Between 1980 and 2005 Seventh-day Adventist Church membership in the North American Division increased by 75 percent. In that same 25-year period K-12 enrollment in Adventist schools dropped by nearly 25 percent. What happened?
And why?
How to Kill Adventist Education takes a hard look at the troubles plaguing Adventist schools. Not only are those problems identified, along with their root causes, but a simple yet effective strategy for change is proposed. And by using this proven strategy, failing schools have successfully transformed into thriving centers of Christ-oriented education.
So yes, there is hope for Adventist education.
Now, let's get down to business!
The Secondary Causes of the Current Crisis
- How We Didn’t Quite Get Into This Mess
The Root Causes of the Current Crisis
- It’s Hard to Be Excited About What You Don’t Value
- The Importance of Barking Up the Right Tree
- The Pastor and the Incredible Shrinking School
- Poor Parenting
- The Success of the “-isms”: Postmodernism, Secularism, and “Liberalism”
- Poor Quality Schools
Recipe for Destruction
- How to Kill Adventist Education
Some Possible Solutions to the Crisis
- How to Give Adventist Education a Fighting Chance
- Step 1: Ask and Answer the Right Questions
- Step 2: Become a School of Prayer
- Step 3: Find the Right Local Leader
- Step 4: Discover the True State of Your School
- Step 5: Master the Fundamentals of Adventist Education
- Step 6: Relentlessly Eliminate Weaknesses or Make Them Irrelevant
- Step 7: Get the Good Word Out/Enlist Widespread Support
- Step 8: Embed the Positive Changes in the Culture of Your School
- The “Always Step”
- The Role of Conference/Union/Division Administration in the Revitalization Process
- Let Us Become Normal
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