Annual Cornerstone Fund

Kick-Off Event for The Cornerstone Fund
October 28th - November 15th, 2024

Each year, MCA begins the annual fundraising efforts of The Cornerstone Fund with its three-week campaign, known as the Kick-Off Event. The Kick-Off Event is an intentional effort to raise as much of our total yearly goal of $500,000 Goal for the Cornerstone Fund as possible. The monies raised during the Kick-Off Event are invested right away in programs and enhancements that directly impact our students.  (To learn more about the Cornerstone Fund and how the monies raised will be invested, please click the Cornerstone Fund tab above.)

As MCA enters the 2024-25 school year, we celebrate our 32nd year of excellence in Kingdom education! For this school year we have chosen 'Choose to Be Extraordinary' as our theme. Our focus this year will be on choosing to be extraordinary in the way we love others like Jesus, live out the truth of God’s Word, pursue excellence, and bring glory to God alone in all we do.

We’ve chosen 1 Peter 2:9 to serve as our theme verse for this school year, which says, “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

Please join with us in asking God to do great things on our campus this school year. It is our prayer that Metrolina will come together as a school community to live courageously for the Lord and for our school to be a beacon of hope to all we encounter. Our world desperately needs to see people who are not discouraged or afraid, may we use that testimony to point others to Christ. Our heart is for God to never be satisfied with where we are as a school but to continue to seek all that God has for us in the future.

You can make this possible with your faithful gift to the 2024-25 Cornerstone Fund. By investing above and beyond, you are ensuring MCA can continue to teach and train with excellence and equip our young people for Kingdom living, who will impact their homes, churches, communities, and beyond as Warriors for Christ.

Throughout 2024-25, we’ll celebrate all that God has accomplished through MCA, and we’re also excited to celebrate the entire MCA community – our students, parents, staff, grandparents, alumni, alumni parents and grandparents, and so many friends – all of whom represent the greatest blessing God has given to MCA. Choose to be extraordinary through Christ!

The Cornerstone Fund is MCA’s annual giving program and its most critical fundraising effort because it supports all students and programs (Early Education through 12^th grade) by providing for enhancements and resources that are not otherwise covered by tuition. The Cornerstone Fund also serves to support the school's mission in training and equipping our young people to be champions for Christ, as well as provide a strong foundation for the continued growth of MCA's ministry. Each year, every MCA family is asked to make a financial gift to The Cornerstone Fund that is above and beyond the cost of tuition.

The funds raised through the Cornerstone Fund not only provide 'extras' to many of the school's programs sooner than would otherwise be available, but also allows MCA to keep tuition at a more affordable level for families.  Your tax-deductible gift is vital in maintaining and improving educational excellence at MCA. Gifts of any size are a blessing and greatly needed as each one makes a difference in educating our students for the cause of Christ.

Through the annual Cornerstone Fund, the generous support of our school families, grandparents, alumni and friends has allowed us to fund many wonderful enhancements and resources beyond the general budget. Here's a sampling of major enhancements made possible by the Cornerstone Fund over the last few years:

• new buses for field trips and athletic events
• improved security measures - card-access only doors and security cameras
• STEAM initiatives 
• mobile iPad labs 
• Lower School and Early Education playground equipment
• tuition assistance
• professional development for staff
• outdoor learning environment
• athletic scoreboards
• band instruments
• state of the art digital keyboard for performing arts 
• campus improvements - such as covered walkways, new flooring for classrooms and hallways, and new gym floor
• funding for building projects - new high school & middle school educational buildings/classrooms, track & field, outdoor athletic complex, Math & Science, Technology & Visual Arts, and the new Performing Arts & Student Center

To learn more about why the Cornerstone Fund is our most critical yearly fundraising effort, watch this video.

The opening phrase of John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, He gave…”  This verse reminds us that we are never more like God than when we give out of love – our time, talents, and treasures.  Your gift to the Annual Cornerstone Fund allows MCA to stay strong and grow in its mission to prepare our students to be difference makers for the cause of Christ. 

Thank you for loving MCA and advancing our mission! Together, we are METROLINA!

So that the generation to come might know Him. – Psalm 78:6