Meet our Founders
Sandra Sommerfrucht
Is blessed and grateful to be the wife of James Sommerfrucht. Together, they have four treasured children and five beloved grandchildren that live in the Dallas area. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964 and then began teaching Latin and English near the Houston area. In 1999, Sandra joyously added Bible History and Literature, an elective fully accredited by the state and offered to grades 9-12. With a desire to see more people develop an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, Sandra later wrote a book, copyrighted in 2004, entitled The Best Seat in the House and subsequently published the School of Character, a curriculum for changing young people’s lives. Her second book, How To Meet And Marry Your Covenant Mate, detailing the miracles God worked to bring her own covenant mate, was published in 2011. Later, her third book entitled Proof For A Personal God (copyrighted in 2022) is an account of her own encounters with God, proving His great desire to shower all His creation with His unconditional love and to rescue them from death and destruction. In 2023, Sandra’s greatest desire is to see youth molded into the image of Christ so that He might be the firstfruit of many brethren (Romans 8:29). (Proof For A Personal God may be purchased from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.)
James (Jim) N. Sommerfrucht
Graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in petroleum engineering. He spent 34 years with Exxon during which time he worked in the US, North Africa, South America, Australia, and southeast Asia. Having lived in the tropics in both hemispheres, Jim became intrigued with tropical fruit. He raised over 50 varieties of citrus, twenty varieties of mangoes, five varieties of starfruit, dragon fruit, bananas, plus numerous uncommon fruit like chocolate pudding fruit and litchis. Now living in North Texas, he grows peaches, pears, persimmons, figs, and vegetables. Before he moved to North Texas, Jim married Sandra in 2008, and they moved closer to Mansfield where her family resides and Plano where one daughter and two grandsons live. One daughter lives in Virginia. Always very active church members, Jim and Sandra attend Trinity Church in Cedar Hill, Texas. Whereas Sandra is the primary presenter of the School of Character, Jim mainly manages the operational elements of the School.