It started with a simple request from a member (a
concerned grandmother and teacher in the surrounding area) of Hillcrest Baptist
Church to the pastor of Hillcrest – “Pastor, will you pray about something?” After many “reminders” to be praying about something, Bob
and Debbie Arndt met with the Pastor and an elder from Hillcrest to talk about
what God was placing on their hearts. The next request was a little less simple
– “Pastor, will you consider starting a Christian School in Muscatine?”
The three couples decided to hold an
informational meeting for the broader community to see if there were other
like-minded people in the area. The response was above any expectation, as
around 100 people gathered on a Tuesday night in April of 2022 to see what was
possible.
The turnout for that informational
meeting was all the encouragement needed to see this was a movement of God and
the Launch Team for the school was formed.
Nine people stepped forward to accept the invitation to start the
school. Later when the team was told what combination of people would make a
good Launch Team for a school, it was amazing to see how God placed nearly that
exact combination on the team. Muscatine Christian Academy opened it’s doors
for 37 students in the fall of 2023.
Read on to learn about our launch process…
The goals of the Launch Team from the beginning were to:
To achieve these goals, the Launch Team diligently worked in the following ways:
