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Hacienda of Hope Christian Academy

Hacienda of Hope Christian Academy in Tabacundo Ecuador Presentation With Jake and Tayna Wilson 

 

Jake Wilson, is the director of our Christian academy.  He has been an Assistant Principal at Sam Houston High School, a mostly hispanic school near Dallas-Fort Worth.  Tanya is an artist and a middle school art teacher.

 

Jacob and Tanya Wilson Christian Interview in Ecuador

 

 The HOH Academy was established in 2006 in association with the Hacienda of Hope orphanage in Tabacundo, Ecuador.  It is a Christian school whose mission is to provide a superior, English-based education to both the orphans and children of the surrounding community while instilling strong Christian principles.  The school provides a unique education approach that allows students to progress at a pace consistent with their background and talents.

The HOH Academy affords opportunities to touch the lives of many families as we demonstrate God’s love in the community.  Our interactions with these families allow us to help bring them into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through our examples and Bible studies. Two vibrant churches, one meeting in Cayambe and the other in Tabacundo, are benefiting from the efforts of the school, the orphanage, and Camp Bellevue.  The camp offers an after-school program providing tutoring programs and play time for children from schools in the surrounding area, including the HOH Academy.

 

The Academy was created in 2005 after a few years of operation of the Hacienda of Hope. Key reasons for the additional of the academy are:

  1. Government schools do not provide the desired quality of academic training
  2. The academy was able to also provide training on Christian values
  3. Through scholarships, the academy allows attendance by poor students in the community that could not even attend the available government schools.

The Hacienda of Hope Academy provides bilingual education from kindergarten through High School.  Since it’s operation, the academy has able to provide the highest quality of academic teaching to both our orphans and those in the Ecuadorian community.  It maintains a high reputation and is often sought out by parents in nearby communities wishing to enroll their children. Currently the academy has 180 students and the parents continue to voice extreme satisfaction with their children’s experiences at the school.

http://www.haciendaofhope.org/school/the-school-of-hope.html

The original mission of the Hacienda of Hope was to provide a home for the abandoned children of Ecuador. Having opened in 2003,  20 children are currently being served by the orphanage.  We envision serving hundreds of children who would have otherwise lived in the streets and to witness them being transformed by God’s love, then seeing them experience the sense of worth that comes from a good education. God’s call to serve the children of the region led us to the establishment of the School of Hope.  This bilingual school quickly developed a reputation in the region for excellence.

Jerry Snyder, with his wife Pat, served as the director through the building phase.  His vision and skills transformed a mostly barren piece of property into a welcoming home.  He has overseen the construction of the home and school.  The vision of all those who share a passion for the Hacienda of Hope is not only for the children already there, but for those to be served decades and even centuries to come.  Plans were approved to build homes designed for family living that would be around 100 years later.
It wouldn’t be long until facilities for the school became the most urgent concern. God’s providence was clearly leading us to serve a broader audience of children. The first students met in a converted dairy barn. They have since expanded to accommodate easily the nearly 200 students it now serves.
Today, the children’s home is being led by Justin and Jauna Reeger.  Both hold Masters degrees in social work and have extensive training dealing with children’s issues.  They are veterans of Ecuador. Jauna is the daughter of a missionary and she moved to Ecuador when she was only eight years old.  Prior to taking the assignment with the Hacienda of Hope, they served at Camp Bellevue for seven years.

 

The Hacienda of Hope is adjacent to Camp Bellevue, an outreach to children sponsored by the Bellevue Church of Christ in Bellevue, Washington.  We anticipate greater synergies in the years to come as all these projects come together to serve children in the name of Jesus Christ.

http://www.twickenham.org/HOH

 

The Hacienda of Hope is just that – a place where the hope of Christ is fostered and cultivated in the lives of His precious children.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hacienda-of-Hope-Hacienda-de-Esperanza/193191637380751?sk=info&tab=page_info

 

La Hacienda de La Esperanza es un nuevo orfanato que está brindando espacios para que niños desprotegidos tengan un ambiente apropiado para crecer y desarrollarse. Junto a esta gran obra viene funcionando la “Unidad Educativa de Esperanza” con ciento setenta alumnos, este año será la graduación de la primera promoción de alumnos de tercer año de bachillerato. Las clases se imparten tanto en idioma español como inglés con maestros ecuatorianos y americanos. Además los alumnos cuentas con espacios amplios de recreación y aulas confortables. No cabe duda que esta es una gran obra de “Las Iglesias de Cristo” patrocinada por la iglesia de Twickenham, en Huntsville, Alabama. Actualmente el director es Justin Reeger.

http://www.eqeb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=4

 

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Apologetics Program

ARS Apologetics Certificate Program with John Oakes on http://evidenceforchristianity.org/ars-apologetics-certificate-program

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Many of us have not noticed it.  The fact is that we are now living in a post-Christian age and in a post-Christian culture.  No longer can we assume that people we talk to know anything about the Bible or the Christian God.

The faith have been bombarded with negative, stereotyped ideas about religion coming from the mass media.  How can we share our faith in Jesus with a person who has no basis at all for belief that God exists?  How can we establish the inspiration of the Bible for people who do not even understand the concept of authority?  How are we going to explain Christian faith in a postmodern world which has abandoned the idea of truth?

Clearly, the solution is not simply to read a passage of scripture and let it do its work.  We need to understand the world view of the unreligious and those of other faiths.  We need to explain Christianity in ways that connect with the modern mind.  We need to repair the defensive posture of the Christian world toward the findings of modern science.

Paul modeled this behavior when he gave his apologetic argument to the Greeks in Athens.  In Acts 17 we find Paul discoursing with the Greek philosophers taking illustrations from the Stoics and the Epicureans and applying it to belief in the one true God.  We need people trained to do the same thing in our own modern versions of the Areopagus.

Curriculum for Certificate in Christian Apologetics:

1.  Intro to Christian Apologetics: The Existence of God.
a. The Need for Christian Apologetics
b. History of Chrisitan Apologetics
c. Approaches to Apologetics
d. Atheist arguments against the existence of God
e. Why Atheism fails
f. Classical theistic arguments
g. The Nature of God
Instructors: Dr. Douglas Jacoby, Dr. John Oakes

2.  Inspiration of the Bible I/Authority
a.  Inspiration, Inerrancy, Definitions and defense.
b. Supposed contradictions of fact and doctrine.
c. Consistency and unity of the Bible as a whole.
d. The Bible is the greatest book of….
e.  How We Got the Bible, Canon of OT, NT
Instructor:  Dr. John Oakes

3. Inspiration of Bible II  The Bible and Textual Criticism
a.  History of Biblical Criticism
b. Textual Criticism, Form Criticism, etc…
c. Response and defense of the unity and inspiration of the Bible.
Instructor:  Glenn Giles

4.  Science and God/Science and the Bible.
a. Age of earth/universe.
b. Creation of life.
c. Anthropic Principle/Intelligent Design
d. Biological and human evolution.
e. The flood and “flood geology.”
f. Science and the Bible.
g. Science and other religions.
Instructor:  Dr. John Oakes

5.  Prophecy and Christian Apologetics
a. Messianic Prophecies
b. Kingdom Prophecies
c. Old Testament Prophecies fulfilled in the Old Testament
d. Old Testament Prophecies fulfilled between the Testaments and in the New Testament (especially Daniel)
e. Types, foreshadows and prefigures
Instructor:  Dr. John Oakes

6. Apologetics and the Christian World View.
a. Greek world views:  Paul in Athens.
b. Eastern religions: Pantheism
c. Naturalism, Scientific Materialism
d. Postmodernism.
e. Other World Views
f. The Christian worldview.
Instructor:  Dr. Robert Kurka

7.  History, Archaeology and the Bible.
a. World History and the Old Testament.
b. Old Testament archaeology.
c. New Testament archaeology.
Instructors:  Dr. John Wilson, Dr. Douglas Jacoby, Foster Stanback, Dr. John Oakes

8.  Jesus and Christian Apologetics/Miracles
a. The deity of Jesus.
b. Liar, Lord, Lunatic, Legend.
c. Claims of Jesus.
d. The historical Jesus
e. Response to the Jesus myth hypothesis
f. Science and miracles.
g. OT miracles
h. The miracles of Jesus
i. Incarnation, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus
Instructors:  Dr. John Oakes (guest lecturer: Foster Stanback)

9.  World Religions.
a. Scope of the topic.
b. Greek and other classical religious concepts.
c. Eastern Religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikkhism, Jaina
d. New Age, Bahai
e. Islam
f. Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witness and other pseudo-Christian religions.
Instructor:  Dr. John Oakes, Dan Conder

10.  Defense of Biblical Theology: Answering the Hard Questions
a. The trinity
b. The problem of evil.
c. The problem of pain and suffering.
d. Predestination and free will
e. The problem of hell
f. The Problems of violence and slavery in the Old Testament
Instructor: Dr. John Oakes

Classes available for immediate shipment:
1. Prophecy and Christian Apologetics.
2. Science and Christian Apologetics.
3. Apologetics and the Christian World View.
Classes available as of Jan. 2011:
1. Jesus and Christian Apologetics
2. Apologetics and World Religions
3. Apologetics and Biblical Criticism

For more information or to register for any of the available classes, contact Jan Oakes at joakes01@san.rr.com or 858-505-8841.   Sign up today!