SPIRITUAL LIFE
A TAPESTRY OF TRUTH & LOVE SPIRITUAL LIFE AT LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
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By Heather Bennett, Communications Specialist
What do you think of when you hear the phrase spiritual life at LRCA? Mission trips, service projects, chapel and prayer, BWV classes, something else? Spiritual life in Warriorville includes all of these things and so much more!
three times and learning about how Jesus fits into the story from the very beginning. Chapel topics for the year are related to the annual overarching school theme and how it relates to what Mrs. Chami and her team feel their students need to hear and see.
Perhaps Lower School Head Ann Chami captures the essence of it when she conveys, “The joy of the Lord is woven through our teachers and how they communicate with students guided by scriptural principles and throughout every school day. It’s like a tapestry where the bottom side can look rough sometimes…where the work is being done. You turn it over and it’s just beautiful. Sometimes we don’t always see the beauty of it until a child is older, but it’s there. God’s work is being done.”
As in the Elementary, the Middle School gears chapel topics to the school theme. Weekly memory verses are planned and memorized across the student body as well as the faculty and staff. On daily morning announcements, the entire school says the memory verse together. Practical applications, historical contexts, and challenges are discussed.
Mrs. Chami paraphrases one of her favorite quotes by author and child advocate, Wes Stafford, “Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.” Elementary begins and ends every day with prayer, recognizing the Lord’s presence in the school and how it's needed for the day. A recurring phrase in her prayers over the intercom is “Father, help us to consider others more important than ourselves.” The Bible is infused in “everything we do”, according to Mrs. Chami. Biblical foundations are taught in Elementary. Students progress out of the House of Love to Middle School having gone through the Bible roughly 16 THE WARRIOR • SPRING 2022
Transformation Day themes have intentional built-in opportunities for spiritual as well as educational transformation. There are gender specific Bible studies on Tuesdays conducted by Mike Risher, Will Edmondson, and parent volunteers. These are more intensive opportunities to break down topics and issues students are facing. Compass times also provide perfect scenarios to check in with students. “We try to build it into everything we do with intentionality. Our teachers do an excellent job integrating authentic Biblical Worldview into the classroom. Scripture is used in behavior situations, so students can think through how to make things right and walk through repairing and building relationships biblically. We also call students into the office consistently just
