NCFCA
National Christian speech & debate · Self-Governance · Wisdom & Letters
Your students already research, write, and deliver speeches at a college standard. CHI brings the accredited class, so a season of NCFCA competition earns real college credit. Every club is a Civic Hall waiting to happen.
A CHI Hall needs three things to begin: local tutors, a gathered local community, and work that serves a sector of public life. Every NCFCA club already has all three. The coaches and parent-judges are tutors. The families who gather each week are the community. And the work itself — forming young people who can speak the truth with clarity and grace — is civic formation in its most direct form.
An NCFCA club, in other words, is a Civic Hall that has not yet been named one. It lacks only the academic partnership that turns its work into accredited credit. That is exactly what CHI supplies.
CHI brings Fundamentals of Speech Communication(COMM 1443), the accredited oral-communication course from Southeastern University, a CHI academic partner. It is the same three-credit course every SEU undergraduate takes: the history and theory of rhetoric, and the practice of researching, organizing, and delivering informative and persuasive speeches. The NCFCA season is the lab. The work a student is already doing — Persuasive, Informative, Apologetics, Extemporaneous — becomes the raw material they adapt to the course’s official assessment prompts.
Nothing about NCFCA changes. The league runs as it always has. CHI and Southeastern carry the academic load: the syllabus, the rubric, the credit. A local coach, credentialed as a CHI tutor, helps the student match their work to an official prompt across a season they were going to compete in anyway.
The syllabus is the standard, not the season. A student earns credit by selecting an official prompt and meeting its learning outcomes, scope, research, and citation requirements — not by submitting a competition piece unchanged. See the full pathway, dates, and tuition →
Register by August 26
Students complete their Christian Halls setup and an SEU dual enrollment application. Applications stay open through the August 26 start date.
Prepare through the fall
Students work their NCFCA season as always, using the companion guide to match current or planned work to the course’s official assessment prompts.
Adapt the work to the prompt
A CHI-credentialed coach helps the student revise a speech, case, or research file until it meets the selected prompt’s outcomes, scope, research, and citation standards.
Submit in Fall B
From October 21 to December 15, the student submits the graded assessments through Southeastern University and earns three college credits for $300 — and the club takes its first step toward becoming a Hall.
The Fall 2026 section is confirmed and guaranteed to run. Preparation runs the length of the semester so students enter the eight-week graded term with drafts already in hand.
For parents
The program you already trust now produces something you can hold: accredited college credit, on a real transcript, at a fraction of normal tuition. The years your student gives to speech and debate are no longer only character and skill. They are the first line of a college record, earned at home, in your own community, under coaches you know — and a head start that lowers the cost and the risk of the years that follow.
For students
You are already putting in the hours. Now the same season counts twice: the trophy and the transcript. The case you spent all fall sharpening becomes the foundation of your first college grade. You walk into your next stage of school already a step ahead, with credit in hand and proof you can do college-level work — because you already did it, on a stage, in front of judges.
One accredited class is the first step, not the destination. A club that offers college credit, gathers a community, and forms young people for public life is already doing what a Civic Hall does. Over time, with CHI’s academic partnerships and shared formation architecture behind it, an NCFCA club can grow into a named Civic Hall — keeping its coaches, its families, and its identity, and gaining an academic spine and a path for students to accumulate credit close to home.
Fundamentals of Speech is the obvious first class because the lab already exists in every event. But the same logic runs through the rest of NCFCA. Each competitive discipline maps onto a college course a student is, in effect, already taking:
Add American History, Political Science, and Economics as accredited tracks, and a student could assemble a meaningful block of transferable credit — even a path toward an associate degree — entirely through the NCFCA work they love, inside a Civic Hall rooted in their own town. That is the long arc: a national league of clubs becoming a national network of Halls that form the country’s next generation of public voices.
Bring it to your club
You coach or lead an NCFCA club and you want your students to earn credit for the work they already do. We will walk you through credentialing a coach and enrolling students in the confirmed Fall 2026 section.
Start the conversationEnroll your student
You are an NCFCA family and you want the season to count toward college. The Fall 2026 section of COMM 1443 is confirmed, and applications remain open through August 26.
See the pathwayPartner with CHI
You serve in NCFCA leadership and you want to offer accredited credit across the league. CHI carries the academic partnership and the platform; NCFCA keeps doing what it does best. Let us show you the model.
Talk with CHI