AN EXCELLENT EDUCATIONOur goal is to strive for excellence in all that we provide to our families: A beautiful campus, well-prepared Christ-centered faculty, staff and Board members who model Christian lives and seek personal growth, academic systems and resources that best support our students, opportunities for personal challenge and growth, consistency and integrity in efforts, thorough communication and family support, financial services that meet the needs of each family budget, meeting or exceeding accreditation expectations, building healthy collaborations with other like-minded organizations – All efforts focused on providing excellence in all we do to provide our students with an excellent education to prepare our students for life.Calvary Schools will pursue excellence to become a world-class accredited Christ-centered school:

• In all classrooms and programming (during school and extracurricular)
• By investing into the development of our staff and faculty spiritually, personally and professionally
• By implementing the best tools and methods available and appropriate for our entire school

BIBLICAL FAMILY ATMOSPHEREWhile Calvary Schools fully accepts that it is not the family, we desire to be a place that reflects family attributes as defined in God’s Word.

• Love – Using Scripture as the basis, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 provides the perfect framework for us: “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (ESV) As a school, we seek to appropriately show love to each other and to grow in our understanding of God’s definition of love at every opportunity.
• Kindness – Scripture references compassion and tender-heartedness when describing kindness to others. But 1 John 3:18 makes it clear that kindness is more than words: “Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” (ESV) Kindness at Calvary Schools means to learn about it and understand it (through careful instruction) and to genuinely practice it (with actions and words) with everyone around us.
• Honor and Respect – We show honor and respect to God and others with our obedience (Phil. 2:8), through following authority (Romans 3:2, Hebrews 13:7, 1 Peter 5:5), by loving our parents and those who are senior to us (Eph. 6:1, Lev. 19:32), by being a model of good works with integrity and dignity (Titus 2:7), and by showing genuine humility to others (Phil. 2:3, Eph. 5:21). At Calvary Schools, we seek daily to show honor and respect to others and to help our students learn how to make this a virtue to pursue throughout their lives.
• Accountability and Discipline – To help us all grow and develop, discipline is necessary. Although no discipline is pleasant at the time, the goal of discipline is to teach, direct and restore (Hebrews 12:3-13, Proverbs 3:11-12). Calvary Schools supports this statement about discipline from Focus on the Family: “Far from being a dirty word, discipline is evidence of love. When you consistently discipline a child and do it with the right attitude – compassionately, under control, with consistent boundaries and consequences, and focused on the child’s best outcome – you are expressing love exactly as God sometimes expresses His love. It may seem uncomfortable both to you and the child at the time, but in the long run, it’s the most selfless, compassionate thing you can do to set the child up for happiness in life and fruitfulness in God’s Kingdom.” (“What the Bible Says about Discipline”, C.Ingram, 2006)

MISSION STATEMENT – CSH is committed to building Christian character and to developing servant leadership in our students within the context of a quality education from preschool through 12th Grade.

CHRISTIAN CHARACTEROne of the main cornerstones of Calvary Schools is built upon Christian character. To better understand this, we look at the life of Christ to see what true Christ-like character means. Beyond the perfect life that Christ lived during his ministry on earth (Hebrews 4:14-15), we highlight the following characteristics that Christ modeled and have been described for us in Scriptures:

• God’s Word is the highest authority for understanding God’s plan and we desire to study it throughout our lives (Psalms 19:7-11).
• Christian character begins with a sincere faith in Christ (Hebrews 11:6).
• While it is the Holy Spirit who changes our hearts from rebelling against God to seeking after Him, we are called to walk in the Spirit (Gal. 5:16) and we should seek to behave in ways that produce fruit (actions and words) pleasing to God (Gal. 5:22-23, 1 Thes. 4:1, Col. 3:23-24).
• A Christian life should have virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, and affection and love toward others (2 Peter 1:5-8).
• Christian character is developed through sufferings and hardships, which produces endurance, character and hope (Romans 5:3-5, 1 Peter 1:6-7)
• Calvary Schools recognizes that the family is the primary place of spiritual leadership and the most influential model of character in a student’s life. We then recognize the local church must have a key role in building and shaping each student. With these two God-ordained institutions firmly in place, Calvary School’s goal is to provide consistent support and partnership – and without these, the daily spiritual work to seek and follow Christ taught and practiced at Calvary Schools is unable to reach its fullest potential.
• We should all seek to learn about and practice Christian character throughout each day. Who we are and what we do matters as we bear the image of Christ to this world and we should lovingly seek to hold each other accountable toward this goal.

SERVANT LEADERSHIPJesus Christ described the purpose of His ministry as “not to be served but to serve” (Mark 10:45a). Throughout Christ’s ministry He showed this in miraculous ways by healing the sick, restoring sight to those who could not see and mobility to those who could not walk. He cast out demons, raised the dead, made water into wine, rescued sinners, fed thousands and spent time with the outcast, and ultimately, He “gave his life for many” (Mark 10:45b). Christ modeled selfless service to others at the cost of His life. Learning from Christ’s ministry of service, at Calvary we will strive daily to:

• Serve Jesus Christ. “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” (Col. 3:23-24)
• Serve one another. “For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” (Gal. 5:13)
• Seek out and practice our gifts given by God. “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 4:10-11)
• Put others before ourselves. “And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” (Mark 9:35)
• Care for each other. “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal. 6:2)

SCHOOL IS LIFE

We will be a community with a team of staff, faculty and coaches committed to helping each student discover God’s plan for their life and preparing them to reflect Christ in this world.

LIFE IS SCHOOL

We will strive to plant into the hearts and minds of each student that God’s creation provides a lifetime of opportunities for learning and growing.

SCHOOL IS MINISTRY

We will provide a place where each student is ministered to and discipled so they can develop into their full potential in an environment that is safe and friendly.

LIFE IS MINISTRY

We will teach and equip each student to show their love of God to others and to learn to confidently use their gifts to impact this world throughout their entire life, and with their entire life.

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