A Quality Christian Education                            
Grace Christian School of Mankato
     Mission Statement and Philosophy of Education:

     MISSION STATEMENT
Grace Christian School exists as a ministry of Grace Baptist Church to assist parents in fulfilling their God-given responsibility to train their children in the precepts of Scripture.
 
     PHILOSOPHY
Education is, by its very nature, a religious process; it is impossible to teach facts without interpretation in a religious and philosophical framework.
Christian education must deal with the spiritual, academic, social and physical dimensions of the student.

Man is recognized as a spiritual being which will live for eternity either enjoying the presence of God or suffering His holy judgment.  We believe that the Scriptures give the true view of God and man, and are the basis for training man to live for eternity.

Truth in the academic realm may be known through the study of the Scriptures, which is recognized as God's revelation to the human race, setting forth truths which man might not otherwise discover.  Truth may also be known by a proper rational process based upon presuppositions which are consistent with the revelation of Scripture.  The natural world, which has been created by God, may also be studied to learn academic truth.  However, since man's rational process and observational powers have been marred by the fall into sin, truth arrived at through these means must be checked against the revelation of Scripture for validity.

Man was created  a social being (Genesis 2:18).  The Scriptures contain the principles given by God for man's interaction with his fellow man.  Therefore, the basis for education in social interaction must be those principles.

Every person created by God has a body, which He desires to possess as His temple (I Corinthians 3:16, 6:19).  Thus, the proper care and "maintenance" of the temple is essential to a program of Christian education.

God has given to parents the responsibility and the right to educate their own children:
    "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
    thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."  Deuteronomy 6:6,7

    "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”  Ephesians 6:4

Since parents are given the primary responsibility as the educators in the moral and spiritual realm, Grace Christian School seeks only to reinforce the teaching of godly parents in these areas.  It is not possible to reinforce values that have never been taught.  Therefore, parents who do not agree with the moral values and spiritual teaching of Grace Christian School or who are not consciously trying to teach them at home are asked NOT to enroll their children at Grace Christian School.