Turlock Christian Schools

Throughout our school's 38 year history, there have been many success stories and graduates who have gone on to serve the Lord in various ways.

Here at Turlock Christian School, we cherish each of our 400+ alumni, and would love to be able to keep in touch with you and find out about your college graduations, weddings, babies, choice of career or ministry, address/email updates, etc. Let us know of special events in your lives and families that we may be able to share here!

We would also love to hear from you so your classmates can keep in touch with you and you can be a part of class reunions. If you would like to be included to our current Alumni contact list, please email us updated information about yourself along with updated contact, home and email addresses. Please include in this email if we may share this information with other classmates.

EXCITING NEWS! We are eager to share with you plans of our exciting, building campaign! Believing the Lord has led us to this moment in time, we boldly move forward in His strength and with His leading, making our long time dream of a new high school campus a reality! If you have any questions as to how you may be a part of this, please visit our New HS Campus Webpage and contact us.

Saturday evening, November 24th, was a fun, memorable evening

as close to 50 alumni, along with TCS's high school basketball teams,

came out to kick-off the basketball season! Check out these fun pictures!

Basketball Madness ALUM Fun!

Last week we received an email which I believe should be shared with the TC community:

“I want to take a moment of your time to brag on a couple of Turlock Christian students. At the beginning of the summer, Andrew Sharp learned of the difficulties that I was experiencing while trying to mow my front and back yards. He contacted me and offered his assistance. At first I thanked him and declined his gracious offer, but he continued to contact me saying that he considered it the ‘Christian thing to do’ to help me out in this regard. With that kind of logic, how could I refuse?

The first time he came over, it took him quite a while to get through what I called my lawn—both front and back. The following week he was joined by Tim Daugherty. Once every week, they come and mow, edge, weed eat, dump into the green bin, and take the green bin to the curb. They are gracious, hard working, and generous young men.

I know that Turlock Christian cannot take full credit for this wonderful decision these two boys made; however, the school has played a very important part in their lives and most definitely made a positive influence in their lives. There remains no doubt in my mind that these young men heard the lessons on serving one another, not only through words but in deed-- including the community service that Turlock Christian emphasizes.

This letter was written by a former Turlock Christian teacher who had poured her life into these two young men. They were able to give back to her and make a difference in her life as she had made in theirs. They truly showed Jesus in their actions.

TC Grad Follows Passion to L.A. Art Scene
Kristina Hacker/Editor The Turlock Journal 09/29/07

Ever since Turlock Christian alumnus Eric Nyquist chose art as his career path he's gotten used to family friends asking if he's "able to make a living." He just laughs and says he's doing just fine.

Nyquist graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena last spring and is already working with a team of creative professionals to redesign the National Aeronautics and Space Administration jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena. He specifically is working on a 27-foot mural, creating different drawings and characters. "We're trying to make it a real creative environment for these rocket scientists," he said. When he's not working at NASA, Nyquist is busy designing illustrations for Goldie Cosmetics' "Pirates of the Caribbean" -themed merchandise that will hit Bath & Body Works stores next March.

Nyquist has met with different branches of the Disney company and sold many of his etchings, drawings and murals. His work is intricate and detailed usually done with ink on paper, cut paper or serigraphy. He's also been collaborating with world renowned New York three-dimensional artist Doug Aitken for the past three months. Nyquist's work can be seen at the Abacot Gallery and the Black Maria gallery in Los Angeles and on the Online gallery of artforemptywalls.com. He has been featured recently in LA2DAY magazine, CMYK magazine and the California Institute of Technology Undergraduate Research Journal.

Not bad for a small-town boy. Nyquist, the son of Bob and Debbie Nyquist, grew up in Turlock. His love of drawing began early. Turlock Christian had just begun to offer art classes when he was in school. His junior high and high school English, science and Bible teacher Dawn Piper remembers well his constant need to create. "He always wanted to draw instead of taking notes in class," Piper said. "I finally made a deal with him - 'As long as you do your work, then you can doodle and draw your test answers.' "It was wildly successful. I encouraged him to draw. I saw in him the classic mind of an artist." It is no surprise to Piper that Nyquist has flourished as a professional artist. "I think he's a perfect example that your giftings will make room for themselves," she said.

Although most of his friends and family thought a career as an architect was in his future, he learned more about art while attending Merced Junior College. "I ended up taking a painting class. I had always drawn, but when I took that class I realized that's what I want to do - that's my passion." Nyquist looked at many different art schools in California and out-of-state, before enrolling at the Arts Center. "I was told by other art professors that the Arts Center is where I should be," he said.

Nyquist has now fully adapted to being a part of the L.A. art scene, though he has never forgotten where he came from. "It's great here, but I love coming home to Turlock."

Freedom Isn't Free
The war started in spring of 2003 and many of our T.C. family's lives changed dramatically. With some former students serving in the military, the war soon became personal to kids around the campus. People look at war as just a sad situation that they are happy they are not in and as for others they feel the need to take on the responsibility of this countries freedom. Some of those people who allow us to live our lives daily with freewill are former T. C. students. Many of you would agree that God inspires the hearts of young men and women everday to join the military. For someone to put their life on the line for their loved ones and even strangers is the best example of love yet. Listed below is an update on where our military boys are stationed and what they have been up to. Please remember to keep these boys in your prayers.
	Evan Hallam a 2003 TCS graduate, enlisted in the Army January of 2005 as a Combat Medic was deployed in Iraq for one year. He is currently stationed in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.

Connor McDaniel serves for the United States Navy. His job is a Damage Control Man and Fire Fighting Specialist. He works on the ship USS Bonhomme Richard anywhere from eight hours a day to sixteen. "It all depends on the work load handed to me," Connor says. The navy has him stationed in the Prsian Gulf for another 3 months. connor's best memory in the service was going over seas to help the Tsunami victims. His worst moment in the Navy is when it comes to deployment time. Connor has one year until he is done serving in the military. When he gets out he is going to go to school, study Fire Science, and Fire Technology. He hopes to get hired onto a Fire Department somewhere in the Bay Area.

Jason Mosby is serving as a marine for the United States Military right now. He's already been in the military for 2 years with one left ot go. Jason is stationed at Camp Pendleton where he will stay until he gets deployed to Iraq next year. He works as a Teleportation Technician, which helps support and keeps the helicopter's running. Jason's working hours is eleven to twelve hours a day. he wakes up at about for thirty every morning and doesn't finish his day until about six in the evening. When Jason is finished serving the military he plans on getting a degree in criminal justice. His favorite memory as a Marine hasn'g come just yet. "It will be when I get out of the service," Jason says.

Justin Schoenenberger serves the Military through the Navy Branch. He is stationed in Atsuji, Japan, where he will finish out his last year in the navy. When Justin is deployed out to sea he boards the USS Kitty Hawk. His normal day on the job consists of going into work at two o'clock until about four in the morning. He works as an Aviation Ordinance man, which means his job is to load and unload 500 lb. to about 1,000 lb. bombs, missiles and rockets onto the fighter jets. "We are lucky if we get the weekends off," he adds. Justin says that his favorite memory in the Navy is when he went to Nagano, Japan on New Year's day to snowboard. "My worst memory is when I go home for 2 weeks out of the year to see my family and friends and then have to leave back to Japan, "Justin commented. His plans after the military are to go to college.

Chad Van Rys serves in the Marine Corps as a Firefighting and Aircraft Rescue personnel. He is currently stationed in Northern iraq and will be there for about six more months unitl he returns to his duty station, which is in Twenty Nine Palms, California. His hours depend on if his aircraft detachments are up and flying; they vary from three to six hours at a time. A normal day for him is waking up to a call from the radio telling him to be at the airfield. "My worst memory was laying on the ground of the Jordan, Syria border last year on a convoy. I couldn't see anything and the things I could hear I'm not quite sure I wanted to see," Chad says. His plan after getting out of the service is to become a DOD Firefighter for the government on military bases.

Helen Schoenenberger, Student
Newspaper - March 21, 2005, Volume 4, Issue 5

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