The Hope Academy Declaration

The Hope Academy Declaration

One of the classical means of shaping character is the use of catechisms and creeds. Our version of a creed is called the Hope Academy Declaration — and students in grades K-5 recite it regularly. The declaration begins by distinguishing our school as different from...
God’s Leadership Profile

God’s Leadership Profile

If I were to ask you what is the biggest obstacle to the advance of the kingdom in any city or any neighborhood, most of us would be tempted to look outward. We’d say, well the decay of the culture is a huge obstacle, or the way school funding is set up is an enormous...
Radical Generosity and Sustainable Funding

Radical Generosity and Sustainable Funding

Jim Stigman is Head of Institutional Advancement at Hope Academy in Minneapolis, MN. “Each one should give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” — I Corinthians 9:7 I want to tell you about cheerful...
Christian Education and the City

Christian Education and the City

I am not only a product of Christian education myself but I have served at two urban Christian schools in Minneapolis. First as a teacher at Minnehaha Academy, and then in senior leadership at Hope Academy, a classical, Christ-centered school for disadvantaged youth,...