Conference Supported Education

Adventist education is in a national state of decline and has been so since the 1980's. This has resulted in significate financial stress on most of our schools leaving many classrooms in need of books and equipment. The CCC is no different.

The Central Conference has exceeded the target evangelistic dallors at Camp Meeting by 4.5 million dollars over the last 5 years. It would be wonderful if the Conference could take a small portion of those excess dollars and provide some badly needed services to our children.

(1) The Conference owns a tractor-trailer rig to move Pastors and their belongings. The truck sits there day after day. This truck could be used for a mobile science lab that would benefit the schools greatly. Science equipment is typically expensive but is only used for a short time during the year for specific experiments.
Centralization of the science equipment would reduce the total cost to each school and at the same time provide superior equipment to all schools.

(2) Each campus could use help from an additional Bible Worker or Chaplin similar to other Adventist campuses in the East.

(3) Individual school campuses do not have sufficient technological help to take advantage of distance learning. Although not as good as direct teacher to student contact, distance learning is a powerful tool and is becoming better every day. There is an Adventist school in the Mid West that closed its main campus in favor of opening three smaller campuses that were about 30 miles apart. The three campuses are tied together with the internet. And each teacher (via the internet) teaches at all three campuses. The beauty is that you still have an on-site teacher using an off-site expert in a particular subject area. Everything is done in "real" time, so the children can ask questions. Centralized technology would be very beneficial.