“The poster child of the ECS mission.”
“The embodiment of everything ECS is about.”
These are some of the descriptions of Coach John Roelofs by those who know him best.
As we honor Coach on the occasion of his retirement after 51 years of faithful service to ECS, we thank the Lord for using this man of God to disciple future generations of ECS students so faithfully for more than a half century.
The son of a farmer and homemaker, Coach learned the value of hard work in the onion and potato fields of Albert Lea, Minnesota. He attended Dordt University, an evangelical Christian college in Sioux Center, Iowa. His college friend, Arlo Kreun, began his career as a math teacher at a fairly new school in Memphis called Evangelical Christian School. A year later, Coach joined him in Memphis to teach PE at ECS, eight years after the school’s founding.
As they say, the rest is history.
The history of ECS unfolded during John’s tenure at the school, now in its 59th year of Christian education. And he has the stories to prove it.
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