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WHO WE ARE.

What is Covenant Classical Academy?

Covenant Classical Academy is a K-12 private classical Christian school. We are firmly and unapologetically Christo-centric in everything we do. We strive to be biblical in every aspect of our day be it educational instruction, virtue building, conflict management, and social development. We are a school that stands on the biblical assertion that every single person is created in the imago dei (image of God), created for a purpose, and called to live for Christ.

OUR PURPOSE

Our purpose is to equip and prepare people to understand the nature of reality and to live with the kind of clarity, confidence, and courage they need to live with the challenges of this fallen world. Our end goal is not to shelter kids, but to train students to think critically and logically; to live as Christians in this culture with biblical wisdom and virtue, unafraid of this world's insidious devices because of their confidence in Christ and their rigorous training.

OUR METHODOLOGY

Our parameters of accomplishing our goals begin with the Word of God and developing Christian virtue through Holy habits of the heart while seeking, beholding, and promulgating all those things that God has created to be Good, True, and Beautiful. Through daily prayer, catechism, song, scripture memorization, rigorous instruction and discipleship we hope to cultivate truth-seeking minds and beautiful hearts that strive to do great good in the world around them as future parishioners, citizens, and parents. However, to accomplish this mission we seek deep partnerships with each student's parents and church. The home and the church are essential for support. Similar to the Christian life, education is a life-long journey involving every aspect of a child's life.

OUR GOAL

We yearn to prepare the child for real world problems and situations that involve critical thinking, biblical guidance, and holy passion to be a light in the darkness. In short, our goal parallels with the Westminster Catechism as it concerns the chief end of mankind, which is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

Marriage and Family

We believe that God has defined marriage as the life-long covenant between one man and one woman and that all forms of sexual activity outside of marriage such as adultery, fornication, polygamy, homosexuality are sin. We believe that God immutably creates each person to reflect His image as male or female and that this definitive distinction is not a fluid social construct or convention of society but a declaration of God’s explicit will revealed in Scripture. 


Covenant Classical Academy is NOT:

Education with a Christian Spin and Flare

Public School Curricula with Chapel and Bible Class

Legalistic Rules like Longer Skirts and Shorter Hair

Superfluous and Compulsory Standardized Testing to No Affect

A State Brainwashing Facility for Politics and Activism

Another Behavior Correctional Facility Alternative

Gender and Sexual Identity

As with all else, we seek to say what God says. While some say these things are debatable we find them quite clear and irrefutable in scripture and reality. We only recognize male and female sexes and gender roles.  We affirm that God made Adam and Eve male and female, respectively. Also, while we consider anything to the contrary illogical and nonsensical, we understand the very real fallen nature and depravity of all mankind, as well as the confusion and pain that comes with it. For all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It is in this truth that we humbly pray for the redemption and restoration of Christ's perfect order while always operating in grace and love; treating all people with respect and dignity.

Parent Authority

CCA will partner with families to equip their children to become wise and virtuous young men and women who excel academically, think biblically, and love the truth, goodness, and beauty that corresponds to God and his world. We do not usurp parent's authority. Instead, reinforce it since it is God who has declared it. We invite and encourage maximum parent participation and involvement whether at home or at school. Not only do we want parents to go over there child's weekly liturgy and school work at home, but we want parents to be involved at school as much as possible. There are many ways parents can volunteer at our school!

Our Ecumenical and Theological Beliefs

We affirm and teach the 4 historically orthodox creeds as given to us by the Early Church Fathers and Councils during the Patristic Period. Keep in mind that when the word "Catholic" is used it is meant in the historical Latin sense and means universal.

THE APOSTLES CREED

We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and was born of a virgin, Mary. He suffered under Pontus Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hades, and on the third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into Heaven, where he sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From Heaven He shall come to earth again to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, one holy Catholic Church, the communion of all true saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the gift of everlasting life.

NICENE CREED

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.


And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.


Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.


And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father [and the Son]; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.


And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

CHALCEDONIAN CREED

We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with us according to the manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.

ATHANASIAN CREED

Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.


And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost.


The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the Holy Ghost uncreate. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal.


And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal. As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated, but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible.


So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties, but one Almighty.


So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords, but one Lord.


For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be both God and Lord, So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, There be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.


So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other; none is greater, or less than another; But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved is must think thus of the Trinity.


Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man of the substance of his Mother, born in the world; Perfect God and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.


Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood; Who, although he be God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ; One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the Manhood into God; One altogether; not by confusion of Substance, but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth at the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he will come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men will rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.


This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. 

Denominations and Traditions

Covenant Classical Academy follows a covenantal model of education following historically Reformed doctrines that came out of the Protestant Reformation. Though this is our cherished heritage we recognize and embrace our brothers and sisters of other orthodox Christian traditions/denominations and have a strong desire to cooperate with them in educating Christian students to the glory of God.

Covenant Cooperation

Covenant Classical Academy operates as an extension of the family, under the authority of parents who are required to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord (Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6). The authority granted to fathers and mothers in Scripture is passed to the school in loco parentis. This means that, for the development of paideia in students while at school, the school operates with the authority that parents have allowed us to borrow in the raising of children. Our position on authority influences our view of government and its role in correction, discipline, virtue, and education.

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