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Jackson
Onsite Program - Makes the
News!
View
the WILX Channel 10 News story about
this SSI event HERE.
View
a short narrated photo album
HERE.
Since
2000 we've conducted successful Onsite Programs
with the Jackson Area Home Educators. In
fact, JAHE hosted one of our three pilot programs
that launched a statewide effort that has now
trained thousands of students and collaborated
with dozens of schools and home school groups
throughout Michigan.
This year, for the
first time, we were extremely pleased to be joined
by Jackson Christian School and
Pioneers Home School Co-op for a two-day event at
Grace Church involving fifty
students. Although there were a couple of SSI
alumni in the crowd, most of the students were
experiencing SSI for the very first time. As
usual, many of them had initial expectations that
were not very positive. Afterwards, however, here
are just a few of the many positive comments from
the Jackson Christian students:
"My
experience at SSI was a great one, but
let me
tell you, I was not expecting it to be."
"I
had a lot more fun than I had planned for."
"Going
into SSI, I was completely and utterly nervous
and unresponsive. SSI was a lot different than
I thought it would be.
This was actually
really fun, and I'd like to do it again."
"I
was not overwhelmed with excitement. Little did I
know
that I would soon experience the funniest
time that
I have ever had with an event
related to school."
"People
thought that this would be a really boring trip
and
that we wouldn't learn anything. Many of
those people were
proved wrong and ended up
really enjoying this experience."
Tim
Barsuhn the JCHS Government teacher wrote, "The
students genuinely enjoyed and learned a lot from
participating in SSI. We look forward to working
with you in the future."
As you
can imagine, we were extremely blessed by the
responses, and hope to make this an annual
event.
Special thanks are due to the
following people:
1. All of our
VIP's, including two Circuit Court Judges,
two law enforcement officials, a Jackson County
Commissioner, the Jackson County Prosecutor, some
Pastors and a Spring Arbor University Professor.
Your generous gift of time really helped SSI be a
realistic experience and tremendous learning
opportunity for all of the students.
2. Our
volunteers really went the extra mile to
help make everything run smooth. Jim Dolson, Tim
Barsuhn, Aaron Metzcar and Lori Davis from Jackson
Christian all contributed greatly along with
Pastor Ed Utz and Patti Sailor from Pioneers and
JAHE. We simply could not have done it without
you!
3. We are deeply indebted to our
event underwriters for their generous
support. A couple of years ago, Gerry and Neita
Gerweck agreed to help bring SSI to Jackson
Christian and their lead gift really helped make
it all possible. In addition, it is a great honor
to have the financial support of Spring Arbor University. We are
hoping that SAU might host our next Onsite in
Jackson and we'll be talking about that soon.
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