Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Integrating Faith and Education

Catskill Mountain Christian Academy (CMCA) is currently in our thirteenth year of high powered, high quality, academically excellent, intellectually stimulating and spiritually uplifting Christian education. Our pre-K through 12th grade students continue to score well above the national average across-the-board on standardized testing including the all-important SATs.

CMCA does not position itself as a competitor to public education but really only exists to serve parents who have committed their lives and resources to raising their children without a spiritually divided mind. Christian parents who are willing to sacrifice for their kids to possess a Christian worldview, will receive at CMCA, an unapologetic integration of faith and education, something that, by definition, public schools cannot do.

Like myself, many parents feel like it is important for our children to hear the same moral and spiritual message in school as they do at home. At CMCA, we teach that God is one God; whether at church, school, home or workplace and that His presence and teachings should inform and saturate every aspect of our lives.

Separation of church and state is a concept for the government to dispute, not parents. Parents are admonished by God to "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart fromit" (Prov 22:6).

And also from Deuteronomy 6: "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up (...or pretty much all the time!).

In short, public education, by law, looks at all religions as equal; CMCA unapologetically teaches that God exclusively expresses His will to the human race through the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Holy Bible. And that is why we joyfully open our doors each day to honor God by educating our CMCA children academically and 'in the Light'.

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