End-of-Year Matching Grant Announcement!
Dear ACA Parents & Friends,
As we reflect on a decade of ACA, I’ve been thinking about how God has used our school to make us courageous: He has asked all of us, over and over again, to trust that He is faithful and to follow His lead. Growing a classical, Christian school is hard work, and God has shown us the fruit of that hard work in our students’ abundant joy, deepening faith, ever-expanding curiosity, and sharp thinking. Our faculty not only equip students with knowledge, but also with wisdom and understanding and a love for truth, beauty, and goodness. Our families rally around each other, in good seasons and in difficult ones.
I have a growing suspicion—Ok, it’s an outright conviction—that all this goodness isn’t meant for us alone: It’s a gift to our children and families, yes, but it’s also a gift to our broader community and to generations of children who come after ours. My biggest prayer for ACA is that in hundreds of years, the school is still a place that disciples young men and women and then sends them out to influence and shape wherever God calls them. I love the idea of countless ACA graduates spread around the globe, leading and serving and glorifying Christ.
Every year about this time, we ask you to prayerfully consider supporting ACA in our annual Augustine giving campaign, and here I am again! This year, donors have offered us a matching-grant of $40,000: Every dollar donated up to this amount is matched by these generous donors. Our goal for the entire campaign is $100,000.
When you join us in this effort, your gifts go to the following areas:
—Scholarships: Ever year—as a matter of carrying out our commitment to making classical, Christian education as accessible as possible—ACA meets families’ demonstrated need and provides tuition assistance in that amount. When ACA awards these gifts, we step forward in faith that God will provide what we need, and He always has.
—Curriculum and instruction: High-quality curricula and good teachers are central to ACA’s mission! Help us continue to support our faculty and use the finest teaching tools available.
—Preschool: As you likely read earlier this month, both of ACP’s campuses are rated an impressive Level 4 by Colorado Shines, the state agency that examines early-childhood programs and rates them on dozens of criteria. Your gifts here allow us to give our earliest learners the best resources and the sweetest introduction to school!
—Related arts: Music, art, and P.E. are among our students’ favorite programs. They bring new ways of learning (and important brain development!) to students’ lives. Our teachers always have need for additional classroom tools and supplies to enhance those robust curricula.
When my family makes our donation this year, I’m going to pray that those dollars don’t simply support ACA this year, but that God multiplies them like the loaves and the fishes to feed students decades and centuries from now. Please join me!
In Christ alone,
Hilary Oswald
ACA Board Vice-Chair
PS: You can make your gift by writing a check to Augustine Classical Academy and dropping it off at the Lakewood campus front office or mailing it to 480 S. Kipling St., Lakewood, CO 80226. You can also give online at https://www.augustineclassical.org/donate.