Coming Events

Karate Grandmaster and full time Christian Missionary Visits CHA

David Sgro,  is visting Christian Home Academy on Friday October 1st 2010.  Mr. Sgro has sold everything and he and his family have moved entirely by faith to be full time missionaries in Guatemala.  Below is a little bio on Grandmaster (Tang So Do) Sgro.  While he is here he will be giving his testimony to our students and working with our Karate Ministry both at  CHA and at our other Karate Ministry at Evangel Temple Assembly of God Southwest campus.  Parents are invited to attend Friday night at Evangel Temple S.W. campus at 6:30 and all karate students are welcome to attend as well.  The address is 5040 County Rd. 218, Middleburg, FL 32068 (directly across the street from Wilkinson Jr. High.

Guatemala update:
We moved here mid June. We drove from Fayetteville, NC to Miami, FL. we bought “One Way” tickets here. Now, imagine as you are packing to move to a Guatemala and shortly before you move the country has, in 1 week, a Volcanic Eruption that blankets volcanic ash onto my new front porch, an earthquake, and a tropical storm that dumps 36 inches of rain in one hour?

Imagine you move there and 150 ft of the retaining wall around your home  has collapsed and you have to stay in a hotel for 2 days because the 6 units in front of you are flooded with over 3 feet of water in their first floor, but your unit isn’t affected?!? Imagine 3 months later (last week) there was a major drug bust where Cops and Soldiers had a 30 minute shoot out that occurred IN THE SAME LOBBY that you and your children stayed in just 3 months earlier.

Imagine that you went to visit Antigua with your family to visit the market and on the way home the road was cut off by a landslide, so you had to take an alternate route home. Later that exact same route that you took home became International News when an Avalanche swallowed a bus killing over 50 people.

That is just some of the major ways God has been protecting us and guiding us here in the last 3 months!

Bio: Grandmaster David Sgro:

Kwan Jang Nim, which means School Founder or Grandmaster, is a 7th Degree Black Belt in Tang Soo Do (Dan #22923); a 5th Degree Black Belt in Japanese Ju-Jitsu; a Certified Arnis/ Kali/Escrima Instructor; a 2 Stripe Blue Belt from Royce Gracie in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; and the Creator of FIGHT CUT (Fully Integrated Grappling & Hitting Techniques, Close Up Techniques) which is a Military Combatives System taught to thousands of soldiers including the US Special Forces (Green Berets) and the 82nd Airborne (Ft Bragg, NC). KJN Sgro was a long time student of KJN Charles Ferraro (Kwan Jang Nim and Founder of Tang Soo Do Mi Guk Kwan), who was a great influence and life mentor. KJN Sgro was also highly influenced on a technical level by KJN HC Hwang (Grandmaster of Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan; Dan #509). KJN Sgro has had many wins at National & International competitions and was Coach for Team USA (1999 London, 2001 Athens, 2002 Holland, 2003 London, 2006 Athens, 2007 USA).


KJN Sgro is currently a student of KJN Song Ki Kim, Founder of the World Dang Soo Do Union (Dan #312). "Grandmaster Kim is very humble and an accomplished teacher who is relatively unknown here in the US," says Sgro, "but as it has been said that you know a tree by its fruits." Grandmaster Kim has produced many well known amazing martial artists. His students include a long list of Who's Who in Tang Soo Do not the least of which is Chuck Norris (Dan #2819).

First Newsletter and Announcements

With this, our first newsletter of the year, we have much to talk about. First, we would like to welcome all of our new students and returning students. We appreciate the trust you have placed in us and we will strive to give your students the very best in Christian education.

• Please visit our website once a week (www.Christianhomeacademy.info) and click on either calendar or news blog to keep aware of upcoming events, deadlines and school holidays etc. If you visit once a week there will never be a reason to be uniformed about anything related to the school.

• Our extra services will be starting this week including private tutoring, art, karate, music, and all the rest. If we overlook something that your student should be receiving, please call the school so we can correct it quickly.

• We will start taking yearbook orders on September 15th and stop taking orders on October 27th. The yearbooks will cost $30.00 and must be paid at the time of the order. This year the yearbooks will be hardcover with full glossy color pages. This is a great keepsake and an excellent way to support your school and encourage school spirit.

• School pictures are scheduled for October 12th with a makeup day on October 16th. More details will be forthcoming.

• Our weekly chapel services will be starting this week. This week it will be on Thursday, however, in the future, the day of the week will be determined by the speaker’s schedule. We invite pastors and speakers from the Christian community to speak at our chapel services and we need to be mindful of their schedules.

• Our Friday lunch “order-out” program is going well. We would like it if you could send their Friday lunch money with your child on Thursday. Some of our lunch providers need 24 hour notice for orders.

• These newsletters in the future will be put on the website, so if you do not have internet access, please let the school know so we can make arrangements to get them to you.

• Thank you and God bless you and your families and as always, “To God be the Glory”.

                                                                                               Gary and Lynne Lenzi

Welcome to Christian Home Academy 2010/2011

The new school year has started, we are now in our 4th week of school, Praise God!  The summer seemed very short.  We are starting our year with 60 students and 1/3 of our students are first year students.  On behalf of all the staff and management at Christian Home Academy (CHA), we would like to welcome all of our new families and our returning families.  It is our primary desire that all that we do is pleasing to God and that He would bless our school and all the families associated with this ministry.  Our newsletter is new starting this year and we hope that everyone will make use of it to stay in tune with events and issues that effect the school and students.  Let us take this opportunity to welcome also the newest member of the CHA teaching staff, Mrs. Tammy Purvis.  Tammy will be teaching the high school students and this is the age group that she has been teaching for years and specifically requested when we hired her.  Welcome to CHA, Tammy!  I would like to point out that the calendar at the website is a good starting place for checking dates for important events like holidays and non school days.  We follow the Clay County School calendar for the most part but there are several places where we differ.  Please pay close attention to the calendar. Welcome to all and God bless CHA!