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Past Jordan House Fundraiser Events:

Jordan House and the Human Race:

On May 10, 2008 Jordan House participated in the 2008 Human Race in Santa Cruz, CA where we raised $2000 for Jordan House.

The Human Race is a nationwide community fundraising event for nonprofit organizations, schools, and faith based organizations. This race is the Central Coast's largest collaborative community fundraiser, and features a 10k walk and fun run beginning at Natural Bridges State Park and winding along one of our most beautiful natural resources – West Cliff Drive. Organizations and businesses recruit walkers/runners/pledge-gatherers to raise funds. Participating nonprofit organizations receive 75-85% of monies collected and the Volunteer Center receives the remaining percentage to coordinate and stage the event.

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A Musical Gift presents a Benefit for Jordan House

Jordan House’s second fundraising event took place on Friday, April 18, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm. It started with a silent auction from 6:00-7:30 pm , and concert following from 7:30-9:00 pm. at Santa Cruz Bible Church, 440 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 

The First Jordan House Annual Wild Flowers Concert Event featured Rebecca Jackson, (www.rjviolin.com), Founder and Artistic Director of Music in May (www.musicinmay.com). She pioneered a violin curriculum and introduced the beauty of music to nearly 250 Ukrainian and Romanian children. She has been soloist with the Cluj Symphony Orchestra of Romania, the Kiev Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Classical Philharmonia of California, UC Santa Cruz Orchestra, FOSJA orchestra of Puerto Ric, among others.

The purpose of our concert was to raise funds and further introduce Jordan House, a new service to our community. Jordan House is a Christian, non-profit organization whose ministry is to care for the terminally ill, supplementing hospice in the work that they do. Jordan House volunteers have been serving in this way since November 2005 and the responses from those served have been very gratifying!

We were thrilled to announce that North Bay Ford auctioned a 2008 Ford Focus and Honda Ocean auctioned a 2008 Honda Fit! 

We thank all our Gold and Silver Sponsors, as well as donations of an item or service for our silent auction and are grateful that you were a part of this wonderful event. For more information on how to become a Gold or Silver Sponsor, visit our Sponsor page.

View larger view of poster or download flier (pdf file).

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Jordan House participates in “The Relay for Life.”

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Beach Luau

To the many friends of Jordan House,

As we came closer to the date of this luau I began to realize the Herculean efforts that so many people put in to make this event such a success. From the beginning our primary goal for the luau was to let the public become more aware of Jordan House and our ministry of compassionate Christian care to those who are dying. Secondly, we wanted to have a way to say thank you to those who have supported this work from the onset. Lastly we wanted to begin a fund that we could use for a live-in facility as we trust God to provide for us.

I could never imagine the planning and ongoing direction that would be required to make this luau come together, so let me start with a huge thank you to our two Chairpersons, BB Wong of All About Properties Brubeck-Wong Realtors and Sabrina Shewfelt of Coldwell Banker Real Estate. They took our seed thought of “what can we do to promote our ministry?” and this event is the culmination of hundreds of hours of work on their part. Words are inadequate to convey our appreciation to these two women.

Once B.B. and Sabrina began to work, people and organizations became involved in helping us. Monterey Bay Academy, an excellent private high school learned of our plans to have a luau and offered their entire private beach area for our exclusive use. Their cooperation including their facilities has been beyond our imagination. Thank you MBA!

Audrey Blumeneau, Web Designs offered to do our design work and maintain our site for the length of our luau advertising. If you have not seen this very interactive site please go to www.jordanhousesc.org and look. Audrey has done a professional job. While you are at our web site look at the large number of gold, silver and bronze sponsors who have given funds and services, not for a tax deduction but because they believed in what we are doing. Our sponsors are also listed in this program and we say thank you to each of them.

The Aloha Island Grill agreed to prepare and supervise the luau buffet. Not only is this one of our favorite restaurants it is a fun place to dine. KAPU, 104.7FM, a Hawaiian radio station in Watsonville has produced many spot announcements through their medium of the airwaves. Many thanks go out to Good Times for all the print media coverage to help spread the word about our Jordan House Beach Luau. All of the Jordan House Board of Director members have worked hard to make this luau a special event but I would like to single out two who have put in so much in time, travel and expertise; Sally Thomas, our Administrative Manager and Jerry Lichac, our Treasurer. They have coordinated, designed, provided CAD drawings of the site, and been our liaison to every other person mentioned.

Finally, but by no means last are our wonderful volunteers who worked on Friday and arrived early Sunday to get the luau set up; we could not have done it without you!

To you who are reading this letter of thanks, my prayer is that this luau met your every expectation and that you will become a supporter in helping us spread the good news that we are here to serve those facing the end of life with the hope of Jesus Christ.

On behalf of the Jordan House Board of Directors and our client volunteers;

Jim Seybert, President

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Warm words from the Luau chairpersons,

We are excited to have hosted a summer (Kau wela) afternoon of fun for family (o ‘hana) and friends (Hoaloha) of the Jordan House. Thank you for being such a big part of making our 1st annual fundraiser celebration (Ho ‘olaule ‘a) a success. We hope you enjoyed the beautiful sounds of the soothing Hawaiian Music, the smells of freshly grilled authentic Hawaiian food, and the graceful sights of our Hula Show. Mahalo to all our guests & volunteers for bringing the vision closer of someday providing a community residence that will house those that Jordan House will care for.

Warmly,

Sabrina Shewfelt, B.B. Wong and Sally Thomas.

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Special Luau Event Supporters:

• Huna Wai Hawaiian Band
• Morgan Kost
• Aloha Island Grille
• Hula School of Santa Cruz
• KidsArt Scotts Valley
• Dondi Reyes Fire and Knife Dancer
  

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Donors:

Bob & Edie Rittenhouse Monterey Jazz Festival tickets Randy Brown Photography Marty Magic Jill Perry Ellen Fox Dave Brubeck Rainbow Pearls by Toby Reed Kuratomi, DDS Donald & Barbara Dimitruk H & S Jewelers Janessa Farr, J. Marie Designs Mitchell A. Jackman, Atty Byington Winery Katy Caldwell Santa Cruz Sports Central Ted & Barbara Louv Good Times Helen Rob Riverside Lighting Georgia Randall Santa Cruz Motorsports Sugar Bowl Ski Resort Magic Mountain Boulder Creek County Club & Golf Course Ports of Call Roudon-Smith Winery Spa Fitness

Mystery Spot Shopper’s Corner Palace Arts Joyce, Beleza Salon Brooke, Beleza Salon Terri Ryan, Michael’s Hair Salon Kayak Connection Taqueria Vallarta Costco Tiedemann Nursery Garden Center Audrey Tennant, David Lyng Real Estate H.S. Harry Lake, New Horizons Realtors Heather Jessee, Studio Bloom The Buttery Café Cruz Gilda’s Restaurant Jerry’s Sport Bookshop Santa Cruz Karen Marcum Petra Schultz Joan Neilson Genia Barnes, Barnes Photographics Out of the Woods Quality Hardwood United Rentals Salinas

Kiantis Pizza and Pasta Bar Aptos Village Skin & Body Care Beckmanns Bakery Pacific Cookie Company Santa Cruz Title Company Silver Spur Paris Shewfelt, GreatKidsCare.org Tom Bolei Photography One of a Kiner Massage HellBent Studios Plant Works Sally Bookman Silver Mountain Winery DeLaveaga Golf Lodge Alana, Tonic Salon & Spa Adrianna, Tonic Salon & Spa MAC Cosmetics Lauren Spencer, Coldwell Banker Monterey Bay Acadamy Jondi Gumz, Santa Cruz Sentinel Ron Slack, Good Times San Lorenzo Garden Center Blue Moon Clothing Vanita Walters, Designing Just for You Karen Weston Designs Jade Lotus, Photography

Jordan House, Inc., P.O. Box 66256, Scotts Valley, CA. 95067
Phone: (831) 471-9982 E-mail: administrator@jordanhousesc.org