Moses Lake Christian Academy

School History

Moses Lake Christian Academy was formed in 2002 by joining the combined 50 years of Christian Education experience of Day Star Christian Academy and Moses Lake Christian School.  In 1975, the Church in Moses Lake founded Day Star Christian Academy and First Baptist Church of Moses Lake founded Moses Lake Christian School.  Through the years, these two institutions worked to meet the needs of the Moses Lake area Christian community by providing quality, Christ-centered education.  During the 2001 – 2002 school year, leaders from both schools recognized the need to come together to better serve families interested in Christian Education.   The process of joining schools also became a genuine expression of Christian unity by setting aside past differences to bring together faculty, staff and families from many churches and denominations.  Psalm 133 set the context for the two to become one:

Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

It is like the precious oil on the head,

Running down on the beard,

On the beard of Aaron,

Running down on the collar of his robes!

It is like the dew of Hermon,

Which falls on the mountains of Zion!

For there the LORD has commanded the blessing,

Life forevermore.

Today, Moses Lake Christian Academy (MLCA) serves families from many churches in the Moses Lake area with an enrollment, Preschool through 12^th grade, which has grown from 190 in 2002 to over 294 students in the 2006 – 2007 school year.  MLCA, or “The Academy” as it has become known, has established a strong academic program that prepares students for the next step in life, whether preparing a Preschooler for learning to read in Kindergarten or preparing Secondary students for college by providing a strong liberal arts education.  A competitive athletics program for boys and girls compliments the academics as well as Extended Learning opportunities that take students out of a formal classroom and into learning and service projects in the Northwest, Mexico and Europe.  The Academy takes inspiration from the book Piety and Philosophy by Richard Riesen, a long-time Christian educator and Administrator.  In advocating Christian Education with a strong emphasis upon the liberal arts, Riesen writes,

“The entire case for liberal learning could be summed up in a single remark, made, as recounted by former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, by one of his teachers at university: ‘Nothing you learn here at Oxford will be of the slightest possible use to you later, save only this:  that if you work hard and intelligently, you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot.’

There you have it:  to be able to detect when a man (or woman) – whether professor or politician or preacher – is talking nonsense.  That one ability, if we could but teach it, model it, somehow inculcate it, would be worth the entire academic enterprise – because, in the end, the ability to detect rot is really the ability to see through things, to sort out the true from the false, to be undeceived.  And how absolutely essential to our own and our society’s sanity to be able to do so; and being able to do so, as Macmillan’s teacher went on to say, ‘is the main, if not the sole purpose of education.’”

Where better to pursue the truth than in an educational environment founded upon the one who is The Truth, Jesus Christ?  To Him be the glory in Moses Lake Christian Academy always and in all ways.