{"id":190011,"date":"2025-02-24T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190011"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T03:01:59","slug":"plans-announced-for-new-k-6-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/24\/plans-announced-for-new-k-6-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans announced for new K-6 school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans have been announced for a new school in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kingdom Connection Academy is a new Christian school and is scheduled to accept students beginning this fall. According to a press release announcing the school, parents can give their children a chance to know Jesus, love Jesus and be like Jesus throughout every subject taught at KCA. The school\u2019s goal is to see well educated students who also strive to be Jesus followers.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/KCA-Logo-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190012\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so exciting to see the prayers and commitment of the Trinity Friends Church body over the years become a reality, Head of Schools Dennis Schaffer said in the announcement. \u201cGod is moving and the Christian education that He spoke over the church years ago is within our reach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KCA\u2019s goal is to start kindergarten through sixth grade depending on enrollment numbers in each grade level. Although it is a private school, there will be financial aid options. More details will be announced in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All interested families are invited to attend any of KCA\u2019s upcoming parent information meetings and tours at 605 N. Franklin St., Van Wert, in Trinity Friends Church\u2019s Family Life Center, which will serve as the future home of KCA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parent information meetings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thursday, March 6:\u00a0 6:30-7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tuesday, March 11: 6:30-7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, March 23: 3:30-5 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday, March 15: tours will be available throughout the day during Upward basketball and cheer (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Plans have been announced for a new school in Van Wert. Kingdom Connection Academy is a new Christian school and is scheduled to accept students beginning this fall. According to a press release announcing the school, parents can give their children a chance to know Jesus, love Jesus and be like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 21:29:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190013,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190011\/revisions\/190013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}