Welcome to Parkway Christian School

Parkway’s vision and mission can be summarized with our motto: Challenging Minds, Capturing Hearts, and Cultivating Gifts. We consider this the framework that gives Parkway a unique identity. By filtering everything through this framework, we are best able to accomplish our goal of educating the whole student in preparation for future endeavors utilizing a biblical worldview. Our vision is to develop a Christian school that challenges students to reach their highest potential academically, presents the gospel in a way that promotes a biblical worldview, and identifies and develops individual gifts and talents.

Core Values

Core Value #1 - Christian Family
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 ESV
● PCS promotes the biblical concept that God gives the responsibility for the education of children to the parents. 
● PCS provides support, specifically, to the Christ-centered home. 
● PCS promotes the concept that children’s education is founded on the same Biblical principles and values by which their homes should operate. 
● PCS adheres to the biblical definition of marriage as being between one biological man and one biological woman and consisting of a single, exclusive union. 
● PCS promotes the biblical mandates regarding sexuality, with sexual immorality defined as any sexual activity that does not occur within the marriage union as defined above.
● PCS promotes the biblical understanding of gender, identified as male and female. These two, distinct, complementary genders reflect the image and nature of God. Any rejection of one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that individual.

Core Value # 2 – Quality Bible-based Education
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. II Timothy 3:16-17 ESV
● PCS acknowledges and teaches that the Bible is the foundation for all knowledge and the source of all truth. 
● PCS promotes the concept that knowledge without the intelligence of God’s Word can never become wisdom. 
● PCS develops a curriculum that integrates strong academics with a Biblical Worldview, which is shaped by what the Bible has to say about God, creation, mankind, moral order, purpose and Scripture. 
● PCS trains teachers to understand, apply and connect the Biblical Worldview to their academic knowledge and instruction. 
● PCS prepares students for their future education and employment by offering opportunities for spiritual, intellectual, social, physical, emotional, and artistic training within a biblical frame of reference.

Core Value # 3 – The Local Church
From him (Christ) the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Ephesians 4:16 ESV
● PCS, through the education and service of our students, helps strengthen the local church and community. 
● PCS works together with church leaders to implement biblical principles to prepare the next generation to capture the world for Christ. 
● PCS develops programs for students that teach the importance of and encourage involvement in their local church. 
● PCS requires students and families to attend and be involved with a local Christian church.

10 Biblical Principles of Education

God’s word provides Christians with key principles so that they know how God expects them to raise or educate their children.

The education of children and youth: 

• Is the primary responsibility of parents.
• Is a 24 hour-a-day, 7 days-per-week process that continues from birth till maturity.
• Must have as its primary goals the salvation of and discipleship of the next generation.
• Must be based on God’s Word as absolute truth.
• Must hold Christ as preeminent in all of life.
• Must not hinder the spiritual and moral development of the next generation.
• If and when delegated by parents, must be done with utmost care to ensure that all teachers follow these principles.
• Results in the formation of a belief system or worldview that will be patterned after the belief systems or worldviews of the person’s teachers.
• Must lead to true wisdom and understanding by connecting all knowledge to a biblical worldview framework.
• Must have a view of the future that includes the eternal perspective.

Using these 10 principles as a foundation, Parkway strives to provide an education that places Christ at the center of everything. Students are encouraged to examine the world through a biblical lens, rather than studying subject matter outside of a biblical worldview. In this way, God’s Truth is integrated into every aspect of education, creating a product that showcases God and His creation rather than man and his knowledge.

Biblical Principles for Achieving Kingdom Education from Kingdom Education, 2nd Edition God's Plan for Educating Future Generations by Dr. Glen L. Schulz Ed.D

Kingdom Education is “the life-long, Bible-based, Christ-centered process of leading a child into a new identity with Christ and developing him/her according to the specific abilities given to him/her by Christ so that the child will be empowered to live a life characterized by love, trust, and obedience to Christ.”

— Dr. Glen L. Schulz, Ed.D.

Statement of Faith

At Parkway, we believe Jesus is the Son of God and that He paid for our sins with His death and rose from the dead, overcoming the grave and offering us eternal life. We believe that we must accept Christ with faith and repentance to receive the eternal life He offers. We believe Jesus Christ is alive and active in our world through the power of the Holy Spirit. Christ can and does heal sick bodies, minds, and emotions. We believe Jesus will physically and visibly return to Earth and will resurrect those who have died in Christ. We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. We believe in the infilling of the Holy Spirit and in utilizing the gifts He has given individuals and the Church.

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative, inerrant Word of God. (II Tim. 3:15; II Pet. 1:21)
• We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Gen. 1:1; Matt. 28:19; Jn. 10:30)
• We believe in the Scriptural imperatives of repentance, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, burial with Christ in baptism, and the sealing of the Holy Spirit. (I John 1:9; Acts 2:38, 16:31; Rom. 6:3-4)
• We believe in the deity of Christ (Jn. 10:33), His virgin birth (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:23; Lk. 1:35), His sinless life (Heb. 4:15, 7:26), His miracles (Jn. 2:11), His vicarious and atoning death (I Cor. 15:3; Eph. 1:7; Heb. 2:9), His resurrection (Jn. 11:25; I Cor. 15:4), His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mk. 16:19), and His personal return in power and glory. (Acts 1:11; Rev. 19:11)
• We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, that men are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ, and that only by God's grace and through faith alone are we saved. (Jn. 3:16-19, 5:24; Rom. 3:23, 5:8-9; Eph. 2:9-10; Titus 3:5)
• We believe Jesus Christ is alive and active in our world through the power of the Holy Spirit and that He can and does heal sick bodies, minds and emotions. The gifts He has given to the Church are held in high esteem.(Jn. 15:26; Mk. 6:1-18; Ps. 103:2-5; Matt. 4:23; I Cor. 12:9,28; Eph. 4:11-12)
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost -- they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. (Jn. 5:28-29)
  We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom. 8:9; I Cor. 12:12-13; Gal. 3:26-28)
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. (Rom. 8:13-14; I Cor. 3:16, 6:19-20; Eph. 4:30, 5:18)

“The genuine care and compassion for the students, expressed by the teachers and staff, is beyond measure. Knowing that they are not just fulfilling a job in educating my children, but that they are praying for them and greatly surpassing normal responsibilities, is something that this world needs more of.” 

- Parkway Christian School Parent