About Us

About dca

A summary of our accreditation, beliefs, mission, vision, purpose, and philosophy

Accreditation

In 2018, after completing a rigorous self-study process, Dublin Christian Academy hosted a team of educators for a peer review. The visiting team recommended Dublin Christian Academy for full accreditation to the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) Accreditation Commission. The AACS Accreditation Commission voted February 4, 2019, to grant full accreditation to Dublin Christian Academy for five years. DCA completed a second self-study and peer review in 2023 and received reaccreditation approval for another 5 years on February 5, 2024. DCA submits reports and additional curriculum requirements to the AACS Accreditation Commission annually to maintain our accreditation.

Purpose of Christian Education

Dublin Christian Academy is dedicated to the purpose of developing Christian leadership. We feel that the greatest need of our nation and world today is well-trained Christian leaders. We also feel that the greatest need of every Christian young person is to have the opportunity and advantages that a Christian education affords.

Because of these convictions, it is the purpose of Dublin Christian Academy to provide the best in academic instruction with a strong Christian emphasis. Discipline, self-control, and individual responsibility are woven into every phase of the program. In addition, there are many opportunities for the development of individual talents and abilities.

Priority of Christian Education

Assisting parents in fulfilling the Biblical mandate to “bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” is the reason for our existence. Education cannot be neutral; education must be based on God’s truth and consistent with Biblical principles. Christian education should work in harmony with the home and church to produce the Christian leaders of tomorrow.

OUR BELIEFS | STATEMENT OF FAITH

Holy Scriptures

We believe that the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writings; that God has perfectly and completely preserved His Word; that the Scriptures are, and do not merely contain, the Word of God; that they afford the basis for our doctrine, practice, and habits both in public and private life; and that they are the supreme and final authority.

Godhead

We believe in the one living and Triune God Who is the perfect and infinite Spirit and the source and end of all things; that He is eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and these three persons of the Godhead each possess equally the perfections of personality, self-existence, immutability, truth, love, holiness, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

Creation

We believe that the Genesis account of creation is to be accepted literally and not allegorically or figuratively; that man was created directly in God’s own image and after His own likeness; that man’s creation was not a matter of evolution or evolutionary change of species, or a development through interminable periods of time from lower to higher forms; and that all animal and plant life were made directly by God in six literal, twenty-four hour periods.

Person of Satan

We believe that Satan was once holy and enjoyed heavenly honors, but through pride and self-centered ambition to be as the Almighty, fell and drew after him a host of angels; that he is now the malignant prince of the power of the air and the unholy god of this world whose powers are limited by the permissive will of God.

Nature of Man

We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God; that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved and utterly unable, of himself, to remedy his lost condition.

Church

We believe that the Church universal, designated in the Scriptures as the body and espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this present age; and that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament. Salvation of Man We believe that the salvation of man is and always has been wholly of grace through faith and made possible through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the only atonement for sins; that the death of the Lord Jesus Christ for man was a voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner’s place, the just dying for the unjust, the Lord bearing man’s sins in His own body on the tree that man might be pardoned and receive the gift of eternal life; and that no man is justified before God by any works of righteousness which he has done but solely through faith in the Redeemer’s shed blood; that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by the power of God and are thus secure in Christ forever!

Spiritual Gifts

We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowing of all His gifts; that the gifts of evangelists, pastors, and teachers are sufficient for the perfecting of the saints today; that speaking in tongues and the working of authenticating miracles gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority established; that even though sickness together with every disorder and evil in human life are effects of the fall of man, divine forgiveness of sins is in His atonement; and that God does hear and answer the prayer of faith, in accord with His own will, for the sick and afflicted.

Human Sexuality

We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity should be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex.

Last Things

We believe that the souls of the redeemed at death are absent from the body and present with the Lord where, in conscious bliss, they await the first resurrection when the spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord; that the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery until the second judgment when body, soul, and spirit reunite; that they shall appear before the Great White Throne Judgment and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment; and that the return of Christ for His bride, the Church, will be Pre-tribulational and Pre-millennial.

Abortion

We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of unborn human life. Abortion is murder. We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selections, birth or population control, or mental well-being of the mother are acceptable.

EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY | OUR BELIEFS APPLIED TO EDUCATION

1. Christian education is focused upon imparting truth. God is the source of all truth. He has revealed Himself to us through His creation, His Son, and His Word which is inerrant, authoritative, and sufficient (Psalm 8:2-4, Heb 1:1-3, 2 Tim 3:16,17).

2. Christian education concerns itself with the whole person and produces growth, academically, physically, spiritually, and socially (Luke 2:52, Romans 12).

3. Christian education fosters a spirit of service to God and others (1 Cor. 12).

4. Christian education is delivered by teachers who are fully devoted to instructing the students in the glorious truths found in God’s creation and His Word (Colossians 1:28, Prov 1:7).

5. Christian education includes staff who is fully devoted to demonstrating Christ likeness through serving God and others in their day-to-day life.

6. Christian education encourages each individual to develop their unique God-given abilities for the glory of God.

7. Christian education inspires students to love God, love others, and live their life to advance the gospel.

CORE VALUES | HOW OUR FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY SHAPE OUR EXISTENCE

Absolute allegiance to the authority of Scripture

Absolutely consumed with Christ and reflecting Him into the lives of others

Absolute consecration of resources to discipleship ministry

Absolute devotion to walk by faith and not by sight

PURPOSE | WHY WE EXIST

DCA exists to make disciples of Christ who love God, love others, and live their life to advance the gospel.

MISSION | WHAT WE DO

Our mission is to …

Nurture Hearts through loving interaction that emulates Christ

Train Minds to develop a worldview characterized by submission to the Bible and its application to daily life

Grow Lives to develop Christ-like character in all areas of life

VISION | WHAT WE ARE AIMING FOR

We are committed to using every resource and opportunity God give us to cultivate and educate disciples of Christ who love God, loves others, and live their lives to advance the gospel.

We desire to foster a deep, abiding love for God within the hearts of our students by amplifying His attributes, His truth, and His character through His Word in every class, event, meeting, and program at DCA. We desire that students would see a love for God exemplified in the lives of the faculty, staff and other students.

A natural result of this foundational pursuit is a desire to help our students to love others wholeheartedly. We purpose to inspire our students to extend the love they receive from God to their fellow human beings. We aspire to be a community marked by a genuine love for others that is evident in every aspect of DCA life.

Our commitment to advancing the gospel is unwavering. We believe that the message of the gospel is the only hope for a lost and dying world. Through our education, we purpose to equip students to actively contribute to the advance of the gospel by utilizing their God-given talents and resources wherever God may lead them.

Qui esse sumus

nunc venimus

What we are to be, we are now becoming