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A Winning Team
It is nice to be on a winning team. As I type, I’m looking forward to our ECA volleyball match this Friday when I’ll have both of my daughters playing. And, we’ll be cheering for another win to add to their record. When I retired from the Navy in 2013, I entered a...
What’s Your Story?
I love stories. I especially love stories with complexity and texture, the kind that can only come from a good book. For it is the rich detail of a story that makes it more nuanced, more fascinating, more real. And as a parent and educator, I love how stories...
Seize Each Moment for Biblical Integration – Especially at Christmas
Helen and I are celebrating Christmas this year in a new and unusual way. Our children are grown and married, and we are enjoying special times with our three grandchildren when we are not quarantining. That is right, COVID-19 has thrown another wrinkle in our...
Ancient Scripture Still Informs Generations in the Strangest of Times: Even Today!
Dr. Jim Johnson, ECA Superintendent This Eagle’s View article is being written at a very rare time in American history; I write this on the morning two days after the 2020 U. S. presidential election day. At this moment, the presidency is still undecided, as six...
A Call for Stories About Former ECA Students!
Dr. Jim Johnson, ECA Superintendent Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 ECA’s 50th Anniversary Year Evangelical Christian Academy was established in 1971 by Evangelical Presbyterian Church,...
2020 Valedictory Address
Victoria Blackman, Class of 2020 Fellow students, parents, teachers, and administrators: thank you for celebrating the graduation of the class of 2020 with us. This has been a remarkable and crazy time with a pandemic that turned everyone’s world upside down....
Planning for the Future
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then...
What’s Next?
Thankful for the Endurance of Teachers, Parents, and Students! What’s Next? SCRIPTURE NEVER PROMISES AN ABSENCE OF TRIALS: “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let...
Being an Eagle
I am an ECA eagle, through and through. Evangelical Christian Academy has been a part of virtually every period of my life; I attended ECA, from preschool through the middle of my junior year, when we moved to California due to a job change for my dad. However, even...
Homeschooling
I’m telling you right now: The education occurring at my house this quarter is not homeschooling. It’s also not classroom teaching. It’s not even a hybrid. This is an entirely new phenomenon (What isn’t these days?) that I’ve decided to call… home-ECAing! This...