Mission 

The mission of Maranatha Christian Academy is to equip students to follow Jesus through exceptional education in a Christ-centered community.  

Vision

Maranatha will be a beacon of light within Christian education, providing premier spiritual, academic, athletic, and artistic opportunities to inspire individuals to fulfill their God-given purpose. 

• Maranatha Christian Academy has been partnering with parents since 1974.

• MCA is a fully accredited K-12 college-preparatory school committed to academic excellence and rooted in a Biblical worldview.

• MCA is a non-denominational Christian school located in western Johnson County, KS.
• Anticipated Enrollment for the 2025-2026 the school year:  680 students 
• MCA is fully accredited through ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International) and Cognia. 
• MCA is a member of the Kansas State High School Activities Association & the KAW Valley Conference.
• MCA partners with MidAmerica Nazarene University to offer students dual-enrollment class options. 

What We Believe

• We believe that God is the ultimate & final authority who has chosen to reveal Himself and His Truth though the Holy Scriptures.
• We believe that the Bible is the only inspired, inerrant, authoritative Word of God.
• We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
• We believe that God created all human beings in His image as immutable, engendered men & women.
• We believe that life begins at conception & that all lives are equally valuable, including the pre-born.
• We believe that salvation comes from grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Read our FULL STATEMENT OF FAITH HERE

MCA Statement of Faith

Maranatha Academy is a ministry of Eastern Kansas Christian Schools and is interdenominational in its attitude and emphasis. The school stands and operates firmly on the changeless Word of God as expressed in the following statement of historic evangelical Christianity:

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God[1].

• We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit[2].

• We believe in the deity of Christ; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His miracles; His vicarious and atoning death; His resurrection; His ascension to the right hand of the Father and His personal return in power and glory[3].

• We believe that God is the Creator of all things, including mankind.  Men and women were created by God[4].

• We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, that men are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ; and that only by God’s grace and through faith alone we are saved[5].

• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; that they are saved unto the resurrection of life; and that they are lost unto the resurrection of damnation[6].

• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ[7].

• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life[8].

• We believe that God wonderfully foreordained and immutably created each person as either wholly male or wholly female in conformity with their biological sex.  The sex of a person at birth is their sex as God does not make mistakes.  These two distinct yet complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God[9].

•  We believe that the term marriage has only one meaning: the God-created sacrament or union of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, covenant commitment, as delineated in Scripture, distinguished by sexual exclusivity, permanence and devotion to their good and to the welfare of any children within the family[10].

• We believe that God intends for sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that God’s command is that there be no sexual intimacy outside of or apart from the man-woman marriage relationship[11].

• We believe in the sanctity of all human life, including the pre-born from conception, and consider each person to be of infinite value and each life a gift from God to be cherished, nurtured and redeemed[12].

• We believe that when disputes, disagreements, or other offenses arise among members of the body of Christ, it is a matter of grave concern for the whole body. Conflicts that occur in the body should be resolved promptly. We believe God calls us to proceed with one another with “the same attitude that was in Christ Jesus,” and to follow Biblical principles for conflict resolution[13].

[1] II Tim. 3:15, II Peter 1:21

[2] Gen. 1:1, Matt. 28:19, John 10:30

[3] John 10:33, Is. 7:14, Matt. 1:23, Luke 1:35, Heb. 4:15, 7:26, John 2:11, I Cor. 15:3, Eph. 1:7, Heb. 2:9, John 11:25, I Cor. 15:4, Mark 16:19, Acts 1:11, Rev. 19:11,

[4] Genesis 1 & 2, John 1: 1-5

[5] John 3:16-19, 5:24, Rom. 3:23, 5:8-9; Eph. 2:8-10; Titus 3:5

[6] John 5:28-29

[7] Rom. 8:9, I Cor. 12:12-13, Gal. 3:26-28

[8] Rom. 8:13-14; I Cor. 3:16, 6:19-20; Eph. 4:30, 5:18

[9] Genesis 1:26-27

[10] Numbers 30:2, Genesis 2:18-25, and James 5:12

[11] 1 Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4

[12] Genesis 1:27; Genesis 9:6; Psalm 139:13-16; Luke 1:44

[13] Matthew 5:23-24; Philippians 2:5 Ephesians 4:26-27 (Matthew 18).

The vision of Maranatha Christian Academy is to help all students develop toward full maturity in Christ, by teaching, equipping and enabling them:

• To be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29) Development of Character
• To know they are filled with the spiritual understanding & increasing in the knowledge of God & Truth (Colossians 1:9-10, John 8:32) Development of Wisdom
• To do the good, acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12:2) by being fruitful in every good work (Colossians 1:10) and living a lifestyle of service with not growing weary in well doing (Galatians 6:9) Development of Service