Ontario Christian School is committed to our motto: Growing Christian Leaders.

Ontario Christian recognizes that the parents are most accountable before God for the nurture of their children in the ways of the Lord. Therefore the school sees itself as an extension of the home. We see the home, church, and school must be partners in helping the students to grow in discipleship and establishing the relationships and living in obedience to God’s Word.

Mission
The mission of Ontario Christian School is to provide and promote a Biblically-based, quality education that nurtures the children of Christian parents to grow in God-centered discipleship, equipped with vision, understanding, discernment, and service in order to renew all relationships and culture to be under the authority of Jesus Christ.

Philosophy
Ontario Christian Schools is a necessary and joyful means to bring glory and honor to God in response to His mercy to His people. The school is necessary because education is essential for effective obedience to God’s will; it is joyful because as God’s children we individually and communally serve, explore, participate, and delight in His creation.

Every human has a perspective or worldview that directs and empowers the way he speaks, acts, and lives. The educational perspective of Ontario Christian School is based on the authority of the Bible as the written Word of God. In our understanding of the Bible, we find help and direction in the Reformed heritage and confessional standards. Ontario Christian recognizes that Christians adhere to a variety of confessional standards and it actively supports an interdenominational ministry by helping all Christian parents in their efforts to lead their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

One way to summarize the philosophy of Ontario Christian is to understand the relationships between the individual and God, the individual and self, the individual and other human beings, and the individual and all other aspects of God’s creation. The purpose of Ontario Christian Schools is to train the students to live in and respond to these relationships commanded in God’s Word.

In creation these relationships were established to bring honor and glory to God. People, created in the image of God, are given a special responsibility to be God’s representative to ensure that his life and all of his relationships are consistent with the ideals God has established. Men and women have special roles as steward in subduing, controlling, and preserving the earth.

All of the ideal relationships, however, were distorted when humanity willfully rejected his and her assigned places and attempted to build their own kingdom. In spite of humanity’s response, God provided through the atonement of Jesus Christ the means of restoring the relationships. As God restores His relationship with mankind, this permits the restoration of each of the other relationships. Men and women are free in thankful response to serve God as sovereign Lord, to love and respect themselves as God’s image bearers, to love their neighbors, and to subdue, control, and preserve the earth as God’s stewards.

We are called as Christians to grow in maturity in Jesus Christ, to be knowledgeable about our faith, to stand firm in our convictions, to live as servants within community, and work toward reconciling all things and relationships to Jesus Christ. The home has the primary responsibility for the children and is the children’s primary source of nurture and guidance. The school serves as an extension of the home. The Christian parent, as a member of the body of Christ, seeks for the family growth in faith and practice with regular and active involvement in a local Christian church.

Goals
Vision: The school is to help the parents train the individual child to be mature and unique within the family of God, and to accept deliberately and joyfully his or her special responsibilities. The school is to be an effective instrument of God on behalf of Christian parents to train their children to become mature Christians, desirous and capable of developing the relationships established by God.

The school must help the student, as an image bearer of God and member of a community, todiscover and develop his individual worth, talents, gifts, and responsibilities. The training of students must ensure every aspect of learning, including understanding, decision-making, and serving, is an extension from a Christian commitment and Biblical worldview.

Understanding: The school must teach content. The student must know God, self, others, and all of creation. He must learn what the proper relationships were created to be, what they became through sin, and what they can become through restoration in Jesus Christ. There must be growth in knowledge, in a clear understanding of what things are like and in identifying observations, concepts, and generalizations. There must be growth in abilities to analyze, synthesize, apply, create, and interpret.

Decision-making: The school must train and admonish the student to respond appropriately and to apply the knowledge in forming the relationships as directed in the Bible. There must be growth in right choosing, discernment, appreciation, right attitudes, and the making of appropriate judgments and commitments.

Serving: The school must train the student how to act, respond, and apply Biblical principles in establishing God-glorifying relationships. In order to promote the positive impact in the world, there must be growth in applying and implementing these Biblical principles.

Parent and Community Support
As a partnership in a ministry, Ontario Christian is dependent on the family communication with the school. The school uniquely cultivates your observations and questions to allow the school to more effectively serve.

• We solicit your prayers for the school. We suggest you regularly pray for specific groups, such as student, board, administration, teachers, support staff, other parents, volunteers, leaders and members of the auxiliary organizations, those supporting the school with their contributions, and the churches that support Christian education. 
• Volunteers. Parents are encouraged to participate in the auxiliary groups, or as volunteers. There are many opportunities to serve such as chaperoning field trips, providing special skills in the office, or helping with drama or other special event and program. To get more information on the present needs and security requirements, please contact the Development Director. 
• Development, fund raising, and the Ontario Christian Foundation. Our family’s now enjoy the results of families who have given to the school over many decades. We need to continue to have this ministry meet our present needs, but also to prepare for the future. Your contributions are needed for the school’s “annual fund drive” and the special capital projects.
  
  The Ontario Christian Foundation governs an endowment that provides for tuition assistance for families as they have need, and school capital and other special projects.
  
  Please remember the school in your estate planning. Please review our website that introduces our long-range plans and projects, and contact our Development Director on ways in which you can help.