A LETTER FROM DR. ARNOLD

OOur motto for our “It’s Time!” campaign to renew and expand our 25-year-old elementary facility is “Building To Serve.” What’s the connection, you ask? Quite simply, our mission.

The first words of our mission statement are “To serve families, churches, and the community…” That’s why we build. To serve the Lord, our families, and our community better.

Yes, it’s time for our first permanent building on Cantrell Road to enter the 21st century. But, just as much, we recognize that in order to serve better, we need more space to serve better. The 16,500 square foot addition is dedicated to a cafeteria, library, science exploration room, music, art, nurse station, bathrooms, offices, and common space in the corridors. Every square foot of space is born to serve.

An attitude of service has always been a large strand in the Little Rock Christian Academy DNA. Every day, we engage the mind, heart, and soul of our students to serve the Lord and to serve one another. We are intent on building young characters so they may “regard one another as more important than [ourselves] …” and “to look out for the interests of others.” (Colossians 2:3-4)

In this issue, you will see multiple displays of service. Children offering tooth fairy money to help others, high school students assisting in elementary classrooms, middle school and junior high students heading up a food drive, students of all ages expressing appreciation to faculty members in a myriad of ways, and much more!

As always, I hope you are encouraged by the extension of our ONE ANOTHER theme into a new year of 10,000 REASONS - 10,000 reasons to praise, to pray, to believe, to give thanks, and most of all, 10,000 REASONS TO SERVE!

Gary B. Arnold, Ed.D. President/Head of School @ArnoldDrLRCA

Little Rock Christian Academy

19010 Cantrell Road

Little Rock, AR 72223

501-868-9822 www.LittleRockChristian.com

About the Cover

LRCA has hosted an annual Christingle event since the early years of Walnut Valley Christian Academy. Each year, first and fourth grade students partner to create their Christingle for the candle lighting ceremony. Christingle is a word of German origin meaning “Little Christ Child”. The tradition dates back to the 1700s and is a symbolic object used to celebrate Jesus Christ as the “Light of the World”. It is made of a candle (the light) placed in an orange (the world) and is decorated with a red ribbon signifying Christ’s blood, and sweets symbolizing the earth and four seasons. LRCA students bring change every year for the occasion to raise funds for preselected charitable efforts. This year’s Christingle event raised $1,381.71 to help a Warrior family coping with a recent tragedy.