the feast
Our mission to help sow wisdom and harvest delight in every home is rooted in the greatest commandment:
“Love the Lord with all of their heart, soul, and mind” (Matthew 22:37). To help achieve this mission, RCA uses the imagery of three types of feasting to encourage families:
The Kitchen Table: Loving the Lord with all your heart.
The Academic Table: Loving the Lord with all your mind.
The Perfect Table: Love the Lord with all your soul.
We encourage families to love the Lord with all of their hearts by helping them protect the Kitchen Table in their homes. The kitchen table for most families is a place of celebrating, feasting, and formation (i.e. regular discipleship). However, for the home educator, the kitchen table has an even higher calling. It is a place where students gather to learn how to love Jesus more than themselves. This special meeting place is where the hearts of children are won by offering a vision of an unhurried place of fellowship, christian hospitality, and a proper ordering of our affections.
We support the Kitchen Table by helping to protect it. We do this by not putting undue burdens on parents by way of homework, projects or extra readings. When our families are home, we want their focus there, not on RCA.
The Academic Table is where families learn to love the Lord with all of their mind. RCA families are encouraged to dedicate themselves to a life of learning together. Our approach fosters the renewing of the mind by delighting in God’s World through a wide variety of rich resources including but not limited to: well-chosen books, music, art, and nature study.
We support the Academic Table by helping to provide for it. We do this by offering programming two days per week filled with delight-based learning.
Finally, we encourage families to love the Lord with all of their soul by anticipating the Perfect Table to come: the Supper of the Lamb. This perfect table is a place where we will receive an eternal union with Christ and His bride, the church. Until that Day, we encourage families to participate as active members of their local church as we strengthen students to honor their Christian heritage.
We support the Perfect Table by helping prioritizing and prizing it. In addition to encouraging our families to be active members of their local church, RCA’s programming aims to model a love of worship and prayer through the recitation of Scripture and the memorization of hymns.
Our mission is supporting the christian home by sowing wisdom and harvest delight by bringing God’s feast and family together. With this great hope RCA partners with like-minded families to see the transformation of God’s people who are wise in His ways and who delight in His world.