“Every new school year provides us with the opportunity for a 10-month-long evangelistic experience,” shares Burney Culpepper, principal. “Our most important goal is that each of our students develop a close growing relationship with Jesus and learn to share the joy they have found with others.
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?”
Students from Shenandoah Valley Academy’s Worship Ministry class are learning more about how to worship God, resulting in a deeper relationship with Him.
“Our goal with Bootcamp is to better prepare our leaders to lead,” says event organizer Jacqueline Messenger, associate director for secondary education at the Columbia Union. “We know that being a principal is one of the most difficult jobs in our system and we want to support and grow our principals.”
