MISSION STATEMENT

The purpose of Sunshine Bible Academy is to provide a K-12 Christian educational system that includes a local day-school elementary education program and a residential secondary education program.  Historically developed in a rural setting, Sunshine Bible Academy continues to serve families from ranches and farms as well as families from urban areas and foreign countries.

The residential component allows Sunshine Bible Academy to be a ministry to families by providing a Christ centered accredited education for families who desire to attend an excellent Christian school in a strong evangelical non-denominational environment.

Students attending Sunshine Bible Academy are provided an accredited academic program in an atmosphere supportive of spiritual, social, and physical development according to a Biblical philosophy of life.  Activities and opportunities will be provided to:

1. Develop within students a respect for learning that will make learning a life-long process.
2. Strive to meet the diversity of individual needs, interests, abilities, and learning styles of students.
3. Enhance the development of responsible citizenship for fulfilling roles of leadership and group participation in life.
4.  Promote basic skills including reading, writing, speaking, listening, observing, critical thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and logic in all students.
5. Encourage students in the appreciation, development of skills, and the exploration of talent in music, drama, physical, and practical arts.
6. Assist students in acquiring knowledge and skills to enhance their physical and mental health, which would enable them to accept in themselves and others the Biblically based importance of feelings, dignity, and self worth.
7. Challenge students through successful learning experiences at their ability level which will guide them in personal, social, ethical, moral, and psychological development, with the ultimate experience being the initiation and maturing growth in Jesus Christ as both Savior and Lord.

PHILOSOPHY

Sunshine Bible Academy is committed to a Biblical philosophy of education, a theistic, God-centered philosophy as opposed to a humanistic, man-centered worldview of life.  We believe that everything is ultimately related to God and that true education must include revelation from God through His Spirit, His creation, His written Word and Son, Jesus Christ.

Since "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge," (Proverbs 1:7), education necessarily must be a process by which we learn to see things from God's point of view.  This process must progress from the learning of Biblical truth to the application of that truth to everyday life.  Because in God the Son, Jesus Christ, the creator, architect, and sustainer "are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:3), we believe all knowledge of truth must be viewed as coming from Him.

We believe the Bible to be the revelation of God's plan and purpose for mankind and a trustworthy authority for faith and practice in the living of the Christian life.  From God's Word we understand that man was created in the image of God, but through the entrance of sin into the human race, man has a basic need to confess his sin, receive salvation from sin, and inherit eternal life through the grace God has given through the life of Jesus Christ.

We believe that Sunshine Bible Academy exists to assist parents with their responsibility to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  We believe parents have the obligation to teach their own children in matters of morality and faith, and that formal schooling should support the efforts of parents.  We believe behaviors are morally right or wrong because God has declared such in His Word, and values for life are true only if they are based upon His Word.  Values based upon principles in God's Word give meaning, purpose, and design, enabling man to respond to God through faith in love and obedience, joyfully doing His will.

We believe that each student has individual worth and dignity, having been created in the image of God; and that the full potential of each student can be developed through the knowledge of Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord and through the disciplined approach to learning in an environment supportive of the pursuit of knowledge and excellence. 

Sunshine Bible Academy is a Christian educational system committed to glorifying God by teaching students to love God and to learn academic, social, spiritual, and physical concepts and skills to live a productive, responsible life in family, church, and civic relationships.

The policies have been established to provide a nurturing environment for the educational, emotional, and spiritual development of young people.  The responsibility for carrying out the goals expressed in the mission statement and the beliefs stated in the philosophy, must be shared by all members of the SBA community.

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God (II Tim. 3:16-17 and II Peter 1:19-21), and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life (Deut. 8:3 and Matt. 5:18).
2. We believe in one God (Deut. 6:4), eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:18-19).
3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary (Matt. 1:16-23), and is true God and true man (John 1:14).
4. We believe that man was created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28); that he sinned and thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God (Gen.3), and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and, in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word, and deed (Rom. 5:12-19).
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures (I Cor. 15:3-4) as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice (Rom. 5:8, 18); and all that believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. (Rom. 4:24-25).
6. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord (I Cor. 15:3-8), in His ascension into heaven (Acts 1:9), and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate (Heb. 4:14-16).
7. We believe in that "blessed hope" (Titus 2:13, I Thess. 4:13-18) – the personal, premillennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
8. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God (Titus 3:5 and Rom. 8:14-16).
9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting, conscious suffering of the lost (Rev. 20:4-21:8).