The Dayspring Foundation

  • Vision Statement
  • Why Christian Education
  • Expected Student Outcomes

Dayspring Foundation Vision

Insuring Opportunity - Sponsor a Student Program

This program will help to provide the eternal gift of a Christian education to those who would not otherwise have the opportunity. The sponsor a student program provides additional funds for those in need over and above current available tuition assistance and scholarships.

  • $5,000 sponsors a student for one year.
  • $2,500 sponsors a student for one semester.
  • $1,250 sponsors a student for one quarter.

Goal for 2011/2012 - $150,000 in available sponsorship dollars.

Enhancing the Experience - Teacher, Textbooks and Technology Campaign

This campaign will provide capital improvements to the facility, upgrade curriculum and technology, and provide teachers with additional resources.

Goal $250,000 over the next 3 years.

Endowing the Future

The Foundation has created three individual endowments to support Christian education for generations to come.

  1. Scholarship Endowment - Goal $3.5 million to provide tuition assistance and scholarships.
  2. General Funds Endowment - Goal $3.5 million to assist Dayspring Christian Academy with annual needs.
  3. Land and Building Endowment - Goal $3 million for future improvements and growth.

Why Christian Education

Public Schools

Christian Schools "What sets Dayspring Apart"

Science: Naturalism – Everything comes from matter, time and chance.

Science: God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things; science involves knowing God through knowing his world.

History: Controlled either by autonomous man or by an impersonal process.

History: Controlled by an omnipotent God who knows the end from the beginning.

Math: A tool that is useful because it seems to work manipulating the natural world.

Math: A reflection of the mind of an orderly God who has made us in his image to understand his world.

English: Literature must be representative of all cultures, which are seen as having equal value, and has no inherent meaning.

English: Students are exposed to a variety of quality literature, which is appreciated as a demonstration of common grace and interpreted in the light of God's world.

Teachers: Varied backgrounds – Christianity of some religion, humanism, atheism; may be straight or gay.

Teachers: Born-again, committed believers seeking to model Christ before their students.

Rules: Determined by state and federal laws and guidelines.

Rules: Determined by God's world and its moral students.

Peers: Varied religious backgrounds, often receiving little moral instruction or values at home or church.

Peers: Students from Christian homes who are there because their parents supports Christian values.

Purpose of Education: To prepare citizens for a humanistic society that tolerates all lifestyles.

Purpose of Education: To prepare citizens for the Kingdom of God Control of Education.

Content of Education: Humanism – no values are absolute and no truth is final.

Content of Education: All of life is studied in submission to the Word of God.

Control of Education: The State determines the content and methods of education.

Control of Education: The school functions in loco parentis, reinforcing and supporting parental values.

Above information provided by www.discoverchristianschools.com

"A tradition of providing superior education from a distinctly Christian perspective."

Expected Student Outcomes

  • Vision

    Christ-centered Education.

  • Mission

    Equipping the heart, soul, mind, and body of each student, from a Biblical perspective, in partnership with the Christian home.

Academic Thinking with a Biblical World View

  • Well developed communication skills
  • Demonstrated proficiency in math and science
  • Appreciation for history, world cultures, art and literature

Spiritual Formation with a Biblical World View

  • Understand and commit to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ
  • Develop and ability to defend Christian faith and embrace the Great Commission
  • Manifest the fruits of the Spirit in daily life
  • Understand value of human life, being created God's image, with the body as His temple

Skill Development with a Biblical World View

  • Ability to utilize resources to find, analyze, and evaluate information
  • Demonstrated problem solving skills
  • Demonstrate stewardship in time, finances and resources
 
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