LET THERE BE LIGHT KINGDOM COMMISSION
Restoring lives. Raising leaders. Revealing Christ.
Let There Be Light Christian Residential Academy is being established as a Christ-centered day, boarding, and residential-restoration academy in Jamaica, designed to restore vulnerable children and prepare Kingdom leaders for Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the world.
A Flagship instituition being developed in phases
Restoring lives.
Raising leaders.
Revealing Christ.
A Christ-centered day, boarding, and residential-restoration academy being established in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. Every child deserves someone who believes in them, at the exact moment it matters.
A FLAGSHIP INSTITUTION BEING DEVELOPED IN PHASES
OUR FOUNDATION
Jesus Christ is Lord of this Academy, and of everything we do within it.
Not a value we hold. The authority we answer to. Every policy, every programme, every hire, and every decision is measured against one question: does this reflect the heart of Christ for these children?
Why St. Elizabeth
Because God said St. Elizabeth.
There was no market study, no site ranking, no strategic rationale offered to us first. There was an instruction, and there was obedience to it.
Everything that has followed, the incorporation, the governance, the curriculum, the search for ground, has been the work of catching up to what He already said.
Their destinies should not be impacted negatively because of the hurricane.
Their identity is found in Christ.
LATOYA SHEA, FOUNDER
How Restoration Happens Here
Love is the vehicle. The Holy Spirit is the one who transforms.
Nothing at LTBL is delivered without love, because nothing without love has ever restored a child. Programmes do not heal. Buildings do not heal. Love, carried by people who stay, is the vehicle the Spirit uses.
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The Fruit of the Spirit is not decoration on our curriculum. It is the framework every child's restoration is built on, named, taught, modelled, and grown week by week.
Love
01
Joy
02
Peace
03
Peace
04
Kindness
05
Goodness
06
Faithfulness
07
Gentleness
08
Self-Control
09
From the Founder
This began as obedience, not a business plan.
A conviction that God was calling His people to restore vulnerable children through love, education, discipleship, and compassionate care. What started as a vision is now incorporated, governed, and moving toward January 2027.
Latoya Shea
FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
ONE ACADEMY, THREE PATHWAYS
No child is labeled. No child is separated.
Children arrive by three different doors and sit in the same classroom, eat at the same table, and wear the same crest.
01
ALWAYS FREE
Residential Restoration
For vulnerable children, including those living and working on the street. Housing, meals, healthcare, clothing, education, and trauma-informed counselling, completely free, always.
02
TUITION
Traditional Boarding
A boarding pathway for Jamaican, Caribbean, diaspora, international, and ministry families who want structure beyond the school day.
03
TUITION
Day Students
Children of the surrounding communities in St. Elizabeth, whose presence keeps the academy rooted in the parish rather than set apart from it.
The Founding Campaign
A Future for Every Child
Ground first, then a campus. Seven million US dollars puts a permanent home under these children in St. Elizabeth. Every gift moves the ground closer, and every gift is doing work today.
$350
USD
Puts a device into one student's hands for a full school year.
$1,268
USD
Carries one student through a full term: tutoring, a mentor, meals, and safeguarding.
$100,000
USD
Funds an entire cohort of 100 students for a term, fully resourced.
No building at LTBL will ever carry a name other than God's.
RUNNING NOW
The CSEC Intensive Programme
Sept to June
THE FULL SCHOOL YEAR
1:4
TUTORING GROUP SIZE
5
DAYS A WEEK
$0
COST TO FAMILIES
Building LTBL in responsible phases
PHASE 01 · CURRENT
Formation & Readiness
Governance, safeguarding, curriculum, finance, and land.
PHASE 02 · JANUARY 2027
Founding Academy
Our founding cohort begins, across all three pathways.
PHASE 03
Growth Academy
Expansion toward approximately 300 students.
PHASE 04
Full Flagship
A mature Pre-K to 12 model of approximately 600 in St. Elizabeth.
Every figure is a planning target, subject to land, financing, licensing, and regulatory approval
Let There Be Light
Christian Residential Academy
Built for His glory. For His children. For generations.
501(c)(3) application filed. Until determination, gifts are received through our fiscal sponsor, Fiscal Sponsorship Allies, and are tax deductible. Giving is processed in USD; Jamaican fees and local payments are quoted in JMD.
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