Staff

Administrative Team

The Valley Christian School Board of Directors has established an administrative structure for the school that consists of three key positions: The School Headmaster, Business & Finance Director, and the Development Director. These represent the three heads of the school with each reporting directly to the School Board. This executive administrative team also works in collaboration together as a cabinet to more effectively oversee all the day to day school operations and promotions.

	Derick Tabish Headmaster 23 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1994 Graduate Northwest Nazarene 1988 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6		Terri Antonson Development Director 9 years development Hired at VCS 2010 Graduate EWU 1994 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. Matthew 5:15
	Connie Hemmer Business/Finance Director 20+ years as an accountant Hired at VCS in 2007 Graduate of University of Montana 1985 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. James 1:2-5

Elementary Staff

	Debbie Heden Lead Elementary Teacher, 3rd Grade 24 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1986 Graduate from EWU 1986 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13		Terry Neve Kindergarten 14 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1998 ...for the joy of the LORD is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10
	Lois Taylor 1st Grade 37 years teaching Hired at VCS 1988 Whitworth BA 1968, Masters 1995 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6		Roxann Harber 2nd Grade 23 years teaching Hired at VCS 1992 If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Romans 8:31-32
	Sue Olson 4th Grade 24 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1992 Graduate from Northwest University 1987 Masters from EWU 1990 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6		Joni Croft 5th & 6th Grade 23 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1988 Graduate from Eastern Washington University 1988 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. Job 23:10
	Rebecca Evans 6th Grade 1st year teaching Hired at VCS in 2011 Graduate of Western Governors University and Whitworth University		Donna Poston Elementary Classroom Aide
	Meagan Larson K-6 Elementary Music Teacher 1st year teaching Hired at VCS in 2011 Graduated from Westminster Choir College in 2010 If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31

Middle/High School

	Nancy Arnhold Guidance Counselor 15 years teaching/5 years Guidance Hired 1995 Graduated from EWU Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures. Psalm 119:89-90		Anne Capobianchi Spanish 14 years teaching Hired at VCS in 2009 Graduated from University of Stony Brook, NY 1984 Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. Psalm 31:4
	Dan Hayek History, Bible, English, Jr. Hi Math & assistant to the Headmaster Hired at VCS in 1995 Graduated from Pillsbury College BA-BS 1972, Heritage Baptist University MA 1981, MS 1982 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:3-4		Julie Hicks English & Librarian 18 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1994 Graduate from Bethel College 1994 …but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31
	Cathy Hopson Bible, English, Home Economics, Drama & Senior Seminar 29 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1997 Liberty College 1989 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.He makes me lie down in green pastures,he leads me beside quiet waters,he refreshes my soul. Psalm 23:1-3		Michael Goering Computers, Art & IT Manager 14 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1999 CBC & EWU If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. James 4:17
	Chad Kimberley Bible, Yearbook, Geography, P.E. & Athletic Director 5 years- 10 years as a Youth Pastor Hired at VCS 2008 Graduated from John Brown University 1997 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Isaiah 1:17		Will Sleeth Math 13 years teaching Hired at VCS in 2001 Graduated from WSU 1993 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13
	Hannah Whisenand, MT (ASCP) Science 19 Years experience, licensed Medical Technologist Hired at VCS in 2010 B.S. Medical Microbiology California State University, Long Beach Post baccalaureate Talbot Seminary, Whitworth University, Cal State University Fullerton But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4-5		Bobbie Worley Washington History, Writing, Junior High Music, Bible, Speech, English & Drama 17 years teaching Hired at VCS in 1998 Graduated from Concordia University, Portland, OR 1986 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge… 2 Samuel 22

Home School Faculty

	Marilyn Schlafmann Extension Program Coordinator 20+ years teaching Hired at VCS in 1986 Seattle Pacific & EWU Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2		Cindy Bruce Teacher 29 years teaching Hired at VCS in 2009 Graduated from University of Colorado in 1979 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
	Rae Johnson High School/ Middle SchoolTeacher 21 years teaching Hired at VCS in 2000 Graduate from EWU, Masters from Grand Canyon 2002 Rejoice always, 1 Thessalonians 5:16		Laurinda McCracken Teacher
	Lynn Robbins Elementary Teacher 9 years teaching 1980- Rehired 2009 Graduated from EWU I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13		Lorna Vansant Senior Teacher & Parent Advisor Graduate from University of Victoria ...if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

Office Staff

Heidi Santone
Secretary

Hired at VCS in 2006

God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Colossians 2:13-15

Tawnie Meisegaes
Assistant

Facilities

Eugene Senchenko
Maintenance

Hired at VCS in 1997

That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:3

Valentina Senchenko
Custodian