OUR VISION

To teach children how to discover God’s story for their lives.

OUR MISSION

To prepare future-ready kids who demonstrate excellence in mind, body, and spirit
to boldly engage with the world as image-bearers of Christ.

SIX CORE VALUES INFORMED BY OUR MISSION

  • We actively pursue a deeper understanding of the Gospel while we go deeper in our relationship with Jesus Christ.

    We engage with members of the school community with humility and with respect for ourselves and others.

    We maintain fidelity to guiding principles in issues such as sexual purity (as defined in scripture), sobriety, and the honoring of human life in all its stages and conditions.

    We demonstrate a curiosity about God outside the classroom as evidenced by Fruit of the Spirit in our own lives.

  • We demonstrate an active curiosity about life and the world.

    We are life-long learners and express enthusiasm for new things.

    We demonstrate grit and determination when encountering hard things.

  • We demonstrate strong relational skills and a gentle and gracious way with others.

    We communicate clearly with students, peers and parents.

    We are receptive and responsive in listening, receiving, and sharing feedback and information.

  • We demonstrate initiative in cultivating a fresh and dynamic engagement with the curriculum and in how we do things.

    We instruct, inspire, and assess students and each other using a variety of strategies and approaches.

  • We demonstrate a readiness to identify needs and contribute to solutions with a high standard of excellence.

    We have a commitment to equipping and edifying others.

    We demonstrate a quiet confidence in all areas of responsibility.

  • We demonstrate a commitment to nurturing the uniqueness of each child.

    We are dedicated to the cultivation of each child’s intellectual, spiritual, social, physical, and emotional development.

Joshua Academy is a “missional” school. While all affiliated school staff and board members are believers in Christ and seek to live our lives accordingly, we offer our school to any family and student who will receive our beliefs as having value in their own lives, regardless of their own religious or secular convictions.

Our Statement of Faith

What we believe

  1. The Bible is inspired and empowered by God. It is the infallible, and authoritative Word of God.

  2. There is one God who exists in three separate persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  3. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life on earth. He demonstrated the power and authority of God in His works, and speech, died on a cross, rose from the dead on the third day, and is now seated at the right hand of God having accomplished all that is necessary for man’s salvation. Jesus is the only way to God.

  4. Man is created in the image and likeness of God. Through the fall of man at the garden, sin came into the world. It is essential that man (mankind) repent of their sins and by faith receive the finished work of Christ by confessing Him as Lord with his mouth and believing in his heart, resulting in regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

  5. The return of Jesus Christ is imminent. Those who believe in Him will be resurrected to live for eternity with Him in a heavenly dwelling in an incorruptible body, and those who have not believed on Him will live eternally with Satan and his host in everlasting punishment.

  6. The Holy Spirit’s work has not ceased but is continuing the work started at Pentecost, empowering believers to live godly lives, and giving believers the ability to do all the works of Jesus.

  7. Water baptism by immersion is a direct commandment of our Lord and is for believers only.

  8. The Church is a family composed of believers in Christ regardless of denominational affiliation.

  9. We believe in the great commission that all born again believers have been commissioned to share the Gospel to all the world.

We recognize that there are issues where Bible scholars honestly differ (such as infant or believer baptism, Hallowe’en or All Saints Day or Reformation Sunday, grape juice or wine) and as such, Joshua Academy does not promote a certain position. We do, however, maintain fidelity regarding matters that are clear in Scripture such as the sanctity of human life, God’s design of male and female, and that marriage is between a man and a woman (see our Statement on Life, Marriage, Gender Identity and Human Sexuality).

Our entire program reflects a deep engagement with God’s Word and God’s world. Students learn, memorize, sing, illustrate, apply, act out, and honor Scripture. Our approach to scripture is a devotional approach, rather than an academic approach. We do not offer a “Bible class” or use a published Bible curriculum.