Contest.

If you can name all these past, and present students from The Rock Christian Academy.

Simply hit the “comments” and name the students, extra points for those in the background.

Update: heres the original picture

Not every child daycare center in America are kids allowed to pray before each meal. I was at Little Creations Day Care at the church (The Rock Christian Fellowship) right before lunch and I captured a few shot of the prayer circle.

Elijah, whom I call the Prophet led the prayer.

These are Elijah’s hands in focus.

For more information on LCDC please call Consuelo at 505 747 3574

+ View all LCDC here

These are photos from our annual family trip to White Rock Overlook Park.

Enjoy.

The Homeboys -Adullam Project Mens Home

The Homegirls- Beauty for Ashes Womens Home

View em all here

Here is a special worship web-cast from my Father in-law and Pastor, Mike Naranjo.

For Booking info call (505)-753-2094
Mike Naranjo-Pastor The Rock Christian Fellowship Espanola, NM

View Pastor Mike Narnajo on Myspace here

Pictured in this photo is my sister in-law Consuelo and my older son Uriah with his guitar. This was a Christmas program. (He is around 4 yrs old). He used to drag that acoustic guitar everywhere! I am still trying to find the original picture.

Those who have not shut down their doors to the many drug addicts here in Espanola and Rio Arriba have gotten overlooked once again, while local health providers and agencies seeking national media for the drug epidemic and scarcity of treatment for addicts in Espanola. They are very well aware and closely related to those who still remain in the trenches offering a solution to the epidemic. They themselves have many times referred their clients they turn away on a regular basis to RCF a because of their own doors remain shut. The Rock Christian Fellowship, is a very progressive congregation in Espanola, NM who currently provides over 50 beds for men and women in this community while providers advocate for programs and continue to paint a very grim picture. What has been done with all the help and resources that have come in the past?

Many of the people who have been helped by this congregation and its programs were interviewed at RCF when these same local providers came to us in an attempt to publish this story. Where are their stories, the ones who have changed, and have overcome this tradition?

What YOU the reader can do about this; Email the NY Times HERE if you are dissatisfied with the integrity of this article and you live in Espanola, NM. Address your concerns in the email to Clark Hoyt. (Please copy and paste this blog url and forward it to them)

This grim article published today in the New York Times does not at all offer any hope.

Espanola, NM in Todays New York Times- Article NY TIMES ARTICLE HERE

Audio Slide Show

Here are Two Facilities that remain open with over 50 beds for men and women.

Adullam Project Mens Home

Adullam Project is Faith Based approach for men who need to overcome drug and alcohol addictions. AP is a 18 month program and solely supported by RCF and generous contributions of individuals. To schedule an interview or to receive an application call Danny Giron (505) 753-2094
Adullam Project: 1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. 2 All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
1 Samuel 22:1-3

Beauty for Ashes Womens Home

RCF’s Faith Based approach for women who need help overcoming addictions to drugs and alcohol. BFA is solely supported by RCF and generous contributions of individuals. Dolores Johnson (505) 753-2094

If you would like to support any of these ministries

please send a donation to:
919 N. Riverside DR Espanola, NM 87532

or call 505-753-2094

Mens Home Pictures here
Womens Home Here

From its beginning, Accelerated Christian Education has maintained high Biblical and academic standards and remained committed to setting children on a path for success. The goal is the same today: to prepare children for the world today and give them the academic and spiritual tools necessary to achieve their God-given potential.

Why The Rock Christian Academy Chooses Accelerated Christian Education?

The Four Keys to Accelerated Christian Education

1. Individualized: The A.C.E. Model adapts to the learning speed of your child. This is unlike the “Public School Model” where the group is lock-stepped regardless of the student’s academic abilities. The A.C.E. Model allows your child to progress independently through the curriculum and not as a group. The “Public School Model” holds back the faster learner and forces all the students forward regardless of their “learning gaps”. Over a million alumni demonstrate that Individualized learning produces academic excellence.
2. Diagnosis: The child is given a diagnostic test to determine current academic ability and clearly identifies any learning gaps within all subjects. For example, your child’s English grammar may be above his/her grade level. However their punctuation skills may be below grade level. Your child is then placed in curriculum at his/her academic performance grade level in each subject and the learning gaps are then addressed.
3. Goal Setting: The Students learn through setting daily goals and are challenged by marking their achievement. This key to learning allows the child to visualize and plan daily progress. This unique discipline of A.C.E. places responsibility and accountability on the student for learning, thus establishing a lifetime appreciation for goal setting and achievement.
4. Mastery: The Biblical value of excellence in all things we do is translated into mastering subject content. This is the foundation upon which all future learning is built. The A.C.E. Model reinforces honest achievement that results in
5. advancement. Students must master a minimum of 80% of the material before advancing.

Resources: How to start a Christian School in your community information here

great_command_commission-web.pdf

Accelerated Christian Education’s concepts are based on the following Five Basic Laws of Learning:

• A child must be at a level where he can perform.
• He must have reasonable goals.
• His learning must be controlled, and he must be motivated.
• His learning must be measurable.
• His learning must be rewarded.

Based on these principles, the A.C.E. curriculum assures parents of:

• A solid, mastery-based, back-to-basics education for their child.
• A course of study diagnostically individualized to meet a student’s specific learning needs and capabilities.
• A program incorporating Scripture, Godly character building, and wisdom principles.

• A curriculum using advanced computer technology to help ensure the finest education possible in today’s high-tech climate.

Christians of the last century thought that if public schools were established, they could become teachers in these schools and influence the community for Christ. As of late as 1892, teachers’ union stated that, “if the study of the Bible is excluded from all schools…then the good of the state would be better served if schools were returned to the churches.”

View some of  RCA photos and collections here

Sample Workshops: Include

• Why at-risk youth need a mentor.

• Being a Father to the Fatherless.

• Building Meaningful Relationships with hurting youth.

• Developing Chirstlike Youth.

Hope for Youth Alliance is in need of caring adults who would commit to spending a minimum of 8 hours per-month for up to one year with a kid from Northern New Mexcio.

Mark 3:13-19
13Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. 14He appointed twelve—designating them apostles[b]—that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach 15and to have authority to drive out demons. 16These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter 17 James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder); 18Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot 19and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

According to local health local providers Rio Arriba County is on pace to set a new record for drug overdose deaths for the second consecutive year. The state Office of the Medical Investigator has confirmed that 17 people died of drug overdoses in Rio Arriba in 2007. Seven more deaths are being investigated as possible overdoses.
Read the full Article Here

When adjusted for population size, Rio Arriba County had the highest number of drug overdose deaths in the state in 2004, 2005 and 2006, according to the state Health Department. In 2006, Rio Arriba County had 49 drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people; the County will have at least 44 per 100,000 people in 2007, and could have as many as 62 per 100,000 if toxicology results confirm drugs caused the deaths of the other seven people.
By comparison, the statewide drug overdose rate per 100,000 people in 2006 was 17.2, according to the Department.

Here are Two Facilities that remain open with over 50 beds for men and women.

Adullam Project Mens Home

Adullam Project is Faith Based approach for men who need to overcome drug and alcohol addictions. AP is a 18 month program and solely supported by RCF and generous contributions of individuals. To schedule an interview or to receive an application call Danny Giron (505) 753-2094
Adullam Project: 1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. 2 All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
1 Samuel 22:1-3

Beauty for Ashes Womens Home

RCF’s Faith Based approach for women who need help overcoming addictions to drugs and alcohol. BFA is solely supported by RCF and generous contributions of individuals. Dolores Johnson (505) 753-2094

If you would like to support any of these ministries

please send a donation to:
919 N. Riverside DR Espanola, NM 87532

or call 505-753-2094

The Rock Christian Fellowship is joining together to pray and fast for 40 days. Starting on Monday January 7, ending on Feb 16. RCF church is in need of many breakthroughs and we would be honored if you can join with us. We are committing to to the following over the next 40 days, 1)Consecration to God, 2)Seeking the purity of his bride. RCF Family is asked to fast from all meats, media, etc. During this fast you can join many who will be joining us for prayer every Friday at 6:00pm at the Rock Christian Fellowship. 24-7 Prayer watch. Please pray for financial breakthrough for RCF, for our valley, family, and friends.

-Pastor Mike–I remember as a boy having go into my grandmothers well to remove the sand build up that would clog up the fresh water and well, sometimes we would pull out trash, dead carcasses of animals. We need to clean out our wells so that fresh water can flow through the springs, our lives. The Church of Jesus Christ needs to seek God like never before. This church will continue to prevail in our city. God has called us to be an influence in Espanola and beyond. But we will have to do our part personally. Lets get to it.

Joel 2:12-14
12 “Even now,” declares the LORD,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.

14 Who knows? He may turn and have pity
and leave behind a blessing—
grain offerings and drink offerings
for the LORD your God.

Daniel 1:8-18
8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. 9 Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel, 10 but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your [c] food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.”
11 Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, 12 “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.” 14 So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.

15 At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. 16 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.

17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

18 At the end of the time set by the king to bring them in, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. 19 The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s service. 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

ADULLAM PROJECT MENS HOME
The Adullam Project is Faith Based approach for men who need to overcome drug and alcohol addictions. AP is a 18 month program and solely supported by RCF and generous contributions of individuals. To schedule an interview or to receive an application call Danny Giron (505) 753-2094

BEAUTY FOR ASHES
Beauty for Ashes is RCF’s Faith Based approach for women who need help overcoming addictions to drugs and alcohol. BFA is solely supported by RCF and generous contributions of individuals. Dolores Johnson (505) 753-2094