The Lighthouse Church

2008-2009 School year begins Monday, Aug.18

Open House Schedule

High School...Tuesday, Aug.12...6:30- 8:00

Ridgewood Ave. Preschool and Kindergarten...Tuesday, Aug.12...6:30-7:30

Elementary School...Friday, Aug.15, 6:30- 7:30

Welcome To Lighthouse Christian Academy

For 28 years Lighthouse Christian Academy has been providing excellence in education with thousands of alumni impacting our community, culture and world.

With the leadership of two dynamic pastors/leaders, three great principals, and an excellent faculty and staff of nearly fifty,

"Striving For Excellence"

is more than just a slogan. It is the goal of everything we do. We encourage you to explore the opportunities for preparation for success with an education at LCA.

The Administrators

Pastor Paul Bryan attended Troy State University on a Basketball scholarship majoring in Business Administration.

After college he entered business and quickly moved up the corporate ladder ultimately serving as District Manager for The Eckerd Drug store chain (now CVS drugs) and later, the District manager for Family Dollar stores. He spent the last three and a half years as part of the Lighthouse leadership team serving as Assistant administrator until June, 2006 at which time he became LCA Administrator.

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Pastor Paul Bryan

LCA Administrator

Pastor Deanna Mueller graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor�s degree and a master�s degree in Education from Illinois State University. She oversees the academics and assists with the overall administration of our school.

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Pastor Deanna Mueller,

Assistant LCA Administrator

For more information, please phone us at 386-734-GOD1 (4631), or visit any of our three campuses.

You Are Loved At The Lighthouse

and that includes The Lightouse Church...and...Lighthouse Christian Academy.We look forward to meeting you.

Philosophy of Education

The purpose of Lighthouse Christian Academy is to lead each student to Christ, to educate its students for meaningful Christian life and to develop their full potential spiritually, academically, socially and physically. Lighthouse Christian Academy seeks to provide a disciplined campus lifestyle and stimulating curriculum that lead to a commitment to Biblical, moral, and spiritual values.

Lighthouse Christian Academy's purpose and philosophy are based upon a Christian worldview that God is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, the ultimate reality, and the source and essence of all goodness and truth. God has revealed Himself through nature, circumstances of human life and history, but most explicity through His Son, Jesus Christ, as revealed in Holy Scripture, the Bible. The highest good is realized in the exercise of His will and, on the part of man, in comformity to that will.

The ultimate objective of Christian education must be to help young people realize their full potential as human beings in God's perfect will in their lives. Each student must be helped to become a "perfect"--that is a whole, complete, and fully-equipped person in Christ (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Accomplishing this objective involves witnessing to the lost and winning them to Christ, providing for intellectual growth and development through academic studies plus providing opportunities for social activities for wholesome physical exercise and development.

As ultimate reality and truth, God sets standards by which value judgments are to be made. He had revealed Himself and His will most clearly through His Son and His Word; therefore, Christ and the Bible must be central to every subject and activity, including curriculum, co-curriculum activities, athletics, business, and interpersonal relationships of all those associated with the school.

A Christian teacher with a Christian philosophy of education teaches science as God's creation, geography as God's handywork, history as God's dealing with nations of the world, mathematics as a glimpse of God's orderliness and absolute truth, physical education and health as our responsiblity in caring for God's temple, music and art as God's beauty and tools for worship, and improving reading skills to provide an opportunity to read and understand God's Word.

All of this will help the student to relate God to everyday living and hopefully, contribute to making him/her a positive influence for JESUS CHRIST.

Lighthouse Christian Academy joins with parents and the church in a parternership to help train and develop each child to realize his fullest potential as a creation of God. Lighthouse Christian Academy attempts to meet its responsibilty in this partnership by providing a quality education which emphasizes basic skill mastery to equip each to be a contributing, functioning adult in today's society. It seeks to maintain a Christ-centered, Spirit-controlled, Bible-based, pupil-based, pupil-oriented environment. Discipline is developed within the framework of Biblical precepts, including emphasis on love of country and respect for others. It is believed that the consistent implementation of this philosophy will provide for the optimum spiritual, academic, social, and physical development of each child. Lighthouse Christian Academy requires that all teachers and staff be committed, born again Christians.