PORT ST. LUCIE — The CEO and entire board of Barnabas Christian Academy, formerly The Nation Christian Academy, resigned Sunday — after a week on the job.

The private nonprofit school's staff and teachers requested their resignations, according to Kimberly Baumgardner, director of Saint Lucie Christian school in Fort Pierce.

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Baumgardner agreed to run the beleaguered Port St. Lucie school as CEO and board president if Mike Woodbury resigned from those positions. He agreed and the transition took place Feb. 8.

Barnabas staff and teachers asked “to be released from (the board’s) governance” and seek to “appoint a board of directors from within the organization,” according to the minutes from Sunday's board meeting Baumgardner provided to TCPalm.

“They wanted to determine their own future,” she said. “We’re amiable and have been happy to help.”

Barnabas has no current board members, according to the Florida Secretary of State's online records.

A majority vote of Barnabas’ employees will choose the new board, according to the meeting minutes, before Feb. 26. If they don't, the Barnabas organization will be dissolved and its assets will be distributed to creditors, the minutes state.

Moving forward

Leading employees in that decision, as well as leading day-to-day operations of the school in the interim, is Ray Askew.

The meeting minutes identify Askew as the finance director and the school's website identifies him as "spiritual administrator," and the only contact other than the front office.

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Barnabas is being evicted as anchor of the Marketplace at Port St. Lucie for not paying over $40,700 in rent. In December, a new owner bought the plaza at 10330 U.S. 1, just north of Port St. Lucie Boulevard.

Baumgardner said she did what she could in the time she had managing the school, but was limited by both time and available options.

“There is not a lot you can do in four days,” she said. “The only thing we can really offer is (for Barnabas) to become part of our Fort Pierce location, and (parents and teachers) didn’t feel that was the direction they wanted to go.”