Introduction of Organization

Great Oaks Christian Academy is a non-profit Mississippi corporation founded in January, 2005.  Presently the Board is seeking funding to build an edifice to house a pre-school and grades K-3 elementary school.  In the future, GOCA intends to expand its edifice to accommodate grades 4-12 high school.  The following is its mission and vision statements:

Great Oaks Christian Academy
Vision Statement

The vision of Great Oaks Christian Academy - in partnership and collaboration with parents, the community and stakeholders - is to create a safe, comfortable, aesthetically beautiful environment with a Christian culture where students can learn to write clearly; compute adequately; think logically, morally and ethically; reason and use information to solve problems to the fullest degree and discover and develop their latent potentials through a Classical Christian Education.  Our goal is to equip our students to impact the world for the Lord Jesus Christ with Christ-like principles, socially, economically, politically, morally and spiritually through the foreknowledge, grace, mercy, and compassion of God, and the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit which will form a strong foundation for lifelong learning.

Great Oaks Christian Academy
Mission Statement

The Mission of Great Oaks Christian Academy - in partnership and collaboration with parents, the community and stakeholders - is to provide an excellent education to students on all achievement levels, including 'at-risk' students, through a Classical Christian Education which entails educating them to read with comprehension; write clearly; compute accurately; think logically, morally and ethically; reason effectively and use information to solve problems, all with an emphasis on Business, Technology and Entrepreneurship, so they will impact the world for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Great Oaks Christian Academy
Department of Business Education Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of Business Education at Great Oaks Christian Academy is to promote the success of all students and to enrich the community at-large by providing excellent academic instructions in business education and extending counseling and consulting services to parents, the community and stakeholders, so that they may become economically responsible in the areas of business management, develop high accountability standards, and learn to manage valuable recourses in an efficient Christ-like manner, in support of the academic activities of Great Oaks Christian Academy.

Great Oaks Christian Academy Non-Discriminatory Policy

The Great Oaks Christian Academy will admit students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.  It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in employment, administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administeredprograms.

GOCA will require that parents of students agree to take an active role in their child’s education and work with school faculty and staff to help ensure all students’ success, as well as participate in the extended services offered by the institution, if deemed necessary, such as community based programs offered by the Counseling Department and the Business Department.  If a student fails to acquire and maintain a 2.5 GPA at the end of his or her first school year and thereafter, he or she will be placed on academic probation.

GOCA’s Board is committed to providing a quality education to those who want it, regardless of race, creed, or economic or social status.  They are also committed to facilitating the community at-large in functioning as viable and productive entities in society. 

Great Oaks Christian Academy
Academy’s Purpose

The goal of the Board of GOCA is to foster and facilitate the education of the child.  It is recognized that the goal can not be achieved without the involvement of parents and community, for they are essential to the educational development and achievement of the child.  GOCA will require that parents of students agree to take an active role in their child’s/children’s education and work with the faculty and staff of GOCA to help ensure the success of all students, as well as participate in the extended services offered by the institution, if deemed necessary, such as community based programs offered by the Counseling Department and the Business Department.

The Board of GOCA is committed to providing a quality education to its students, parents, and stakeholders, regardless of race, color, gender, nationalor ethnic origin, creed, or economic or social status.  They are also committed to facilitating the community at-large in functioning as viable and productive entities in society. 

With the construction of an edifice, GOCA will strive to enhance and enrich the lives and work of citizens who reside in Byhalia, MS, Marshall County, and the surrounding areas.  In partnership and collaboration with parents, the community, and stakeholders, GOCA will provide an excellent education for students, with an emphasis on business, technology, and entrepreneurship for the purpose of them positively impacting the immediate community and potentially the world at-large.  The construction of an edifice will be the means by which GOCA provides a quality education for students and child care and after school care services to the affected communities.  It will also advance and sustain the process of educating students and providing specific specialized jobs for local residents.  GOCA will afford the instructions and organizations in the communities a well educated workforce and various other community services.  After the first full school year, GOCA will endeavor to add one grade levels every year, including the construction of facilities, every third year - up to the twelfth grade.

Great Oaks Christian Academy
Doctrinal Statement

The Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernaturally given revelation from God Himself, concerning Himself, His being, nature, character, will and purposes; and concerning man, his nature, need and duty and destiny.  The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and record of historical facts and are given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.  The Scriptures are without error or defect of any kind. 

There is one God, eternally exiting and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

Our Lord Jesus was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin Mary, a lineal descendent of David.  He lived and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as is recorded in the four Gospels.  He was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate.  God raised him from the dead in the body that had been nailed to the cross.  The Lord Jesus after His crucifixion showed Himself to be alive to His disciples, appearing unto them by the space of 40 days.  After this, the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven, and the Father caused Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the Church; when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall He also himself be subject unto the Father, that He may be all in all

The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the form of God and of His own choice laid aside His divine glory and took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men.  In His pre-existent state, He was with God and was God.  He is a divine person possessed of all the attributes of Deity, and should be worshiped as God by angels and man.  Scripture reveals that “In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”  All the words that He spoke during His earthly life were the words of God.  There is absolutely no error of any kind in them, and by the words of Jesus Christ the words of all other teachers must be tested.  

The Lord Jesus Christ became in every respect a real man, possessed of all the essential characteristics of human nature.  He is the “God Man,” the hypostatic union of God and man.  By His death on the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement for sin, by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners.  He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place.  He who knew no sin became sin that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.  The Lord Jesus Christ is coming again to his earth, personally, bodily, and visibly.  The return of our Lord is the blessed hope of the believer, and in it God’s purpose of grace toward mankind will find their consummation.

The Holy Spirit is a person, and is possessed of all the distinctively divine attributes.  He is God. 

Man was created in the image of God, after His likeness, but the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam.  All men, until they accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in heart, morally and spiritually dead through their trespasses and sins.  They cannot see, nor enter the kingdom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit.

Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed the blood, and are born again by the quickening, renewing, cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, through the instrumentality of the Word of God.   

All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men, become children of God and receive eternal life.  They become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.  At death their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness, and at the Second Coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. 

All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment of anguish. 

The Church consist of all those who, in this present dispensation, truly believe in Jesus Christ.  It is the body and bride of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself.  We believe the Church exist in a local and a universal form. 

There is a personal devil, a being of great cunning and power: “The prince of the power of the air,”  “The prince of this world,” The god of this age.”  He can exert vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so.  He shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall be tormented day and night forever; it is the Ekklesia, the called out Assembly of God’s people from the world today. 

God quickens those who obey the gospel of His Son, Jesus Christ.  The Board of GOCA must believe that all humans have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and in time past walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.  But God, who is rich in mercy, quickened us together with Christ and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.  For by grace are we saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in therein.