SPRING INTO GIVING

Thank you so much for supporting the ECS Annual Fund with your gift during Spring Into Giving.

We are grateful for your partnership with ECS and your investment in the mission of our school. 

 


Your gifts to the ECS ANNUAL FUND will support these funds:
 

Jim Heinz Athletics Fund

Named in memory of a man who led multiple ECS teams to state championships in football and baseball, we strive to honor the legacy of Hall of Fame Coach Jim Heinz  through this fund designed to support and upgrade athletics facilities on the Shelby Farms campus. Most prominently we have updated our varsity locker room with refurbished lockers, new flooring and other amenities. We have also been able to acquire innovative, sport-specific tools building up our student-athletes as they pursue excellence. Support for these types of consistent improvements will help develop our student-athletes physically to better compete with our peer schools across the state. We also have the privilege of developing them spiritually in Christian discipleship offered by coaches who share Coach Heinz’s goal of building godly leaders for life. 

Fine Arts Fund 

The ECS Fine Arts department is one of the most recognized programs in the region. In recent years ECS has won "Most Outstanding” awards presented by the Orpheum in several categories, which includes a competitive field of public and private schools. In order to continue to offer our students the best Fine Arts experience possible, the Fine Arts fund has allowed us to acquire a state-of-the-art LED video wall creating radiant backdrops and scenery for our productions. We have also re-introduced our pottery studio and upgraded our chapel lighting in the Mark Brink Auditorium. Your support for the Fine Arts fund enables us maintain our standards of excellence in all of Fine Arts.

 

Dee Baker Teacher Development Fund

We often hear from our students and alumni about the lasting impact that our teachers make on their academic, social, emotional and spiritual lives. Coach Dee Baker, in whose memory this fund was established, is an example of one such teacher who greatly impacted students during his 39 years of teaching and coaching at ECS. As a way to honor Coach Baker’s legacy, the teacher development fund will help us seek, hire and retain mission-fit teachers and train them in ongoing professional development to pursue excellence both inside and outside of the classroom. This fund allows ECS to reward our teachers who participate in a summer institute where they will grow vital skills benefiting all ECS students. 

 

 

 

Security Fund 

Student safety is at the forefront of every parent’s mind in today’s world. Under the experienced guidance of Security Directors Mike and Lora Strauss, ECS has made significant strides over the last several years to ensure that both of our campuses are more secure than ever before. We have now successfully enclosed our Lower School with fencing around the perimeter of our Germantown campus. We also continue to add security cameras to both campuses. Our community’s consistent support means we maintain trained personnel at both campuses, while making constant improvements as needed, creating the safest environment for all our students, teachers, coaches and administrators.   

 

 

 

With your gift to the ECS ANNUAL FUND, you will help ECS continue to do what it does best – offer excellent academics in the context of biblical discipleship. We are so grateful for your partnership as we seek to build students for life.