The Lord is working in miraculous ways at Christian Academy of San Antonio (C.A.S.A.), a nondenominational Christian school located on the west side of San Antonio, Texas. The 75,000 square foot building, now serving as a state-of-the-art school, for years served the community as a large shopping center with a grocery store, a movie theater, and a dance hall.
The building was abandoned for 11 years before the Lord led several people to the vacant, dirty, and graffiti-covered building. Planted in their hearts and minds was a dream of using this building to serve the Lord through educating the socioeconomically disadvantaged students of the west side. After prayer and eight months of remodeling, the school was opened in the fall of 2000, holding 250 prekindergarten through sixth grade students. The student population is 100 percent Hispanic, though the school does not discriminate in its admission.
Many of the students are able to attend C.A.S.A. through scholarships from a special program of the Children First America, a program with the goal of expanding school choice for the west side school district.
C.A.S.A. offers a challenging program designed to meet the academic, spiritual, and physical needs of students. The school hosts a highly developed computer network, a beautifully designed 600-seat theater, and 40 spacious classrooms. The children are developing physically with the aid of a large gymnasium, soccer field, track, and baseball diamond. Through daily devotionals in the classrooms, testimonies from the teachers, and a weekly Bible study available to the parents, the children and parents of C.A.S.A. are discovering the immeasurable love and grace of Jesus Christ.
The faculty and staff are comprised of experienced and certified Christian teachers who are dedicated to the education of the whole child. They are people of the highest personal, spiritual, and academic standards.
The key to the success of C.A.S.A. is the partnership of an entire community working together to educate children, with the guidance and blessing of the Lord. With hopes of expanding the school through twelfth grade in the coming years, the faculty, staff, and families of Christian Academy of San Antonio continue to thank God for the ways that they are able to see Him at work each day in the lives of His children.
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