The Seventh-day Adventist Church desires through all its educational programs to help prepare the youth for effective citizenship on this earth and for rewarding citizenship in the new earth.

The educational program of the Church gives primary emphasis to character building and to the spiritual foundations in the lives of its children and youth. Moreover, it makes abundant provision for the acquisition and interpretation of that which is appropriate from the store of common secular knowledge and skills for mental, social, vocational, and physical development.

It is for this sole purpose that Grand Bahama Academy has existed for the past 42 years. Please visit us at grandbahamaacademy.org.

Educating our children for this world and the world to come

Though primary education for children was advocated by Adventists during the 1850s and 1860s, it was not until the early 1870s that the newly budding Adventist Church began to recognize and develop a denominationally-based school system.

The Adventist interests in propagating education was founded upon the philosophy that students at all levels of schooling possess individuality and should be educated to use their God-given capacities to become individuals of principle, qualified for any position of life. Education was to begin in the home where the basic values of redemptive discipline and mental and physical health were to be balanced with the importance of work.

Since these early days Adventists have embraced the philosophy that education should be redemptive in nature, for the purpose of restoring human beings to the image of God, our Creator. Mental, physical, social, and spiritual health, intellectual growth, and service to humanity form a core of values that are essential aspects of the Adventist education philosophy.

To ensure that the church gives appropriate and professional approach to the church’s education interests, an Education Department was established on all levels of the church’s administrative system, with responsibility to ensure that the Adventist philosophy of education and the principles of faith-and-learning are integrated into the life of each of its students in its schools, colleges and universities around the world.