanted my kids to go here. And I just thought, you know, I have to send my kids here. I have to. And um, but how? It's impossible. And I remember just at night, crying out to God saying, This is impossible. How's this going to happen? It has to happen. It has to. There were two verses that ran like a record through my head, through my head.  The first one was Psalms 37:4. And that is "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." And God knew that a big desire of my heart was to have my kids here even though I felt it was not possible. And the other verse that just kept running through my head was Matthew 19:26. And that is that, "Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.'" I just had to try, I had to try. So, I just took that leap of faith and, um, here we are. We just know that the kids belong here. The changes that have gone through my kids, um, the achievements they have made, that people told me were not possible are possible, um, it's just been amazing the change in my kids.  They are so happy, they are so happy.  A happiness that they never had. And you know, we've tried public school, we've tried charter school, we've tried home school, we've tried home school co-ops, many different, you know, exhausted everything. And coming here, they've just thrived and they're just so happy.

Elaina Chinchilla, I have only been coming here for one year. So it's my first year as a senior. My mom went to Portland Christian and and just a lot of my family members went to Portland Christian. So my parents, especially my mom, she really wanted me to come. It's really crazy. It's a crazy feeling because there's teachers who still go here that have gone to school with my parents or have taught my parents and they don't know me but they know my family. It's kind of a weird feeling but it's a feeling that you feel known, kind of. It was a big change that I had to go through. It's definitely not like any of the other schools that I've gone to. The people here are really nice. It's just a really different atmosphere. So, I'll definitely remember that.

My name is Jensyn Lown I'm graduating in 2017. I came to Portland Christian in the fifth grade. My mom and my aunts attended Portland Christian, but my mom is the only one that graduated from here. I think it's really cool because certain people, some of my teachers, my mom also had them as her teachers. And so it's cool to be able to talk about that and relate on that level. And everyone, it's just like a party community. Portland Christian, er, is definitely a place where you'll make really great friends and teachers can also become more like friends instead of just teachers. And they can really influence your life and everyone's just really open about what you believe, because we all, we can talk about God here and you just get really enriching, and sometimes fascinating discussions in classes. And not even Bible class. Like you'll be in a Math class discussing, well why did God create this equation to be this way and just in everything you do, you get to discuss how God applies to it, which is how it should be because God applies to everything. And so, I think it's fascinating because it blows my mind sometimes, like the, the the mass of God, how He is in everything. It's really cool to be able to talk about these things in every subject that we learn here. 
Michelle Lown, 1995. I think, I think when I think back, it was a really beautiful nurturing place to grow up. It was a beautiful place to sort out my identity and develop a Christian worldview. I felt known by my teachers I felt loved by my teachers. I feel like I learned the Bible. I feel like I learned, um, how to study subjects, um through the lens of the Bible. And that you can be, um believe the Bible to be true and be a good scientist, for example. Um, which is, you know where I went with my career. Well, for me being a mom now, I'm getting to have my daughter here and feels like coming home um, and so this is a safe place I know. I trust the school, I trust the teachers. And she’s developing her own identity outside of mom and dad. And having these, um, really lovely people to emulate, and having them speak into her life on a regular basis. It's beautiful.

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