This scholarship was set up to send students to Abilene Christian University in honor of Rachel’s
The Rachel Blasingame Scholarship Fund, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was created to assist deserving High School Seniors in meeting tuition requirements at Abilene Christian University. Each spring, a golf tournament is held to provide funds for the scholarship program. To date, these efforts have raised over $170,000 and assisted 145 freshman to attend ACU in the 13 years since Rachel's passing. Her spirit continues to live on by fulfilling college dreams for others.
01/01/2024
Someone had damaged Rachel’s cross so Guy had to nail it back together and repaint it. Rachel’s legacy lives on with that cable barrier stretched down I-635, continuing to prevent crossover accidents from happening, almost 20 years later!
12/12/2023
We are so thankful to have 2 more recipients of the Rachel Blasingame Scholarship Fund this year—so that these students can attend Abilene Christian University. If you would like to help contribute towards Rachel’s Endowment Fund, the contact information is on the newsletter. God bless you all!
20 years since Rachel’s passing and the emotions can still come flooding in over us. We put away all the cards and notes received and didn't review them until now thinking that enough time had gone by that we wouldn't be affected by them. But we are, greatly affected. The pain is not as great as then, but the feelings and emotions are still as fresh. We can't help but wonder what might have been; how different our lives would be. But we know so many lives have been changed, so many touched by your short, wonderful life; so many attending ACU; so many spared by a cable barrier; so many remembered and honored by a highway sign. We will never know all the stories.
The cards and letters, and these messages here, remind us of how much you were loved because you loved. They remind us that a person's worth in life is not measured by time and years lived but by the amount of love they give and how the world was changed because they lived.
We love you and we miss you, but we know we will see you soon.
Dad
Guy Blasingame
Family
02/08/2023
Sorry for the delay—this newsletter tells of our newest ACU scholarship recipient, honoring Rachel’s memory!
12/08/2020
Here is our annual RBSF newsletter. Merry Christmas!
05/11/2020
Thanks, Ken Leonard, for posting this!❤️
This reminded me of Rachel Blasingame and made me smile though she’s been gone for almost 17 years. She used to read her Bible under the covers when she was supposed to be asleep. Now she’s an angel. She was just a few weeks short of her 17th birthday. It occurs to me that as of last week, she has been in heaven longer than she was here with us. She is still very alive in our hearts.
Now she can drink in the word directly from the Master. That’s a very cool thought.
03/15/2020
Thank you so much, to the mystery person, who lovingly put a beautiful red heart flower on Rachel’s cross, added a nice, metal flower decoration, AND a solar-powered light, to light up her cross at night time! What a wonderful act of kindness that someone took the time to do this off I-635 in Mesquite!
02/23/2020
We were so thrilled to attend the President’s Circle Dinner at Abilene Christian University last night, representing the Rachel Blasingame Scholarship Endowment Fund! God has helped so many students to be able to attend ACU through this fund!
12/12/2019
Have a Merry Christmas! If you would like to bless a student’s life, consider donating towards the Rachel Blasingame Scholarship Fund! God bless you all!
We're saying goodbye to the golf tournaments, but look to the future for other ways to continue to fund scholarships!