Rafiki Classical Academy

Rafiki Classical Academy Cultivating students who love God, pursue wisdom, model virtue, and serve

At RCA, a wise saying resounds: hustle to help out. These young men did just that yesterday when they jumped at the oppo...
08/19/2026

At RCA, a wise saying resounds: hustle to help out. These young men did just that yesterday when they jumped at the opportunity to carry packages to their classrooms. May they always be joyfully quick to serve.

A new school year is underway at Rafiki Classical Academy!The year opened on Thursday with a beautiful Convocation. In t...
08/15/2026

A new school year is underway at Rafiki Classical Academy!

The year opened on Thursday with a beautiful Convocation. In the facility that prints and ships Rafiki’s Bible Studies and school curriculum, the RCA community gathered to pray, worship, be encouraged, and welcome new students.

RCA was honored to have a dear friend of Rafiki, Dr. Robert Littlejohn, attend as the guest speaker. Kelly Fore spoke on the rich education our students will receive this year. Karen Elliott reminded the audience that we are part of something bigger than ourselves—an Academy that exists to minister, model, and mobilize. Lastly, continuing a cherished tradition begun by Rosemary Jensen, Karen gifted Bibles to the new students, welcoming them into a fellowship of budding scholars with the most important book they will ever study and the book in which they perceive everything else they study.

After the students headed to class, families and other guests were invited to stay for a Q&A with Dr. Littlejohn about education and the important work of cultivating students through a classical Christian education.

Please pray for the students, families, and faculty of Rafiki Classical Academy as they begin a new school year. They are off to a great start!

Today is Meet the Teacher at RCA — how wonderful it is to see our students! Karen Elliott, RCA’s Board President, enjoye...
08/12/2026

Today is Meet the Teacher at RCA — how wonderful it is to see our students! Karen Elliott, RCA’s Board President, enjoyed a moment with a student outside the Academy’s newest classroom space. The Lord is good and kind to continue growing our school and providing for all our needs.

Rafiki Classical Academy ~ Cultivating students who love God, pursue wisdom, model virtue, and serve.

What is the process of true learning? Observing, understanding, evaluating, feeling, and then applying and communicating...
08/06/2026

What is the process of true learning? Observing, understanding, evaluating, feeling, and then applying and communicating. For the past two days, RCA’s faculty pondered each of these acts and did so under the tutelage of Rev. Bob Ingram. It was a rich time of contemplation and equipping!

Bob Ingram is well known and beloved by the faculty of RCA. He has prayed for and nurtured the Academy since its inception. Bob is a founding board member and former headmaster of The Geneva School and now mentors multiple classical Christian schools across the nation.

Rafiki Classical Academy ~ Cultivating students who love God, pursue wisdom, model virtue, and serve.

RCA’s teachers are back! Their days are full of preparing for our students and faculty training. Yesterday, Dr. Joshua H...
08/05/2026

RCA’s teachers are back! Their days are full of preparing for our students and faculty training. Yesterday, Dr. Joshua Herring Zoomed into a session and unpacked his rich definition of classical Christian education:

“Classical Christian Education is a Christian paideia which fulfills the biblical expectation that parents will raise their children in the fear and admonition of the LORD; it filters the classical tradition of Greece and Rome through the lens of Christian theology with the goal of forming souls to love the LORD their God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.”

Rafiki Classical Academy ~ Cultivating students who love God, pursue wisdom, model virtue, and serve.

RCA’s Kindergarten Teacher, Mrs. Severn, traveled to the Rafiki Village Kenya with her whole family this summer. Enjoy t...
07/31/2026

RCA’s Kindergarten Teacher, Mrs. Severn, traveled to the Rafiki Village Kenya with her whole family this summer. Enjoy this letter they wrote after the trip…

Dear Friends and Family,

Our two weeks in Nairobi Kenya have come to an end. This trip has truly given our family a life changing experience and allowed us to see God’s Word at work. God has worked through each of us in different ways as we served in the Rafiki Village.

Here are some of the ways we served:

• I (Jesse) worked alongside the staff of PMG (Plant, Maintenance & Grounds). These gentlemen can do or figure out most anything they are tasked with and are experts at reusing materials not needed in one place in order to utilize them in another. We took a very large room and built a new wall to separate a laundry room and create food storage room. This included relocating a commercial washing machine, a sink, electric, plumbing, framing, gypsum board, busting down a different wall to make an access door, and building and hanging shelves and countertops. Multiple other projects were planned out and worked on while we were there, but the biggest task daily was mowing and weed-eating the 29 acres of the property (with a push mower).

• Frances worked alongside the kindergarten teachers at the Rafiki classical Christian school. Since they use the same Rafiki curriculum she teaches here in the U.S., she was able to teach and share ideas. She also gave a teacher training course to the faculty on “Avoiding Mission Drift in Classical Christian Education by Maintaining Rigor”.

• All three children went to school in the Rafiki Village. At the Rafiki schools in Africa, English is taught primarily and this helped our children to assimilate. Since they also use the same Rafiki curriculum, our children were able to join their classrooms with ease. Our children made friends quickly and enjoyed their teachers who loved them well. The children ate each day in the school cafeteria, rotating Kenyan foods such as beans, lentils, soya, and most importantly ugali, a Kenyan staple.

• As a family we were able to build relationships with the orphans who are living in the Rafiki Village. We shared in Bible study nightly—opening with hymns, reading God’s word, and then having deep discussions and sharing. We also played games with the orphans, and they loved loving on our children through soccer, running, basketball and the playground in the village. Every night we ate dinner with the orphans and lunch as well on weekends.

Summer is winding down for RCA’s faculty, and we are recounting God’s goodness to us over these past couple of months. S...
07/30/2026

Summer is winding down for RCA’s faculty, and we are recounting God’s goodness to us over these past couple of months. Several faculty members traveled to Africa to serve with the Rafiki Foundation. Mrs. Kinkopf, RCA’s first-grade teacher, served at Rafiki Village Liberia with her husband for the second summer in a row. She shared these words about her trip:

“It was a delight to return to the Rafiki Village Liberia this summer. The Village has many areas of outreach in the surrounding community including a Rafiki classical Christian school with approximately 350 day students and residents, a cooperative program for widows to create items to sell at the Rafiki Exchange in Florida, local church partnerships, a teacher's college and more. I was invited to work alongside teachers in preparation for the start of a new school year by setting up classrooms, planning lessons, and speaking during teacher in-service. Mr. Kinkopf worked together with the maintenance crew completing a cottage-to-classroom renovation and general grounds maintenance. He even had time to delight the entire Rafiki Village with a piano performance.”

The Kinkopfs are plotting their third trip to Rafiki Village Liberia! Want to join them? Visit here for short-term missions opportunities in Africa with Rafiki: https://rafikifoundation.org/go

Summertime can bring joyous reunions. Ms. Bronke, RCA’s humanities teacher, experienced just that at the Rafiki Village ...
07/30/2026

Summertime can bring joyous reunions. Ms. Bronke, RCA’s humanities teacher, experienced just that at the Rafiki Village Ghana in July. Here’s how…

“I am thankful to the Lord that I got to return to the Rafiki Village in Ghana this summer after serving there as a long-term missionary. Worshipping with the Rafiki teachers and lending a helping hand in the Rafiki classical Christian school in Ghana is always a joy for me. It was especially sweet to observe a former student of mine, who was an orphan and now is a Rafiki teacher, lovingly present the gospel to her twenty kindergarten students. Soli Deo Gloria!”

Stay tuned for more testimonies from RCA faculty members who traveled to Africa this summer with the Rafiki Foundation!

Squeals of delight rang out from the Rosemary Jensen Flower Garden yesterday as first graders filled this special space ...
05/02/2026

Squeals of delight rang out from the Rosemary Jensen Flower Garden yesterday as first graders filled this special space and released painted lady butterflies. Over the past 18 days, the students watched the metamorphic process unfold in their classroom—from caterpillars to chrysalises to beautiful butterflies. As they left the garden, they shouted to an Upper Grammar teacher, “We got to go into the Rosemary Jensen Garden!”

We are not sure what was more exciting—entering the garden of our beloved founder for the first time or releasing the butterflies. We thank the Lord for His creation, for the righteous heritage and inheritance of the Church, and for beautiful school grounds within which we enjoy and learn of it all.

Friday’s Field Day left everyone in a happy, sweaty, dusty state, so it only made sense to tend the gardens in the after...
04/28/2026

Friday’s Field Day left everyone in a happy, sweaty, dusty state, so it only made sense to tend the gardens in the afternoon. Pre-Kindergarten and Second Grade students were tickled to harvest potatoes and carrots.

As the academic year comes to a close, we are praying RCA’s teachers and parents reflect and see what the Lord has cultivated and grown in our students this year. There is a harvest of wisdom and virtue in our students’ lives that by God’s grace will last into eternity. We give the Lord all the praise and glory.

“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.” - 1 Corinthians 3:6

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