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Adding Wisdom to Knowledge.
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The VisionFrom the Headmaster
We are coming to the end of the first quarter of our fifth year. There are so many new things being accomplished by the wonderful and excellent staff and faculty that God has given us. This has also been the most organized professional year beginning that we have had. Much thanks is given to the faculty and volunteers to their dedication and patience. We now look forward to doing our job, training young people. One of our most important emphasis is ministry mindedness. This contrasts us to other educational systems that focus on business quota. Our school is a ministry, not a business and our focus is on ministering the character of Christ to every child’s individual need. We look forward to continued excellence in Richmond Academy’s ministry to its families. -Dr. S. Chad Ross
Fourteen Ways You Can Help
1. Pray for us. 2. Give a memorial or honorarium gift to the Triune Fund 3. Remember Richmond Academy in your will 4. Purchase items at our Spirit Shop 5. Schedule us to visit your church or ask your pastor to speak at our chapel 6. Sign up for “.org News” www.richmondacademy.org 7. Turn in Box Tops for Education ($.10/label) 8. Link us to your website or advertise on ours 9. Volunteer your time 10. Turn in empty ink and toner cartridges ($3/cartridge) 11. Donate goods 12. Talk to your employer about sponsoring us 13. Hand out brochures at work or church 14. Recommend our school to other families
Need Based Scholarships
Richmond Academy is known in the community for already having the lowest tuition and the highest quality of education. Now you may be eligible to receive a partial scholarship to Richmond Academy for private Christian education if: · You have one child in lower school and have an annual income less than $28,800 a year · You have two children in lower school and have an annual income less than $51,840 a year · You have three children in lower school and have an annual income less than $69,120 a year · Scholarships also available for families with children in kindergarten or upper school Call today. Scholarship applications are free. We want to meet your need. You have nothing to lose.
Changing Our Community, One Child at a Time
"... freely ye have received, freely give." Mat. 10:8 (KJV) For $1 a day each month, you can change a child’s life! Every dollar you send to Richmond Academy is used to minister to the spirit, soul and body of our students. Is there anything more important than giving a child a better chance to succeed? We cannot put a price on a child’s future. Your support makes all the difference. We are changing the future, today. Our children raised in safety and purity: priceless.
Goods and Services
We are in need of the following goods: · 1 LCD projector · Sports Equipment · Score table with possession arrows · Scoreboard · Wall pads · Competition volleyball equipment We are in need of the following services: · Grant Writer · Chapel Speaker · Volunteers · Substitute Teachers If you can help in any way, please contact the main office. Do you have a gift or talent that you would like to share with the children? Please contact us about that as well. We are always looking for volunteers to enhance our academic programs.
Christian Values Are Foremost in Christian Education
At the heart of Christian school education is values—Christian values. Christian schools unashamedly embrace Bible-based values, beliefs, and virtues. They also emphasize quality teaching, life skills, discipline, patriotism, character development, a safe environment, and a solid academic program. Thus, Christian schools focus on teaching the head knowledge and the heart Christian values. Most people agree with teaching values in schools. Regrettably, the teaching of biblical values offends some people. But why would anyone oppose the teaching of values simply because the teacher emphasizes the relationship between values and the Bible? Before addressing this question, the discussion needs a definition of the term value. A value is a belief, principle, standard, or trait regarded as meaningful, worthwhile, and desirable to a person, a family, a school, a state, or a society. A person’s values are based upon a belief system. A belief system is how a person thinks in relation to creation, to God, and to sin. No matter how one looks at values and the premises upon which they are based, values are always built upon how a person views God and His teachings as recorded in the Bible. For those who reject the values espoused in the Bible, they develop their own value system, or they adopt a system developed by society or a religion. However, for Christians, values are based on the teaching of Scripture. Therefore, Christians embrace Bible values because they want to honor God in everything they do (Col. 1:18). In relation to education, the issue of values is rooted in the religious premises espoused by the school and its teachers. Since teaching cannot exist in a religiously neutral vacuum, someone’s teachings will prevail in every classroom. The question is, “Whose teachings?” All teaching has a religious premise, whether it is the teacher’s teaching, a textbook’s teaching, or a school’s teaching. All teaching is embedded in philosophy, and philosophy has its biases. Thus, all educational institutions promote a value system, and every value in that system is assumed to be true by its proponents. Interestingly, research shows that social issues such as values, beliefs, and discipline rank decidedly in what parents want in the schools where their children attend. However, research does not define the supporting truths upon which these values are based. Is a value good because society says it is good, the school says it is good, or the teacher says it is good? Christian parents define their values on the basis of biblical teaching, and in turn teach these values to their children. The same principle applies with the schools their children attend. If parents don’t shape their children’s values, someone else will. That someone will teach their value system. Who is this “someone”? How about the school where your child attends’? How about society’s values as promoted by television, Internet, movies, magazines, and music? Which source do you want your child to model his values after— school, society, or the media? Actually, none of these! If you want your child to embrace and practice Christian values, you must model and teach them at home. This would include values such as honesty, trust, truth, responsibility, character, love, forgiveness, respect, tolerance, hard work, and other character development traits. The home is responsible, but the school where your child attends must complement your values, or what you value at home will be negated at school. The Bible tells us in Amos 3:3: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” When it comes to your child’s education, the home and school must be in one accord. All schools teach values, some by preference, some by conviction, and some by law. This is fact! The issue is: “What values do I want taught in my child’s school?” If God is left out of a school’s philosophical value system, then the school is saying that what federal law and society say is OK with me. Think about this. Is it actually OK with you that God is left out of the value and belief system taught at your child’s school? The Bible answers this question for you: “I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal” (Job 27:11). So, what biblical rationale can a Christian parent use in supporting any teaching institution that leaves God and His values outside? This leads to an even more pointed question: Should Christian parents send their children to a school where God has no relevance, where God is omitted from textbooks, where being a Christian is not a prerequisite for teaching, where the Bible’s teachings are considered illegal or politically incorrect, and where Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is despised and held in contempt? I submit to the reader that every Christian’s child should be attending a school where God, His Son, prayer, and the Bible occupy positions of preeminence. To do otherwise is to deny God’s value system.
Dr Charles Walker is the executive director of the American Association of Christian Schools. He also serves as the executive director of the Tennessee Association of Christian Schools.
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