We believe that man is created in the image of God. Therefore, God's sovereignty is supreme over every aspect of our life. Man is finite and is dependent upon divine revelation for all ultimate truth. This belief establishes the foundation of the Christian World/Life View.

As the Christian school concerns itself with mastering the fundamentals of human knowledge, it must rely upon this Christian World/Life View in the pursuit of educational excellence. Since God reveals Himself in the Bible and in His creation, the Christian school gives the Bible and its teachings a prominent place in curriculum. This emphasis can play an important role in transmitting to the next generation of Americans the spiritual nature of their heritage.

A school is an effective place for learning only if it can provide a God-fearing environment accompanied by consistent discipline and orderliness. Only a Christian school can provide such an atmosphere. Only a Christian school can integrate God's revelations and human learning. It is, therefore, our purpose to provide sound academic training integrated with a distinctly Christian view of God and the world. There are important differences between the Christian view on any given subject and the many non-Christian views on that same subject. Even though knowledge is factually the same for all, no subject can be taught totally or accurately if the Creator is ignored or denied. Knowledge is properly understood only by the recognition of God's preeminence in it. No formal education can be entirely adequate unless God is honored throughout.

The Christian school musters all of man's faculties for a study of God's revelations so that intellectual, social, emotional and physical development is given unity, direction and balance.

The hub of human relations in the Christian school is personal concern for each other in the spirit of law and love. This premise should be evident in the general atmosphere of the school, and in the personal relationships among teachers, pupils, staff and parents.

It is our purpose to personally see that the education we provide is both excellent and thoroughly Christian. We diligently seek to instill the time-honored values of faith in God, love of family, patriotism, respect for authority, and hard work. Our responsibility is to nurture, instruct and train students in order to help parents fulfill their God-given mandate to "train up a child in the way he should go" (Proverbs 22:6) and to "bring them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4).

1. To instruct and discipline children in God's law and reverential fear, to use this means to affectually draw children unto Himself that they may confess Him and live His glory.
    
2. To give instruction and discipline so God's children may learn to walk in God's law and to shine with Christian virtues.
    
3. To develop their God given minds that they may be able to rightly discern and judge all things for themselves.
    
4. To require the disciplined exercise of God given talents. To assist in determining God's call in their vocation and to prepare them to use these talents to the utmost excellence, and to honor and glorify God.
    
5. To give this instruction and discipline, not only to meet human needs with excellence but also preeminently to labor to the greater glory of God, honoring the name of Christ, that there might be faith, true knowledge and personal holiness in generations to come.

1. We believe in the Bible as the only authoritative word of God.
    
2. We believe there is only one God. It is eternally reliable in all matters of Christian faith and practice.
    
3. We believe in the deity of Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, His personal return in power and glory.
    
4. We affirm that salvation is by grace, through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. We affirm that repentance from personal sin toward God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are necessary to salvation.
    
5. We affirm the resurrection of both, the saved and the lost, those who are saved to the resurrection of life and those who are lost to eternal punishment.
    
6. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
    
7. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

MATTHEW 18 PRINCIPLE:

In our relationships at HCA we recognize differences or disagreements may arise from time to time. As a school we strive to follow the Scriptural principle outlined by our Lord Jesus in Matthew 18:

"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of tow or three witnesses.' If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector."

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