Sahuarita Christian Academy

SCA's 1st Annual Christmas GiveAway was a big success! Thanks to all, Wal-Mart, KGVY & True Value of GV, we helped hundreds in our area.

Sahuarita Rotary Club Annual Turtle Race finale - proceeds will help benefit Sahuarita Christian Academy.

Sahuarita Rotary Club sponsors Annual Turtle Race to help local charities, such as Hands of A Friend and Sahuarita Christian Academy.

Kindergarten doing art projects.

President of the Arizona Senate, Tim Bee, speaks with the SCA student body to explain how the State Legislative & Voting processes work.

First day orientation, 2008-09 school year, new Prinicipal John Gross with SCA Executive Director David Lyon.

New portable classrooms provide ocupancy for additional 100 students.

1st Day of School SCA enrollment now in excess of 140 for the beginning of the 2008-09 School Year

2007-08 Graduates

The Pledge to The American Flag.

Graduation 2007, Stephen, Sofia & Alec, former kindergarten students celebrate moving to 1st grade.

Pattison Evanoff Engineering doing soil testing in preparation for SCA's new "Green" LEED-Silver K-12 school building.

David Lyon, with Dr. Shoemaker, Principal of Pensacola Christian Academy, and El Salvador school, during the April 2008 Principal's Clinic.

David Lyon, posing with friends from Christian schools from Kingston, Jamaica and Alabama.

Special SCA visitors, Estera & Via from Romania.

Mrs. Lyon attending a Student Tuition Organization dinner.

Children enjoying the new playground equipment.

Children enjoying new soccer nets and kick ball area.

SOWERS constructing new playground equipment.

Assembly presented by special speaker Eli Perez regarding the importance of dental hygiene.

Ian Juby, Creation Scientist, from Canada showed SCA students dinosaur and other fossils showing the evidence of the flood.

SCA student, Christopher Siow made it to the 3rd round of the Pima county Scripps National Spelling Bee.

SCA prepares for the construction of a large play ground.

Elemenatary and Kindergarten students pose with two residents of Silver Springs Nursing Home in Green Valley.

New playground equipment is being ordered to be installed during the month of March.

Dad (Principal Lyon) with daughter Sofia (Kindergartner).

Valentine Field Trip for the Elementary and Kindergarten students.

SCA continues to grow, in students, staff, volunteers and facilities.

The SOWERS completed the re-design of the SCA high school.

Send off dinner for the January SOWERS team.

New 12 x 40 storage building was built and completed by the SOWERS.

Mrs. Lupita helping a 1st grader.

Students baked Christmas cupcakes with "Grandma" Sue that they passed out to local fire and city workers.

Christmas school lunch and birthday party.

SCA conducted a hearing and sight clinic for all students attending.

Puppet show given by Pastor Townsend and his wife from the Evangelical Free Church of Green Valley.

Christmas auction for high school students.

Christmas gift exchange for elementary and kindergarten students.

Lt. Pratt from the Pima County Sherriff's Department talks to the students and staff at SCA about encouraging others.

Students and staff having fun celebrating Thanksgiving at SCA.

Over 30 students qualified to receive a personal desktop computer, in the "Great Computer Thanksgiving Give-Away Contest.

Officer Michael Blevins, Sahuarita Police Department, visits with SCA students about making the right choices.

Rural Metro conducts SCA's first fire drill and informs students about fire safety.

Sergeant Foudray, U.S. Army presents a program on the flag of the United States of America.

SCA Dedication & Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was held on October 19th.

The first SCA Family Potluck Open House was held on Saturday, October 20th.

Kindergarten doing an art activity.

SCA begins its French & Spanish classes for its Middle & High School students.

SCA participates, for the first time, in the Country Fair White Elephant parade in Green Valley.

SCA's 1st Annual Christmas GiveAway was a big success! Thanks to all, Wal-Mart, KGVY & True Value of GV, we helped hundreds in our area.

Arizona residents qualify for a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for contributions up to $1000 for married persons filing jointly and up to $500 for a single person. In simple terms; instead of paying this portion of your tax money to the State of Arizona you can donate (by simply transferring your State of AZ tax dollars) it to help pay the tuition for a student to attend SCA. All Arizona Tuition Tax Credit donations are solely utilized by SCA in providing student scholarships to families desiring to have their children educated at a private Christian school i.e. Sahuarita Christian Academy or the newly formed schools of Arizona Online Christian Academy and Nogales Christian Academy. For those who will donate now, your scholarship will be available immediately to assist students currently attending or that who would like to attend Sahuarita Christian Academy "SCA", Arizona Online Christian Academy "AOCA" or Nogales Christian Academy "NCA". Please call SCA at (520) 648-0601 or visit the web site of Children's Scholarship Network of Arizona at www.csnaz.org

CSNAZ is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit Arizona corporation that was founded as an approved "Arizona Student Tuition Organization"

During this holiday season — one shadowed by tough economic woes — the time was precisely right for giving and sharing with neighbors in need. No doubt that the idea of putting together its first Christmas Give-Away Event was overwhelming at the onset for Sahuarita Christian Academy...

Sahuarita Christian Academy with the help of its sponsor Children's Scholarship Network of Arizona is hosting its Annual Christmas Give-Away Event, to be held at the campus of Sahuarita Christian Academy,

The Sahuarita Christian Academy, a rapidly-growing private school, is asking for contributions from the community to help them continue to grow. Specifically, the academy needs Arizona Tax Credits, which are reimbursed by the state after a qualifying taxpayer's return is filed.

With the help of the Country Fair White Elephant, Sahuarita Christian Academy has been able to grow from an initial enrollment of 27 students to its current enrollment of 150 students.

Congressional candidate and State Senate President Tim Bee spoke Monday at Sahuarita Christian Academy on the workings of the Arizona government and the importance of civic participation at a young age.

Fewer than 30 students kicked off Sahuarita Christian Academy's 2007 school year, its first year in operation. Now at the start of its second year, enrollment has spiked to more than 140 students...

CEMEX, of Monterrey, Mexico, Greenblock and ICW who are both German owned, convinced Lyon that building "green" made better sense, both from a cost stand point and that building "green" provided the best environment for SCA students and faculty. Lyon stated, "This decision to build a "green" K-12 building was the right decision for us to make." "It became clear to me that it presented a win-win situation for everyone involved."

Lyon knew the school needed a larger facility after its enrollment increased from 27 last August, when the school opened, to about 170 in May, he said. Classes were previously held in a modular building with two classrooms. Sahuarita Christian Academy is hoping its new school building will attain a silver certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System.

What better way to invest in the future of our country, he thought than in our children. David Lyon's dream became a reality when he founded SCA as a non-profit, open enrollment, non discriminatory private K-12 school. Children from all walks of life from Pima County can become students at SCA. No child is ever turned away for lack of funds. The Town of Sahuarita and many "green" businesses across the country and internationally have picked up the SCA banner with Lyon, contributing materials, offering advice and encouragement for the project.

The school will cost an estimated $5 million to build, though concessions from the companies whittle the school's portion down to $1 million, says Lyon. As a private, non-profit organization without ties to a church base, they are asking for the public's help in funding the construction. Lyon is looking for sponsors willing to "purchase" one square foot of the 34,000-square-foot building for $35. The names of the sponsors will go on a wall at the front of the new building, under the verse: "...with God all things are possible."

Sahuarita Christian Academy plans major expansion. "Sahuarita Christian Academy is going green and going global," says Executive Director David Lyon. The academy, at 2285 E. Sahuarita Road, is set to begin construction next month on its 34,000-square-foot, two-story, "green" school building.

Future TBA - Family Saturday "Green" Building Day for SCA's New LEED Gold School - Date Will Be Determined By Town of Sahuarita Development Plan & Permit Approvals

SCA Joins the U.S. Green Building Council

SCA, recently became a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, "USGBC". SCA joined USGBC in anticipation of building it's new state-of-the-art green LEED K-12 school building. With the recent addition of several new corporate green building partners, SCA will now be seeking USGBC’s LEED® "GOLD" Level certification award. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a major designation that signifies that a school is not only energy efficient but as importantly environmentally healthy for it's students and faculty.

Due to SCA’s rapid growth in enrollment, SCA now finds itself in need of a large K-12 school building. To date God has made the impossible happen many times and in numerous areas for SCA, now SCA finds itself at yet another crossroad. The doors of opportunity have opened up for SCA to be able to build a “Green”, 34,000 sq. ft., two-story, K-12 school building at less than 20% of the normal construction cost. However, at a normal building cost of $150 per sq. ft. the new building would have cost SCA $5.1 million. However, to date SCA has several international, national, regional and local green manufacturer’s and contractor’s who are offering to help SCA build its new green school building. With the help of these partners SCA is estimating its portion of the building cost to be $35 (or less) per sq. ft..

In the first phase, SCA has received to date about $70,000 in donations for the new building and has been moving forward with the development plan in cooperation with the Town of Sahuarita. SCA continues to expand its manufacturer and contractor relationships, municipality coordination, architectural and engineering relationships. With the funds received to date SCA believes it can complete all of the design, development plan and permitting processes.

For the second phase, SCA is estimating that it will need approximately $325,000. The second phase consists of the construction of the excavation, the cement foundation, ICF walls, galvanized steel trusses, installation of exterior windows & doors, synthetic stucco and roof coating which will complete the shell of the two-story green school building.

SCA recently became listed in the GreenBuildingTALK Directory, a listing of green building professionals. The GreenBuildingTalk Directory is the most popular method to connect with green building professionals with over 10,000 searches conducted each month.

SCA recently became a member of the Discover Christian Schools Mid-Atlantic Organization.

David Lyon, Executive Director of SCA attended the CONSTRUCT 2008, International Construction Conference, that was held in Las Vegas on June 4th, 5th & 6th 2008. CONSTRUCT attendees were architects, engineers, contractors and specifiers from all over the world who came together to see and learn about the latest products and technological developments currently available in the commercial construction industry.

SCA Is A High Tech Campus

Due to today's challenging school campus environment as well as the rapidly changing and increasingly complex fire/life safety codes SCA is contracted with Protection One on a 24/7 around-the-clock basis for electronic fire, smoke, sprinkler, medical and security system monitoring. This insures SCA that its facilities and campus are safe and in compliance with local, state, and national requirements.

SCA also has invested in redundant digital video recorder systems with CD rewritable drives that provide for both hard drive (redundant) archiving and recording as well as remote internet monitoring via the web 24/7.

For more than 30 years, Labels for Education™ has been awarding free educational equipment to schools in exchange for proofs of purchase from the Campbell family of brands. It’s a fun, easy program where students, families and members of the community work together for a common goal.

Today, over 80,000 schools and organizations are registered with Labels for Education™, benefiting more than 42 million students. Over the years, we've been able to provide more than $100 million in merchandise to America's schools!

SCA School Uniform

Sahuarita Christian Academy utilizes a school uniform. Specific information regarding styles, brand and store will be provided to parents as soon as these decisions have been finalized.

View Examples of the SCA Uniform Dress Code Options

SCA History

Sahuarita Christian Academy "SCA" was formed in 2005 and began educating students from the Green Valley, Sahuarita and south Tucson areas as of July 2005 utilizing a local church facility. Then, during the summer of 2006, SCA was able to acquire 3 acres at 2285 E Sahuarita Road (3 1/2 miles East of I-19 on Sahuarita Road) for its very own K-12 school campus. SCA has seen enrollment grow at its new campus location from an initial student body of 27 (1st semester 2007-08) to 54 (2nd semester 2007-08) to 140 (1st semester 2008-09).

Plans are underway for further campus development, i.e. college/university in bible, business, education, nursing, vocational LEED construction, vocational agriculture, cafeteria, gymnasium, sports playing fields, campus housing, RV park, etc. Sahuarita Christian Academy is a nondenominational open enrollment private urban Christian school 501(c)3 non-profit Arizona Corporation. SCA is a unique private K-12 urban school in that it does not discriminate student families who do not have the financial ability to come to SCA. SCA has been blessed itself as SCA helps children attend a private school whose families do not have the ability to pay.

Please direct your questions regarding student registration, tuition, scholarships, and the private AZ tax credit donations to Debra at 520-648-0601 or by e-mail to dphelan@sahuarita-sca.org. Other donations and/or AZ corporate income tax credit donations should be directed to David Lyon, Executive Director at 520-481-6905 or by e-mail to dlyon@sahuarita-sca.org.

More Info on Student Registration or Enroll Online

SCA Purpose

The purpose of Sahuarita Christian Academy is a God-given ministry to lead young people to Christ and train them in the Bible, Christian character, language, and traditional subject matter. Today's students need to be taught the accumulated wisdom of the past from Gods point of view and trained in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6) so they will have a firm foundation from which to evaluate the present and make proper decisions for the future. At Sahuarita Christian Academy, academic and spiritual standards are high with added emphasis on patriotism and character training.

"We thank God, that we live in a country that allows us to have a private Christian school. A place where we can display God's 10 Commandments on the walls of our school, start each school day with a pledge to the Holy Bible, the Christian flag and the American flag. Where prayer is a common part of our daily school day, with opening prayer before school and closing prayer after school. A school that has the Holy Bible as its core basis for all learning and where Science is taught according to the Bible as God's creationism rather than from the ideas of evolutionism." David Lyon, Executive Director

SCA Curriculum

Sahuarita Christian Academy is proud to be an affiliated "Distance Education School" that utilizes the All DVD Program for Schools from A Beka Academy. A Beka Academy is a subsidiary of Pensacola Christian College. Pensacola Christian Academy and Pensacola Christian College together have an annual student enrollment in excess of 7,000 students. A Beka Book, whose reputation is highly regarded in academic circles, is utilized in over 10,000 Christian schools located both in and outside the U.S. Over 600 of these Christian schools utilize the A Beka Academy DVD Program for Schools whose master teachers, with over 6,400 teaching hours, teach your child from kindergarten through high school. Since 1985 over 462,000 student enrollments have benefited from this high quality Christian curriculum.

(See photo top right, taken at Principals Clinic March, 2006 in Pensacola, FL; David Lyon, Executive Director of Sahuarita Christian Academy with Dr. Arlin Horton, founder of Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola Christian Academy, A Beka Book and A Beka Academy.)

Additionally, at SCA we have incorporated The Truth Project® (a DVD-based biblical world-view curriculum comprised of 12 one-hour lessons) in order to equip our middle and high school students with discernment regarding God's truth claims.

It is our desire that everyone completing The Truth Project® will have a better understanding of the truth. Do you really believe that what you really believe is really true?

(See photo bottom right, taken at the campus of Focus on The Family, June, 2006 in Colorado Springs, CO; David Lyon, Executive Director of Sahuarita Christian Academy with Dr. Del Tackett who is the DVD teacher of The Truth Project.)

The SCA Utilized Curriculum Has an Internationally Recognized Accreditation Available!

A Beka Academy offers it's Christian school affiliates, who completely utilize their All DVD Program for Schools, a fully accredited program. As a high quality distance education provider, A Beka Academy is accredited by the Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (FACCS), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI) (which also includes the North Central Association (NCA)) and the Commission on International Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA) which together provide the benefits of local, national and international reciprocal accreditation.

Please Consider Becoming An SCA "Building Block Partner" Today?

We would like to personally invite you to become a "Building Block Partner". Your prayers and financial support are needed. Because of people like you SCA has been able to provide scholarships to lower income families who never dreamed that it was possible for them to send their child (children) to a private Christian K-12 school.

To send us a financial gift, of any size, you can mail your check, made payable to Sahuarita Christian Academy, P.O. Box 1704, Sahuarita, AZ 85629.

For additional questions or for more information about Sahuarita Christian Academy please contact us by e-mail to dlyon@sahuarita-sca.org or by telephone at (520) 648-0601.

SCA also has a "Building Blocks Partners" newsletter and eNewsletter that can be sent to you. Just simply e-mail or call in your information to SCA to start receiving these informational updates.

SCA Joins the U.S. Green Building Council

SCA Is A High Tech Campus

SCA Purpose

SCA Curriculum

Please Consider Becoming An SCA "Building Block Partner" Today?

Contact Information

Sahuarita Christian Academy is a "private Christian urban school" and as such does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, family status, national origin, religion and/or finances in administration of its education or admission policies.

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SCA Joins the U.S. Green Building Council

SCA Is A High Tech Campus

SCA Purpose

SCA Curriculum

Please Consider Becoming An SCA "Building Block Partner" Today?

Contact Information

Sahuarita Christian Academy is a "private Christian urban school" and as such does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, family status, national origin, religion and/or finances in administration of its education or admission policies.

Send e-mail to webmaster@sahuarita-sca.org with questions or comments about this web site. Copyright © 2005-2008 by Sahuarita Christian Academy, Inc. Last modified: 01/01/09

Send e-mail to webmaster@sahuarita-sca.org with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2005-2008 by Sahuarita Christian Academy, Inc.
Last modified: 01/01/09