St. Stephen's College, Balla Balla

St. Stephen's College, Balla Balla, Southern Rhodesia (later: Rhodesia) was a private Christian high school from 1956 to 1975.

St. Stephen's College was a privately funded all boys boarding school, founded in 1956 by the Reverend Maurice Lancaster and located in the village of Balla Balla, Southern Rhodesia. "There has been for some time a growing conviction among parents that today there is a great need for their sons to receive at school not only a sound education to fit them to take their places as citizens, but also a well-based knowledge of Christianity and all it means..." so the Rev. Maurice Lancaster opened the 1953 prospectus of the proposed school at Balla Balla, stating his ideas for the school before beginning a long quest to raise funds. The school's motto Deo Scientiaque- by God and knowledge- combines both the spiritual and the material. The same prospectus also lists the aims of the college as follows: (a) to give the best possible secondary education for boys for the most reasonable terms; (b) to give a firm grounding in the Christian Faith as held and taught in the Book of Common Prayer and in the Formularies of the Church of the Province of South Africa; (c) to provide sound and wise discipline; and (d) to train for a full and useful life in the world. The school was built on of land offered by Mr. A. A. Sanderson.

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