James McCaney, director of Victory Christian Academy and Day Care beams as Avery reads the letters. Police Chief Rick Singleton will never find boys like Avery wearing a caps over their faces and pulling off a job at a quick-stop store. And Avery will not be buffing a table in a restaurant when he's 29. McCaney said that children who get a good education such as Avery is getting could reach any goals they set.
Nobody can take away what they learn.
Two families, one black, the other white, showed up to meet with my wife and me and our two boys and we were off to a great start. In fact, the start turned out to be so great that by the beginning of 1998, the fire marshal was threatening to close the school on Bluff Street because it was overcrowded. However, a miracle was in the making. A larger building had been prepared for the school. The Rev. Richard Riley, following the leading of the Lord, had built an attractive two-story building on Hough Road for his church, which became known as Beaconhill.