Our June newsletter is brimming with hopeful and encouraging news for Concordia Academy - Wichita, including an important capital campaign update. If you would like to read the newsletter, please click here. If you would like the monthly newsletter delivered to your inbox, please subscribe using the button on the right-hand sidebar.  Blessings on your summer!

Yesterday, Concordia's Board of Directors held its annual meeting, including the election of board members and officers. We welcomed new board member Everett Snyder, and Amanda Carter was re-elected to another term on the board. Thank you both! We are grateful to Rev. Dean Christ for his willingness to fill the office of President in the coming year, and to Dick Lewallen, Amanda Carter, and Kristi Lovett for their willingness to continue serving in their offices for another year.

We also want to thank outgoing board members Rev. Geoff Boyle and Ken Wabel for their time and efforts. Pastor Boyle has been involved with Concordia Academy since the beginning of the idea in 2016. Since then he has led the effort, including helming the original steering committee and serving as the board's president since its incorporation in 2018. It would be an understatement to say he has put a lot of passion, knowledge, time, and effort into making Concordia Academy a reality. Without him, we could not have accomplished anything that we have done. We will miss him and his family greatly when he takes up his new position at the seminary in Ft. Wayne.

We will be hosting an open house on Saturday, April 23rd from 2:00-4:00 pm (come & go) at our new location, Immanuel Lutheran Church (909 S Market St).

Come tour our facilities, get more information about the school & about scholarships, meet our headmaster, talk to members of the board, and ask questions!

Enrollment for 9th grade is officially open! Thank you to all those who came to our open house on February 12th. We enjoyed meeting you! 

Our application is available online here. We have scholarships available from half to full tuition for the 2022-2023 school year! For more information, contact us through the "contact" page or give us a call.

We are so excited to announce that we have a Headmaster: Mr. Dan Snyder! Mr. Snyder is a man of many talents and abilities and is passionate about classical Lutheran education. With a background of copious education and life experiences, as you see in his bio below, Concordia Academy will be in very good and capable hands. As we prepare to open our 9th grade this fall, and begin our enrollment of new students, we invite you to join us at our Open House on Saturday, February 12 from 10am-12pm. There you will be able to meet Mr. Snyder, tour the facilities, and ask any questions you may have. Again, please join us in thanking God and welcoming Mr. Snyder to Concordia Academy!

Dan Snyder is a teacher, a former Marine, video game designer, international classical singer, and professional church musician. His work has been featured and reviewed in Wired magazine, PCgamer, on the Discovery Channel as well as in Opera News and the Kurt Weill Newsletter and many other publications. Transitioning from the USMC as an air traffic controller and computer programmer to the U.S. Army Chorus, he performed regularly at the White House. Mr Snyder’s educational background includes time as a training designer with the American Red Cross as well as the US Marine Corps Training and Education Command in Quantico, Va, and later as a contractor with various defense agencies. He has studied at Bryan College, George Mason University, Mannes Conservatory of Music, and did graduate work at The New School in New York City, where he also holds a certificate in screen writing from the film school. Mr Snyder taught logic, great books, and rhetoric at the Classical School of Wichita beginning in 2013, having relocated to Wichita from New York City. His educational pursuits, which include a focus in several languages, continue with the completion of graduate studies in classical Christian education at New Saint Andrews College. He and his wife Tracee, a professional musician, are members of Immanuel Lutheran Church.

Happy New Year! We hope and pray that 2022 will be a momentous year for Concordia Academy, as we continue working towards opening our doors to ninth graders this fall and providing the next generation of high schoolers with a quality education oriented towards wisdom and virtue in Christ.

​Towards that end, we are planning an informal come-and-go open house on Saturday, February 12th, from 10am to 12pm on our campus. While this event will kick off our official enrollment period, it is open to all families with any level of interest in the school, even if you’re not sure your child will attend Concordia, or if your child isn’t yet old enough to attend this fall. Members of the board of directors will be available to talk with you, answer questions, and share information, and you will be able to see our facilities at Grace Lutheran church.

​We also have some exciting news to share for those considering enrolling their child in ninth grade at Concordia Academy this fall. Thanks to the financial support we’ve received so far, we’re able to make a number of generous scholarships worth half to full tuition ($3,000 to $6,000) available for the 2022-2023 school year! It is our hope that these scholarships will enable more families to choose a Lutheran high school education for their child, as we know that the financial aspect of school choice can be a struggle for many.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We hope to see many of you on February 12th!

​What happens when we send our children off to school? For almost eight hours a day, five days a week, and thirteen years of their life, are they being given an example of faithfully hearing the Word, receiving the Sacrament, and calling upon God with prayer, praise, and thanksgiving? Or is it a different pattern and a different formation? 

It is clear that reformation is needed in the way American children are educated—and at the heart of it, the goal(s) they are being educated towards. Will you join us in being part of this reformation? Please consider a donation to Concordia Academy on Giving Tuesday, November 30th. We are a 501(c)(3) organization and a Recognized Service Organization (RSO) of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.