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Rebecca Morris, Alan’s wife and
an experienced teacher, answered
the call to help establish a school.
“I’m kind of the brains behind it, but
Rebecca (Hampton) is the heart,”
Mrs. Morris said. Obviously two
more “hearts,” Alan’s and Rebecca
Morris’s, had been overwhelmingly
captured by God’s love and a group
of children, because Alan’s and Mrs.
Morris’s enthusiastic descriptions
tripped upon, glided over, piled
upon and illuminated each other’s.
She is the school’s lead teacher and
Alan is on the Board of Directors.
The school has been overwhelm-
ingly successful in its three-year
lifespan. Typically, the students are
two grades below their expected
grade level when they enroll, but
within two years, their Iowa Test of
Basic Skills (ITBS) scores have risen
six grade levels. “It’s structure. It’s
biblical training -- solid ChristiaN
training. It’s dependable. We’ve
been amazed,” Alan said. “Before
they leave us, our goal is that they
will be joint enrolled at Shorter
University for at least a year.” These
children who would not have
succeeded otherwise are going to
college.
be able to stand because they know
who they are in Christ and what
they believe. I know that they know
God is who He is and Jesus is who
He is and the Holy Spirit is who He
is. They know who they are and the
power they have over Satan. They
know that they don’t have to give
Rebecca
Hampton, Found- in to his tricks because Jesus died
er of the Double on Calvary. We try to teach them
grace and not legalism. We teach
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them who they are in Christ, that
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and the Christian He made us like we are and we can
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just be ourselves as we strive to be
more like him and let him live his
life through us. We are His anyway.
Rebecca Hampton summarizes
He bought us with a price. We are
the situation as follows: “We think
his. We’re not our own.”
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it’s like a boot camp. I tell the kids
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