Our Purpose: Who We Are and What We Are Seeking to Build 

 

Purpose 

To gather like-minded families who want to pursue God together in the context of raising our children in a Daniel life-style of: 1. prayer, 2. a fasted lifestyle, and 3. excellence in learning, 4. and with marvelous comrades. Our goal is to develop students who are well-educated and trained in all manner of schooling and equally educated in spiritual understanding, fully equipped for the times we live in. 

 

Family Partnership Private School 

We are a Family Partnership Private School (FPPS) – where excellent teachers are hired to teach academic subjects at school, which are then overseen and completed with parental oversight at home. Together as families we are pursuing the “Daniel Lifestyle” in prayer, fasting, with marvelous comrades, and excellence in education. 

The Daniel Academy has a very specific focus and will not meet every family’s need. Parents are expected to be fully engaged in overseeing their student’s education and cooperating with Daniel Academy teachers to complete homework during times when we are not in class. We are seeking families who are fully committed to bringing forth this “dual education” of natural and spiritual studies.

 

Becoming A Daniel 

The Daniel Academy is a unique school designed to develop present day Daniels who will understand the times and influence society. We seek to develop students who are well educated and trained in both academics and spiritual understanding, cultivating pure hearts, endowed with discernment, and having the ability to serve in the courts of the present day kings (Daniel 1:4). 

We desire for our students to be trained in “governmental intercession” (Daniel 9), learning to hear God’s voice and transforming cities and nations through prayer and strategic placement by Him.

 

Students Who We Are Seeking 

We are a school for students who have already made a strong commitment to the Lord and to following Him in every aspect of their lives. We are all walking in varying levels of faithfulness and follow-through, but the heart desire to say ‘yes’ to Him must be firmly established. We are not a school for students still on their journey to know if God is real or for troubled kids who have not made it in other school settings.

 

Natural Wisdom 

We train our students in natural wisdom, seeking to understand the God of Creation, learning His ways and studying His works in all aspects of life (science, mathematics, literature, writing, critical thinking, understanding of world views, leadership training, etc.) (Proverbs 3:19) 

 

Spiritual Wisdom 

We train our students in spiritual wisdom, cultivated in a lifestyle of prayer, a fasted lifestyle, and waiting on God. We want to understand all kinds of visions and dreams as Daniel did, seeking God for the answers from heaven (Daniel 1:17, 5:12). 

Part of the spiritual training is done partnering with IHOP-KC (International House of Prayer) which is a missions base devoted to 24/7 prayer, adoration, worship, and petition until Jesus returns. While we are not legally affiliated with IHOP-KC, we are in agreement with them in vision and values (www.ihop.org).

 

7 Mountains of Influence 

Our goal is to see our students fully equipped to go into the “7 Mountains of Influence”: family, education, government/ law, economy (business, sciences and technology), arts/ entertainment/ sports, media, religion. Some students may be planted full time in a house of prayer changing the world through governmental intercession, while others will be equipped to bring influence as Daniel did actually planted in a certain sphere of life.