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News from our schools within the Mid-Atlantic region

Spring Valley Academy, Ohio Conference, 22 Students Participate in Short-Term Mission Work, LaFollette church, Camp Galilee

Spring Valley Academy (SVA) has long believed in the importance of mission trips. This academic year, students will have the opportunity to take a mission trip to Kenya in Spring 2025, with the possibility of two more international mission trips during that same period. But this past summer, Chaplain Joel Greve led a group on a mission trip much closer to home.

Graduate Thanks Academy for Wonderful Experience, Blue Mountain Academy, Pennsylvania Conference, Isaac Sosa

Isaac Sosa wasn’t happy when his parents told him he would be going to Blue Mountain Academy (BMA) for his junior year of high school. “As a kid who had all the freedom in the world at home, when my parents told me that I was coming here, I was very upset,” he remembers. “I thought, I’m going to have all these rules and restrictions put on me, so why would I want to be in a place like that?”