ILA Closing Statement

As COVID took over our country and schools shut down in-person classes in 2020, millions of American children were stuck at home with little to no effective educational training. Rather than sit around and wring our hands, we decided to seize the opportunity and launch an online Christian school. Our primary target was to reach children who had been attending non-Christian schools and whose parents were not prepared to homeschool. A number of our financial partners stepped up and helped us make this happen. Over the last five years, we have had the privilege of training approximately 1,000 students through iLumenEd Academy. We are grateful for every moment our teachers had to pour God’s truth into each child. 

Since our inception, RenewaNation has been primarily focused on inspiring and equipping the equippers. That is, we want to train parents, grandparents, pastors, and educators so they can then train the children in their care. As the educational landscape has returned to normal, we have become increasingly convinced that one-to-one instruction of children is outside the core mission of RenewaNation. After much prayer and consideration, we have chosen to make this school year the last one for iLumenEd Academy. The online schooling world is exploding with solid options, so we plan to take the energy we have been pouring into iLumenEd and direct it toward our core methods of giving children a biblical worldview. 

We are grateful to every donor, administrator, teacher, parent, and student who has been involved. We pray that there will be eternal fruit in the lives of the students we have trained.