Eli Excavating - Donated basic excavating and dumped many loads of removed dirt and gravel onto other campus project areas.
Ross Boydell of REB Design - Donated work on plans and on the necessary permits.
Jack & Sue Bowker, of Action Transfer -  Donated time and trucking of donated sand.
Ron Westerback - Donated many hours of backhoe work on this project and on other needed drainage projects.
Contractor Joel Peterson - Donating construction oversight.
Electrician Ron Phillips - Donating electrical oversight.
Gary Wise - Is doing a great job contacting numerous businesses for gift-in-kind contributions.
Pacific Ironworks - Donated all the rebar needed for the large slab and block walls – cut to size, bent, tagged, and ready for installation.
Superior Lumber - Donated a unit of 2 x 6’s.
Brotherton Pipeline - They bored a line under our classroom complex and placed a 4’’ sleeve to expedite our getting a sufficient water line from our well to the new addition.  The sleeve also holds the potential to carry other conduits for various electronics.
Terry Miller of City Plywood - Donated the moisture barrier plastic and rebar ties.
Riverside Ready Mix - Donated a sizeable gift of cement needed for the slab and grout for the block walls.

Other companies have indicated interest in helping with later portions of the project, such as Cascade Block, already giving 3 pallets of landscape block this summer, intends to donate the needed block, just as they have donated the block for all of our other buildings in the past.

Numerous others, such as cement finishers, block layers, and heating and air conditioning companies, are indicating a willingness to assist.

(Note: We normally do not list the many gifts so needed and received by the school.  Thanks to you regulars, for your so-important giving throughout the year to meet BASIC needs.  Listing for this special project is given as a “thanks”, and also as an example to others of how people are giving.  The Apostle Paul did this in limited situations.)

• $10,000 from last April’s auction is designated for this project.
• $2,800+ by R.E.B.  Staff spouse/parent, Ross, not only gives his professional design and government liaison time.  His company has paid the engineering and surveying companies, plus some other expenses.
• $2,600 from the sale of a donated car given by a Redwood Country church couple.
• Parent/staff spouse, Dave Omley of Omley Industries, is paying for many truckloads of sand going under the cement slab.
• $800 from a local chapter of the Lutheran Aid Society.
• $100 in lieu of flowers being sent to a hospital patient.
• $100 from one of the material gift-in-kind contributors.
• $300 from a close friend of a NHCS staff member
• $400 from another friend of the school.
• Well over $1,000 from several of our hard workers paying out of their own pocket when they need to procure materials.  Thanks for this extra effort at help!
• An elderly friend of NHCS, who already gives every mite she can, has offered her jewelry to be sold in order to help fund this phase of our ministry.
• Some of your NHCS staff, eager to see progress, have made donations.

More material gifts-in-kind

Cash!  A 7,890 sq. ft addition, designed with simplicity and being aided with great gifts-in-kind of labor and materials, still needs cash!  Money is spent not only on the building project, but also on many land needs around the building.  We have lost much of our past elementary playground space, drainage system and landscaping.  All this, and much more, such as various required and/or wise safety systems, need to be replaced/added.

• A project value has been listed at $50/sq. ft., or almost $400,000.  This is a very frugal figure when considering all the addition exterior works needed.
• Gifts of labor and materials will enable much less than $400,000 needing to be spent.
• We are committed to building debt-free, although completion of the large slab/foundation may draw monies well beyond that already given and designated for this project.  It may temporarily draw into monies needed for basic operation for this coming school year.  In such case, after the slab pour, we will wait for further advance until the needed gifts are in hand. 
• Additional facilities will greatly help, but our first priority is to safeguard monies given by fees or gifts to maintain our present school operations.