PHILOSOPHY OF FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST ACADEMY

The Friendship Baptist Academy was organized in November of 2005
to assist parents in their God-given responsibility of teaching and
training their own children, bringing them up in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord. The primary goal of FBA is to partner with
parents in the preparation of their young people for a life of service
to the Lord in a lost world that rejects Biblical Truth. FBA seeks to
supplement the home academically and complement the home spiritually.
Academically, students are offered a sound, broad based curriculum that
will give them a solid foundation for further studies after graduation
and/or for the work force. Spiritually, it is our desire for each of our
students to know Christ as their personal Saviour and to dedicate their
lives to do His perfect will, whatever that may be. Through Biblical
integration of all subject matter, the faculty will seek to facilitate
the application of God's principles in the students' daily lives, thus
encouraging discernment and spiritual growth beyond salvation. The
building of Christian character will be emphasized as it is remembered
that FBA does not primarily exist to train children how to make a
living, but rather how to live. A child needs to grow as Jesus Himself
grew, as defined in Luke 2:52, “And Jesus increased in wisdom and
stature, and in favour with God and man.” “Wisdom” is intellectual
growth; “Stature” is physical growth; “In favor with God” is spiritual
growth; and “In favor with man” is social growth.
True education conforms to the ideal set forth in Scripture, and it
involves the total development of the born-again believer. For this
reason, only “born-again” applicants in grades 7-12 who express a desire
to attend FBA are admitted. Though evangelism is more prevalent in the
younger students and may also occur in the upper grades, FBA exists to
provide training (spiritual, academic, physical, and social) for
Christian young people as an extension of their Christian homes.
FBA is an integral ministry of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church;
thus it maintains and teaches, without apology, the same doctrinal
position as set forth in the Constitution and the Doctrinal Statement of
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.
Our School
Quality Christian Education
Serving grades K through 12
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31