Shenandoah Valley Academy

Spiritual Experience

Statement of Beliefs
Seventh-day Adventists accept the Bible as their only creed and hold certain fundamental beliefs to be the teaching of the Holy Scriptures. 

We Believe

  • The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are fully inspired of God and are of supreme and final authority for faith and practice.
  • There is one God:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons.
  • Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do.
  • All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the character of God, His law, and His sovereignty over the universe.
  • That in Christ’s life of perfect obedience to God’s will, His suffering, death, and resurrection, God provided the only means of atonement for sin, so that those who by faith accept this atonement may have eternal life. 
  • By His death on the cross Jesus triumphed over the forces of evil.
  • The beneficent Creator, after the six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a memorial of Creation.
  • We are called to be godly people who think, feel, and act in harmony with the principles of heaven.
  • The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope, the grand climax of the gospel. 

Worship Experience

Our students often have their own daily worship experience through personal readings of Scripture, meditation, and prayer. Students also share spiritual journeys and experiences with each other throughout the week.  We worship as a school family at Vespers on Friday evenings and Sabbath School on Sabbath morning, and corporately with the New Market Seventh-day Adventist Church for the 11:00 a.m. worship service. The members of this church provide food and special worship activities several times each year for our students and regularly bring homemade “goodies” to individual students to help them feel loved and happy.