Mountain Home Christian Academy

📣 Just a reminder! We’d love for our MHCA families and community to join us on Tuesday for a special evening with Wilmer Top from Casas por Cristo!

Come hear more about the ministry, learn about the work God is doing through Casas por Cristo, and hear how our school and community can help support this mission. The evening will also include an opportunity to give toward the ministry and help support its work.

📅 August 25
⏰ 7:00 PM
📍 Mountain Home Baptist Church — across the street from MHCA

We'd love to see you there!

It's time to pay part of your tuition with EFA funds!!

Hi K-12 Friends,
Today is the day. Today or tomorrow you should log into your student's Classwallet account and approve the tuition payment request sent to you by MHCA. Classwallet should send you an email when your student's account is funded, but they have also said accounts should be funded by noon. I processed my student's payment request today and I did not find an email from Classwallet letting me know it was funded.
I'm attaching a photo of instructions if you'd like a visual step by step "How to approve Payment Requests" and I've also recorded a brief video to help walk you through the process. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1effelqPkM_RuLqM20JgwrSBymKcg9GFB/view?usp=drive_link

A few things to keep in mind:

• Approval of Quarterly payment requests need to be completed within 2 days of the school sending out the request.

• If you have multiple students in the program, you will need to repeat the approval process in each student's account (toggle between students in the upper right hand corner)

• If you were a homeschool student last year with unused EFA funds and have requested a parent portion payment request as well, you will need to approve both payment requests sent to you. If this does not apply to you, you will only see a single payment request in your Classwallet.

• The due dates of EFA and FACTS do not align, that's why it is vital you approve your payment requests asap. It can take up to 2 weeks for funds to transfer to our school account, then it takes considerable time for Mrs. Forrest to post those to each individual student's account. If you have not approved the payment request in Classwallet within 5 days of posting, your FACTS account is subject to a $75 service charge fee.

• If you need help or assistance, please reach out to Vanessa at 870-424-6622 or vpeglar@mhcaeagles.org
  

Hopefully, you've had a chance to thoroughly review the 2026-2027 Handbook. You can find the handbook in the FACTS family portal under "Resource documents." After reviewing the handbook, you will need to make sure you sign and turn into your Homeroom/Bible teacher this document that contains notable changes and the MHCA code of conduct. The deadline for the return of this signed form is this Monday, Aug. 24th. For your convenience, you can also email your signed documents to mhcaadmin@mhcaeagles.org. These documents were distributed at Open House.
You can access a downloadable copy of the "Notable Changes/Code of Conduct" form here: https://aptg.co/vFyYTc
or you can visit the school office or remind your student to pick one up from the school office to bring home.

Last call for Basketball sign-ups. Students must be signed up by Monday, Aug. 24th which is the first official practice. Basketball is for students grades 6th-12th. If your student is interested, have them find Coach Joiner for details.

Here is your opportunity to order the 26-27 MHCA "Fully His" Tshirt. After you have placed your order, you may bring exact cash/check into the school office or use the "Give" Paypal link on the school website to pay. If we have your size in stock, we will send it home with your student. If not, we will order your shirt. If you are not an MHCA family, we will contact you for pickup when your shirt is ready! https://forms.gle/reqhbBN979KZHNCN7

Also, if you ordered uniforms during the second shopping window, those are ready to be picked up at The Lockerroom in Mountain Home. Yay!

Mountain Home Christian Academy invites our school family and the community to join us for a special evening with Wilmer Top, who serves with Casas por Cristo. Come hear more about the ministry, learn about the work God is doing through Casas por Cristo, and discover how our school and community can come together to support this mission.

This evening will also serve as a fundraiser for the mission, providing an opportunity to give and help support the work of Casas por Cristo.

📅 August 25
⏰ 7:00 PM
📍 Mountain Home Baptist Church (across the street from MHCA)

A message from Wilmer: "I am Wilmer Top and I have been working in Casas por Cristo since 2022. I was born in San Raymundo Guatemala, and I was introduced to the missions when I was 18. Since then I’ve been doing worship at my church and serving the Lord. I look forward to continue my service and ministry to the teams and families we minister to."

We would love for our MHCA families and community members to join us!

Most weeks you will receive a weekly snapshot. Ideally that will arrive in your inbox before end of day each Monday (if all goes well:).

Here's some information and what's happening this school week:

• Tuesday, August 18th: Our high school students will be leaving just after morning assembly to serve the Goin family at MH Berry Farm. Mr. Goin fell off a ladder and broke his back and Mrs. Goin could use our help to get the farm ready for their Fall festivities. H.S. students should wear their new red MHCA tshirt and shorts/pants of their choice. They will need work gloves and possibly a hat to block the sun. They will be back at school around 10:30 and will complete the rest of the school day at MHCA. The students will receive service hours for their work, that will be input on their behalf into FACTS.

• Tuesday and Thursday: Our girls Volleyball team will be heading out of town for Volleyball preseason tournaments. Be in prayer for their safe travels and for great game playing attitudes! They will be dismissed early from school on both days at 2:00pm. Students are responsible to communicate with their teachers for assignments and due dates.

• Wednesday, August 19th: This will be the first chapel service of the year! Our guest speaker is a crowd favorite, Jerry Backus. MHCA families are invited to join the chapel service any and every Wednesday of their choosing. The times posted below can be used as a guide to have an idea of your student's chapel time.

• Thursday, August 20th: K-12 families!! This is the day that your EFA account should be funded in Classwallet. After I have successfully sent out all the payment requests to your Classwallet accounts, I will send you an email letting you know. You will then log in to your Classwallet account and follow the instructions that I include to approve the request. If you have more than one student in the program, you will toggle to any additional students in the upper right corner and repeat the process. Ideally, this needs to be completed same day or the next day for everything to run smoothly with the FACTS system. As you get experienced in this process, it will become very easy to do. After you've approved the payment request, it sometimes has taken up to 2 weeks before the funds make it into the school's account. When Mrs. Forrest receives the funds, she will apply it to your student's FACTS account. By the way, all funding dates have been added to our school calendar, if you'd like to add them to your calendar as a reminder.

• Former Homeschool families: If you were an EFA participant as a homeschool family last year and you have EFA funds leftover and would like to use those funds for the parent-portion of your tuition, please reach out to vpeglar@mhcaeagles.org to let her know. We have already heard from a couple of families who have requested this, but wanted to make sure all were aware this was an option.

• Dress Code for August: As a reminder, Mondays and Tuesdays will follow our regular uniform dress code. The exception this week is for high school students participating in Tuesday’s Serve Day.

  On Wednesdays and Thursdays, students may wear a MHCA T-shirt with shorts or pants of their choice, as long as they meet school dress-code guidelines.

• Thank you: We just want to give a big thank you to those that blessed our teachers/staff with snacks for Open House. Also, thanks to those that served at the EPIC (Eagles Parents In Christ) booth at Get the Scoop. To all who signed up and served in some way, your service hours have been added to your FACTS account on your behalf if you hadn't already added those.

• Ordering School T-shirts: Many have asked if they can order the new MHCA tshirt. The answer is yes! We have some in stock and we can easily place an order for additional shirts with the Cotton Co. They will be $25 for youth sizes and $30 for adult. We will send a link to an order form later in the week. You can pay with exact cash/check to the school office or through our paypal link on our school website after you've placed your order.

Have a fantastic week!

K through 12th grade families: It's time to make sure you are linked to M.H.C.A. and have set up your Classwallet account so that you can access your E.F.A. account and funding at the proper time. Your student's account is set to be funded on August 20th and that is quickly approaching. Your enrollment must be verified by the school and that cannot be completed until you are linked. If you are a returning E.F.A. family, you should already be linked to our school from last school year. If you are a new family, here are the instructions given to us by Classwallet. https://classwallet.storylane.io/share/x4plfsjbdc2x
Many of you have already linked, so thank you! If I do not see you linked to our school by late tomorrow, I will send an invite to link or reach out to your directly. (sorry for the overuse of the word "linked":))