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DISCOVERY Education is a process made up of discrete events, each one adding a moment that opens the mind, challenges the intellect, and stimulates the senses.

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Teachers working with students to bring out the best in each through great literature, interaction, dramatization, memorization, hard work, and maybe even a little longsutlering.

JOY A love of learning causâ‚Źs each student and stafl member to recall the lact that God places Christians on Earth with the opportunity to do His work in many diflerent ways, utilizing many ditlerent skills, impacting many dilferent people.

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"I can do all things fu,ough Christ who stmgtbens me.' Students placcd this vcrffi hto action in mmy differcnt sphms this ym o cfiallcngc both acrdcmic md per$onal werc confrorted aod ovmome.

Sntdents found many way$ to bless other peoplc

duriag the year. These oppomnities included missimaies, childrcn battling mer, hmt churches, md even odEr studmts,

"The heavens declare the Glory of God and and the firmament

shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters

speech and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the

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The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

The statutes ol the Lord are right reioicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure,

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OH BY TIIE WAY: Welcome

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Mr. CURTIS Very lew individuals are capable ol striking a pose as effectively as Mr. Curtis. When not photo-bombing otherwise wonderlul images, he is a laithlul and dedicated science and literature teacher. But whatever happens, don't ask him about the man in the cave - you might never hear the end ol it.

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BE CALLED? once upon a time, a person's work was known as their 'vocation'. The word comes from the Latin 'vocare', meaning "to call". The idea is that God calls individuals to certain lines of work to fulfill His purpose in their lives and work out His plans in the world. The instructors of Equip Education have responded to a call. We believe that God has us here for a purpose and we know that the work we do resonates in etemity. Therefore, we take it seriously, We are determined to impact students in a positive and lasting way that will be pleasing to God.

Mrs. OR and Mr. TANNEB Mrs. Taylor keeps her ls on they're toes make sure their are not any rar, spelling or usage, errors. We hope she reed this little blurb or we are in BlG, I say BlG, Mr. Tanner, on the other hand, teaches may have written this himself.

We sense a weight of responsibility on our shoulders. Determination bears it a determination to do everything in our power to encourage these young people on to good works and sound thought and the love of Christ that alone can change the world.

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Mrs. SHIELDS lf there is someone who brings more joy, energy, and passion to teaching, we're not sure who it is. This lady makes class interesting. Plus she bakes us cookies like a BOSS.

Mrs. FOUNTAIN Can you say, 'The love ol Jesus'? Mrs. Fountain can and not only that, she can show it too. This is her last year at Equip and we're all bummed out in a big way. Can you say, 'Please stay!ll!'


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OTIS SPUNKMEYER Here Mr. Curtis draws the unenviable duty of doing his best to encourage, cajole, and browbeat all of us into selling morâ‚Ź cookies. The Otis Spunkmeyer fundraiser is how we offset most of the cost of this book. Of course, the fundraiser is a good thing for us - but that dcsn't mem we actually wilt to sell cmkies---

Mr. RAMIREZ This is Mr. Ramirez. He is an employee of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church and a topshelf guy. He's not a teacher at Equip but you could definitely say he is a member of tbe family. He wu supposed to be in the yearbook last year but we forgot to put him in- [:t's just say he helps hold it all together for us at St. Andrews. He is also known as Dave.


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Every year a make portraits of all the studenLs. Generally, the boys think the whole thing is a drag md the girls are wonied about how they look. These ae just generalizations, mind you. But the one parl of the experience everybody likes isthe group picture. We lile it because

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Miss Cotton showing everyone how it's done on hippie day. Born 40 years too late!

Esther Bharath

Cheyenne Cotton

Daniel Cruz

James Davilmar

John Gallagan

Tatiana Gomez

Jacob Grosholz


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This year's D1 class at St. Andrews was the biggest D1 class yet for Equip at 13 students. But a big group is a great way to acclimate to a new environment and boy, did we acclimate! Sometimes, the

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assignments and showing up on time and finding that uniform shirt. This group handled it all in stride. Many

friendships formed both inside and outside of the class. Each week laughter filled the classroom along with a healthy dose real work. The most difficult experience of the year was when Mrs. Shields had to take part of the year off to attend to her health. We really missed her and she definitely wins our favorite teacher award. This group of young people are the BOMB!

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McKenzie Iszler

Raquel Jones

Natalie Lawston

Izabella Ruiz

Mia Trotta


A second year togfqw and learn together. Dialectic lt quictt$grew into a class of personality;' determination, and varied interests. The class began with only 1 1 students, but early in Jewettand Mr. Rivera made the jump from Calvary Plantatbn*over to St. Andrews. The large-class dynamic was so

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much fun as wr crazy fn Mr. Tanner's class! Math might not win our favori te subject award but Mr. Tanner wins our favorite teacher award! This is a great gioup and We hope we can keep it together next year! P.S.: We eat snacks in every class. Just sayin'.


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Gettin'your picture made is way better than going to class. Boooyahhh...

High School Happens Moving into the high school years is a big adjustment. The grades now appear on the college transcript, we're thinking about driving, and members of the opposite sex hold greater intrique than ever before. With so many potential problems, we are happy that our class is full of stable, committed, Christians. We are the kind of people with whom we want to be friends - and that makes the shoals of high school much, much, much easier to avoid. These students have a lot going on! Robotics, hockey, Bible quiz, 4H, baseball, computer programming, girls choir - you name it, we do it! These

varied interests give us a lot to talk about, which means it is hard not to talk! Right? We gotta talk. We hope you're listening Mr. McChesney and Mr. Curtis. We gotta talk to each other. Either let us talk or make another day of Equip or something! Seriously, we are a blessing to each other on a weekly basis and we think that is how it is supposed to be, Yeah, that's how it is supposed to be.

Take it like a man! Some people iust won't cooperate with the photographer. Here Miss Roque and Miss Long attempt to foil the photograph. We're printing it anyway!

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The girls of Rll spent the year enjoying and supporting each other through thick or thin. And we studied a little. too.

Without question, lunch is the mosl imporlant class ofiered at Equip. Trust us,

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Rhetoric ll Learning to drive. Sensing adulthood just around the corner. Making our way. There are many things about us that are just like the kids at public and private schools. But there are things that differentiate us as well. We are people of faith. We're smart. We're resolute. As the academic work becomes more challenging, we're forced to dig deeper. But with many years of preparation already under out belts, it is clear that we have what it takes to

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Caleb Iszler

Emani McKenzie

succeed. We are thankful for parents and instructors who care. We are thankful for friends that lift us up instead of tear us down. We're looking forward to the freedom that awaits us just over the horizon.

We're going to miss Mrs. Fountain next year. She won't be teaching at Equip, which means we'll probably be stuck with those other guys. Don't get us wrong, they're ok. But Mrs. Fountain is a pearl of great value!

Gabriella Morris

Marissa Muller


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Rhetoric lll We know that God places Christians on Earth to be used by him to further His kingdom. We can't wait to see what He has in store.

The real world approaches and we think we're ready. We've worked long and hard to make it this far and we're excited to see what God has in store for us next.

ln the meantime, we focus on the remaining preparation at hand in the knowledge that the Lord knows all about us, our strengths, our weaknesses, our hopes, our dreams, and not least of all our desire to please Him.

As we look into the face of our final year of high school, we relish the time we have left and look forward to the big changes to come. We are prepared with a Christian worldview and a heart for others.

Aurelio Camacho

Serenity Fountain

We were so blessed to have Yale-educated lawyer, Lauren Morse, spend time visiting with us to discuss college admissions, life on campus, and what it's like after graduation.


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Thomas Shields

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GETTIN'THE JOB DONE The smaller classes at Calvey this yetr gave us us the opportunity to get

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Hippie day was a raging success at Calvary. Here, Miss Jean Baptist, Miss Thompson, Miss Acevedo and Miss Lowenstein pose for the camera.

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Our first year at Calvary Chapel Plantation has been a blessing. Smaller class sizes grant us an additional measure of flexibility within our day. We are able to change our lunch spot, run around outside, climb a tree, even move a class from one room to the next. We like that. Small class sizes also allow students more personalized attention from instructors. This assists the learning process. So we've enjoyed the smaller classes at Calvary but we also miss the larger numbers that make Equip much like school in oth will be interesting to at happens with the group next

The ftrst day of Equip lor Calvary Plantation was aclually held at the McChesney home. That's what happens when all the necessary papenrork isn't finished!


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CHEP$ Twinkling eyes....a playful look....songs of praise....tender-hearted compassion....a sincere smile...purity of heart....strength of character...peace loving...peace making....beautiful.

As you delight yourself in the Lord He makes His beauty to shine through you. Keep it up! We love you! Love, Mom and Dad

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ffieck Today we want to remind you that you are deeply loved. We could not be more proud of what you have done, but more importantly in the godly man that you have become. Be blessed as you "take on the world", applying all of who you are for God's gIory!

Congratulations!

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AIIHBB$" Alibrandi, Hidden within the endless questions of late - what is next? where will you go? what do you want to do? - lies the assumption that it is you that holds the answers and makes these decisions. Not so! God has been the driving force in your life from your first breath. We have witnessed it. We have been in awe of it. From here on you must only do two things: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and stregth and love your neighbor as yourself.

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Mcd85ney You were the one who started us on our homeschool journey and we are so thankful you did.

If you were a kid that enjoyed sitting behind a desk all day, we don't know where we'd be! We love you so much and cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for you.

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slahaBr8scr Lauren, We are so proud of you! It's been joy teaching you and seeing you grow into a beautiful young woman. We love you!

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."

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certainly work hard try to build in a little ia, a spin on the merria run around the church.


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"Quit your lollygagging! We have work lo

do! Ahhh, nobody cares." "Jusl a few more minutes, pleeeeaaase?" "Can'l we just talk about something important so we don1 have to go to class?"

lf science lab doesn't count, extra-curricular activities at Equip are comprised of speech, robotics, and missions. Each of these is an important component of the program and each rounds out student skills in its own way. We believe speech is a necessary skill for all Christians. It is important to be able to share our faith effectively. Robotics inspires us to improve math and science skills in ways that apply to real life while developing our teamwork. Missions reminds us what some Christians are doing around the world and helps us consider whether we ought to join their ranks.


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SPEAKING CAN BE P,,,," SCARY - standing,in front of peopb

The year-end speech tournament is an exciting test of the skills developed through the year. $t OO cash prize goes to the winner!

you may not know wFde they stare, silently critiqding.sr,$tidlt$g;'Vikes, lfs not most people's firsf ,,choiqO,pn hor,v. spend an aftemoon. Of colrse, it nnrstn't be so dauntrffig, Manyrhavo,rylpqtered the art of public opeaking yyhile otherrs have come up with ways to h6lp conquer the

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thesonfidence but also the tools. With lhat as the goal, we began a speech club. After a full day ol academics, students in the club stick around for another hour to work on speeches with topics they have chosen.

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Equip has always believed that effâ‚Źctive public speaking is a vitaltool for every student. Whether our eilrdents become heads of state or heads of households, we are all given opportunities to stand before others and share our opinions. Our desire is to help prepare these young men and women to not only share their views on finance reform, the latest TV show or fad, or whether Walmart is better than Target, but to be able to share why they follow Jesus Christ. Scripture implores us to be prepared'to do just that.

Throughout the year each club member chooses, researches, and writes a speech on a topic of their interest. The rest of the year is spent working on delivery. This process requires a lot of hard work, but yields unbelievable fruit. Finally, after all the effort, we hold an end of the year tournament with cash prizes for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers. With over 20 students participating, the competition is fierce!

lN CLASS SPEECH On certain occasions, speech skills are utilized in class for one reason or anolher, We are constantly on the lookout lor opportunities to place students in ,ront of their peers lor discussion or performance. This is lacilitated by the great care students routinely demonstrate for each othe/s leelingo. NORWEGIAN FJORD HORSES The range ol speech topics selected by students truly astounds. lnterests and hobbies routinely constitute the subject matter ol speeches. The depth and breadth of student interest in wide-ranging areas of knowledge immediately sparks the interest of all in the audience.

T CAN NEMO TELL US ABOUT THE BIBLE? Tessa Grosholz delivered a fascinating talk about the stories of Walt Disney and the etemal aspects ot their eflective storytellin g.


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BBING lT ON: The team piclure was snapped at the 305 League event at Gibson Charler School. All thirteen lgam rnâ‚Źmbers are visible in the picturo along wilh our three parenl volunteers: Mr, Mcchesnoy, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Camacho.

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CHRISTMAS PABTY CBC held a Christmas party and Equip students provided lhe entertainment! cratt tables, dancing, character costumes, a photo booth, and plenty ol food provided a wonderful holiday event lor children banling cancer and their lamilies.

IN CHARACTEF Tatiana escorts Emma to the dance floor to play with the kids.

MAKING FRIENDS Characters and kids spent the evening en.ioying each othe/s company.


STAYING WAHM Students don their character costumes in preparation for entertaining the younger children. Talk about staying

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b attJ-ume Each year, the students of Equip Education band together to raise money and volunteer hours to bless children battling childhood cancer. This is the work of the ministry. FROM THE CBC WEBSITE: Our goal is to raise awareness of the incidence and devastation of childhood cancer in America's children. By raising awareness that childhood cancer is the number one disease killer of America's children, we hope to raise awareness for the families that find themselves in this battle. We seek to make the gold ribbon, which signilies childhood cancer as well known universally as the pink ribbon which symbolizes breast cancer. ln doing so we aim to open eyes and hearts to the children battling this disease and the families left in the wake of its devastation.

amounts ol federal dollars directed to childhood cancer research. Our aim is to come along side the families that are in the battle today and assist and support them emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and financially. As we pray for a cure, we can not forget that many families are in the thick of this batfle that the research of today does not help. Therefore, every dollar raised at CBC goes directly to assisting the lamilies in the greatest need who are battling childhood cancer.

COOKIE MONSTER An Equip student wades into the tray in a Cookie Monster costume. The children anjoyed tho opportunity to intoract with many of their favorite TV and movie charac{ors.

Childhood cancer can strike a lamily with children at anytime and anywhere. There is no rhyme or reason to it. There is no cultural bias or predisposition. ln addition, each and every case ol childhood cancer is a very personal physical and emotional tragedy for which most lamilies are uneducated and unprepared. While we at CBC support the funding for advances in childhood cancer research, we are discouraged at the miniscule

THE CRAFT TABLE RaChelle, Hayley, and Emma work the craft rable at the CBC event.


TIAPPY Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Because I'm happy. Clap along ifjust got an A and you krow that it's the truth. Because I'm happy!

SKEilICS We don't believe everything we rcad on Wikipedia you know...wait, we don't do we? And we don't just go along with the latest trend either (stop talking about that fox, he doesn't say anything!). We tre

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No amount of experimentation can prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. -Albert Einstein

Science...what does it make you think of? Geeks with goggles? Nerds studying Newton? Ok, maybe there is a little of that in science, but there is so much more. So much cool stuff that will blow your mind. Speaking of blowing things up..just kidding mom and

anything for granted. Because if we only learned one thing this year it was this...science cannot prove anything l00%o.

Now you might be wondering, what can we trust in then? Where dad we are keeping things safe can we find hope? So glad You around here. asked. As much as we love doing our experiments and trying to Our first science class in the figure out how the world works, program really wetted our appetite we were reminded as we by exposing us to many different memorized Psalm 119 that all the facets of science. We discussed things we study in nature tell of the origins of life, what constitutes the only One we can trust and the life, what is so special about only One in whom we find hoPe. human life and so much more. We dug deep, learning to investigate So we may enjoy science, wear everything that comes our way. goggles, and like Newton, but we Einstein was right. Just one love Jesus for giving it all to us experiment can prove him and so and hope to use all we learn to many others with stronglY held honor Him! beliefs wrong. So we can't take


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year. What we didn't expect was how nruch we didn't know. Like Physical Science ilteans Chetnistry AND Physics! And with this new curriculunt, we found out we weren'[ in Apologia land auyntore. crourse

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It was a cool year with a bunch of experiments that helped us leam more than we would have thought imaginable about how things move and what causes them to move in the first place. And how to build circuits and even an electrolnagnet (thanks Mr. Reed!). We think he r:right have been playing with electricity long before he ever got to Equip. Anyway, it was a year full of new adjustnrents that we won't soon forget. But we are better preparecl f .r/ rrext year ancl Chernistry. And now we REALT r' kncrw that we like know just about everythin/(ow Watch out R2. here we come!

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Erin Shields isn't paying attention though, she is still upset she isn't eating pizza right now. She even brought her $3

Without her srErt phone, Ms. Moris is at a loss for identifying what she is looking at- "l klow I bave heild about these things before. I think they used to call it a...a themometer No, that's not it, Oh I gol it, ifs a BAROMETER! Oh yeah, thafs righr, who is smart now?

BRING IT ON: I sona rcmenrber Mr. Cuftis sayiDg sorrelhing aboul lhe flmle colo^ indicatiilg energy levels or something, but all I heild was 'ser things on fire" md I was in. I rhink this is the finl time I've volunteeEd for e)'thing...ever.

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I].ELPING HAND Mr. McChesney didn't ned any helping hands in this yeils egg drop. It might not look all that pretty, but it got the job done. Congrats!

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