Mission & Beliefs

Our Mission

The mission of Valley Christian Schools is to equip students to be culture changers for Christ by delivering academic excellence, facilitating spiritual growth, and building lifelong community.

Our Core Values

Honoring Christ in everything we do.

Pursuing excellence in all things, for the glory of God.

Building community and connecting past, current, and future VCS families for lifelong community.

Changing culture by developing well-rounded culture changers for Christ.

Partnering with parents and the local church to strengthen the three-legged stool of student support.

Covenant Christian School

VCS is a covenant Christian school. This means that at least one member(s) of each family that attends VCS knows Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. At the K-8, this means at least one parent; at the high school, it means at least one parent and the incoming student.

There is immense value in mission Christian schools across our globe, and we root for them to success; but VCS is distinctly Christian in practice, on our team, and in our student and parent community.

Statement of Faith

God

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus

We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

Holy Spirit

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

Salvation

We believe that for salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential.

Resurrection

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.

Spiritual Unity

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Life

We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death. We are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life (Ps. 139).

Sola Scriptura

We believe the Bible to be the only inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God (Sola Scriptura).

Sola Fide

We believe by Faith alone we are saved and not by works (Sola Fide).

Sola Gratia

We believe Grace alone is the source of our salvation through Jesus Christ (Sola Gratia).

Solus Christus

We believe through Christ alone we are saved (Solus Christus).

Soli Deo Gloria

We believe all things must be done to the Glory of God alone (Soli Deo Gloria).

Marriage

We believe the term “marriage” has only one meaning, the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Gen. 2:18-25). We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Cor. 6:18, 7:2-5, Heb. 13:4). We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.

Identity

We believe the differences between male and female, including biological differences, are divinely ordained, integral to God’s design for self-conception as male or female, and meant for human good. Therefore, the rejection of one’s biological sex and adoption of a transgender self-conception is inconsistent with God’s holy purposes in creation and a departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.

Foundational Positions

Bible Teaching Policy

Since Valley Christian is a non‐denominational school, not affiliated with any one particular church, and because we recognize that we serve families from many different backgrounds, we attempt to emphasize those matters of doctrine upon which we agree rather than emphasize those matters upon which there is disagreement among sincere Christians. The school has a general doctrinal statement that is in agreement with orthodox, conservative, evangelical Christianity. Aside from the fundamentals of the faith, which are written in our doctrinal statement, we do not dwell upon distinctives of any particular group or denomination, and we ask that students do the same.

Genesis Doctrinal Statement

It is the position of VCS that the following is true regarding the infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible, and more specifically the interpretation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis.

1. God created the entire world and all that is living. This was a divine act with every step directed by His hand.

2. The whole of the Bible is infallible, meaning all events and characters as recorded in its writing are historical, true, and real.

3. God created man unique and in His own image God created man for the purpose of glorifying Him and serving on His behalf. (This rules out any possibility that man could have had any evolutionary forbearers or evolved from another state.)

4. Adam and Eve fell into sin and the whole of humanity was made sinful by this act.

Marriage and Sexuality

We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. Rejection of one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person. We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning. It is sanctioned by God which joins one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that God has prohibited intimate sexual activity outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, and attempting to change one’s biological sex or otherwise acting upon any disagreement with one’s biological sex) or advocacy of sexual immorality, is sinful and offensive to God. If a student advocates or practices lifestyles outlined in this paragraph and does not repent of it, they likely will not be retained as a student at VCS.