About

Mission Statement

 

We Promise to teach each student to know God personally as Father, Friend, and Almighty God, so that they might know the full extent of their potential and purpose given to them by God.

      Freedom Christian Academy partners with parents to: guide their child to academic success, create and maintain a spirit of excellence and victory, and cultivate Godly character traits through developing a relationship with God, and living out His divine will for their lives. To experience God in a real way, every day.

    "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it"   

                                                -Proverbs 22:6

History

 

    Founded in 1978 by Pastor George and Nancy Pogue, Freedom in Christ Church has been a pillar of the community and a guiding light leading many to the Love of God. Pastor George started the church in his home with just a few members and the Lord has now grown that congregation manyfold. Freedom in Christ Church has helped many break free from addictions and depression with a strong message of Faith and a close relationship with the Heavenly Father.

    In 2003, Pastor George Pogue handed the position of Pastor over to his son, John Pogue, who got a degree at Rhema Bible Training Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Since then the church has continued to grow in every way possible including spiritually. A new location at 4042 Sycamore Grove Road, Chambersburg PA provided plenty of land for expansion and a creek behind the property for on site baptisms. 

    Pastor John's son, Dane Pogue, also attended Rhema but with a degree in Children and Youth Ministries and soon took the position of Youth Pastor at Freedom in Christ Church. Together, father and son felt a strong calling to focus on the children more than ever.

    In 2021 Freedom in Christ Church built an expansive gymnasium and office building, the Ruth Hain Fellowship Center. This building would become the inspiration and location of a private Christian school named Freedom Christian Academy. Dane Pogue's wife, Inayah Pogue has a spirit of excellence when it comes to teaching and leading children, and together they took on the challenge of forming and organizing this new and exciting Private Christian School, FCA.

    Freedom Christian Academy aims to be a school that Christian parents can truly trust to teach their children both in the ways of the Lord and the same spirit of excellence in education and life. 2022 marks the first year of this school and FCA plans on expanding each and every year as the Lord brings the children of the community in to be fed spiritually and academically. 

Curriculum

 

Curriculum and Supervisor’s Role

Freedom Christian Academy is an A.C.E. School

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CURRICULUM

  • A. C. E. stands for Accelerated Christian Education.
  • The A. C. E. Curriculum was developed 52 years ago in 1970.
  • The A.C.E. International Curriculum Development team of 18 consists of 3 members possessing Doctorate of Education degrees, 2 members holding Masters Degrees in Education and most of the remaining team members holding Bachelor’s degrees in Education.  There are an additional 62 team members working out of the corporate offices in Hendersonville, Tennessee with another 35 employees staffing the A.C.E. warehouse in Texas.
  • The A.C.E. curriculum is currently in its 4th revision, constantly incorporating feedback from the many regional field representatives.
  • At any given time there are nearly a million students, world-wide, learning in A.C.E. schools.
  • All prospective students take a computer-based diagnostic test to establish their levels of proficiency in various subjects.  This will determine exactly where they start within the curriculum.
  • This allows students to learn at their own “pace”. 
  • The A.C.E. curriculum is ‘Christ-centric”, reinforcing Biblical principles from Kindergarten through 12th grade.  Students in higher grades will memorize nearly 100 scripture verses throughout the course of an academic year. 
  • The A.C.E. curriculum is presented to students in a Learning Center with Supervisors and Monitors to assist them in their learning endeavors.
  • The curriculum is broken down into PACEs (Packets of Accelerated Christian Education). Think of PACEs as chapters within a student’s textbook.
  • A student’s workload for the year consists of 5 to 7 subjects (English, Math, Science, etc.) depending on their course of study. Each subject consists of 12 PACEs per year. 
  • There are four courses of study, or tracks, a student may pursue:
  1. Honors
  2. College Preparatory
  3. General
  4. Vocational
  • A student must demonstrate mastery of the subject material within a pace through self-tests, check-ups and a final comprehensive test.
  • When a student passes the final comprehensive test for a PACE, he or she then moves on to the next PACE.
  • If a student does not quite gain mastery over the subject material in a particular PACE, he or she will repeat the PACE, receiving assistance from the Learning Center Supervisors when needed.
  • Students are not spoon-fed subject material from the front of a classroom by a teacher trained to present material at the median comprehension level of the class.  That method of teaching allows students struggling with material to “fall behind” while preventing students who pick up the material quickly from moving ahead.  That lock-step approach to education is a recipe for failure as struggling students are lost or left behind and gifted students quickly become bored.
  • The A.C.E. curriculum allows students to digest material and gain knowledge at their level of ability while assisting struggling students to “catch up” within subjects through the use of “Gap-PACEs”.
  • Students grade their own classwork at a “grading station”, returning to their “student offices” to review any incorrect work. When ready, they sit at a “testing table” to take their final comprehensive test.

SUPERVISORS / MONITORS

  • Supervisors are present within the learning Center to assist students by helping them to critically-think and reason-through subject material when needed.  They do not “give away” answers.
  • Monitors assist the Supervisors by helping students with other non-academic issues and help students follow Learning Center procedures so they can get the most out of the A.C.E. program.
  • Both Supervisors and Monitors take a personal interest in your child’s academic success and routinely form relationships that will last throughout their school experience and beyond.

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