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"The mission of WCA is to educate and train students from Christian families in accordance with the Bible, God's inerrant word, leading to the Bibilical world view for lifelong service to Christ."

The WCA Mission Statement is designed to express the purpose of the school briefly and definitively. Since some terms used on the Mission Statement may have different meanings to different people, we submit the following definitions for clarification.

1. Educate and Train: These terms reflect overlapping aspects of our mission. The word "educate" emphasizes the intellectual or cognitive side and has classroom primarily inview. It is our intention to achieve excellence in this area, providing a "quality education" for our students. "Train" emphasizes the spiritual, moral, and social side of our mission. "Training" includes classroom activity, but goes beyond the classroom to athletics and other co-curricular activities which make up the life of a school. It is our purpose to instill Biblical values through the whole complex of school activities, cultivating Christian attitudes and lifestyles in our students.

Proverbs 22:6*

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Matthew 22:37*

Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

2. Christian Families: A Christian family is a family that is committed to Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and is demonstrating this by active membership in a Bible believing church. At least one parent must demonstrate this commitment ti Christ on order to gain admision of their child(ren) to WCA. Exceptions may be made for young people who have professed faith in Christ even though their parents are not believers.

Deutoronomy 6:4-9*

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Ephesians 6:1-4*

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise-- "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."w Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

3. The Bible, God's Inerrant Word: The Bible is our supreme and final authority in education as well in all other matters of faith and life. The Bible is fully inspired of God, so that, even though it was given through human authors, it is entirely free from error. This high view of scripture is foundational to education at WCA.

II Timothy 3:16*

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

II Peter 1:20-21*

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

4. World View: Modern Secular education has a man-centered view of the world, and teaches from this perspective. Christian education at WCA has a God-centerd view of the world and teaches every subject from that point of view. God is creator and sustainer of all things, the One who gives beauty and order to life. He is sovereign all events, directing history toward the final day of judgement and redemption.

Psalm 19:1-5*

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

John 1:1-5*

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

5. Life-long service to Christ: Our purpose is not to merely prepare students to "get a job" or "succeed in a career," but to help them hear Christ calling them to a life of service to Him. Like the first disciples of Jesus, we want our students to see all of life as a calling from the Lord, a vocation in the highest sense. Thus, their marriages, their jobs, their hobbies, and their friendships are all a part of their mission, which is is to advance the kingdom of God.

Matthew 28:19*

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:1-2*

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.


	THE WEB OF SKATEBOARDING \| home PAGE 4 "The mission of WCA is to educate and train students from Christian families in accordance with the Bible, God's inerrant word, leading to the Bibilical world view for lifelong service to Christ." The WCA Mission Statement is designed to express the purpose of the school briefly and definitively. Since some terms used on the Mission Statement may have different meanings to different people, we submit the following definitions for clarification. 1. Educate and Train: These terms reflect overlapping aspects of our mission. The word "educate" emphasizes the intellectual or cognitive side and has classroom primarily inview. It is our intention to achieve excellence in this area, providing a "quality education" for our students. "Train" emphasizes the spiritual, moral, and social side of our mission. "Training" includes classroom activity, but goes beyond the classroom to athletics and other co-curricular activities which make up the life of a school. It is our purpose to instill Biblical values through the whole complex of school activities, cultivating Christian attitudes and lifestyles in our students. Proverbs 22:6* Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Matthew 22:37* Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 2. Christian Families: A Christian family is a family that is committed to Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and is demonstrating this by active membership in a Bible believing church. At least one parent must demonstrate this commitment ti Christ on order to gain admision of their child(ren) to WCA. Exceptions may be made for young people who have professed faith in Christ even though their parents are not believers. Deutoronomy 6:4-9* Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Ephesians 6:1-4* Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise-- "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."w Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. 3. The Bible, God's Inerrant Word: The Bible is our supreme and final authority in education as well in all other matters of faith and life. The Bible is fully inspired of God, so that, even though it was given through human authors, it is entirely free from error. This high view of scripture is foundational to education at WCA. II Timothy 3:16* All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, II Peter 1:20-21* Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 4. World View: Modern Secular education has a man-centered view of the world, and teaches from this perspective. Christian education at WCA has a God-centerd view of the world and teaches every subject from that point of view. God is creator and sustainer of all things, the One who gives beauty and order to life. He is sovereign all events, directing history toward the final day of judgement and redemption. Psalm 19:1-5* The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. John 1:1-5* In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. 5. Life-long service to Christ: Our purpose is not to merely prepare students to "get a job" or "succeed in a career," but to help them hear Christ calling them to a life of service to Him. Like the first disciples of Jesus, we want our students to see all of life as a calling from the Lord, a vocation in the highest sense. Thus, their marriages, their jobs, their hobbies, and their friendships are all a part of their mission, which is is to advance the kingdom of God. Matthew 28:19* Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Romans 12:1-2* Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.