Meet the Principal

Hi, I'm Dan Dunbar the principal of GGCA. At least half of my life has been spent in Greater Grace Christian Academy or one of its predecessors. For four years I was a student in the classroom; for many years I was a teacher in a classroom; now I am the principal in the office.

When I was still in high school, I felt God tugging at my heart to become a teacher here. I went to both Bible college and a state teacher college to prepare myself for the work God had for me.

But I never planned to be the principal.

God took me by surprise with this latest adventure of faith. Over the years, I had told many people that I never wanted to be the principal – ever – but when God came calling, He changed my mind in a heartbeat. In a heartbeat…I like the sound of those words. My heart beats a little faster when I think about our school and how much I love it.

This school came along at a time in my young life when I needed to grow spiritually and experience the love of God through a personal relationship with Him, and that is what I discovered in our school. Spirit-filled teachers befriended me and encouraged me to not only do my best academically, but also to follow God and find His heart.

This is my desire for our school and every student – to know God in a personal way and to experience His transforming love the way I did and still do nearly thirty years later. I love our school and I want us all to love this incredible gift of God. I want us all to take pride in our school, to get behind it and support its goal to train up young men and women to be both spiritual and successful in life; the truly successful life is the spiritual life.

"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26).

What is the advantage of filling the mind with knowledge and training the body with skills if the soul sickens because the spirit has no life-giving communion with the Spirit of God? None of any eternal value. Taking a liberty with a well-known line of poetry, I would assert that, "Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done by and through Christ will last."

Why establish a Christian school, why put your child in a Christian school, unless you believe that without Jesus Christ as the center of every part of our lives (including the education part), our lives have no eternal purpose, no eternal value? It is awesome that through the teaching of mathematics and sciences, literature and language, writing, the arts, physical education, and the Bible, we can pass on eternal values to the next generations and help them to discover their eternal purpose in a personal Savior.

I believe in Christian education. I recognize its value and importance in my own life to this day. And I am convinced that Greater Grace Christian Academy is a place where young people can "grow up into Him in all things" and embrace eternal life.

Daniel Dunbar, Principal

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Greater Grace Christian Academy is a ministry of GGWO