Belize Adventist Junior College is a Christian
Junior college in the Calcutta Village of the
Corozal District
Corozal District is the northernmost district of the nation of Belize. The population was 33,894 in 2000. The district capital is Corozal Town.
Pre-Columbian Maya ruins are found in Corozal at Santa Rita near Corozal Town, and at Cerros.
To ...
in
Belize
Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...
. The Belize Adventist Junior College provides students with an education in a Christian setting.
It is a part of the
Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
Spiritual aspects
Students take religion classes each year that they are enrolled. The classes cover topics in
biblical history and
Christian and
denominational
A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name and tradition among other activities.
The term refers to the various Christian denominations (for example, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and the many variet ...
doctrines. Instructors in other disciplines also begin each class period with prayer or a short devotional thought, many with student input. Weekly, the entire student body gathers together for an hour-long chapel service. Outside the classrooms there is year-round spiritually oriented programming that relies on student involvement.
Athletics
The Sydney Adventist College offer the following sports:
*Soccer (boys and girls)
See also
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Seventh-day Adventist education
The Seventh-day Adventist educational system, part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is overseen by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The educational system is a Christian school-based syst ...
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
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Seventh-day Adventist theology
The theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church resembles that of Protestant Christianity, combining elements from Lutheran, Wesleyan-Arminian, and Anabaptist branches of Protestantism. Adventists believe in the infallibility of Scripture and t ...
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History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s to the 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, ...
References
Schools in Belize
Secondary schools affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Corozal
Educational institutions established in 1999
1999 establishments in Belize
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