At Grace, our goal is to not only develop minds and intellect, but also nurture hearts and souls. With a Christian worldview integrated into all academic and extracurricular programming, students will discover many opportunities for spiritual growth and fellowship.
Elementary, middle and high schools chapels are held weekly, led by an area pastor, GCS or Grace Chapel staff, or GCS students. Chapel services are designed to engage students in high-energy praise and worship, prayer, and a message from God’s Word. Chapel gives students a quiet time each week to reflect on and respond to God’s calling on their lives.
Bible is taught as a core subject in grades K-12. In addition to developing Biblical-literacy and a strong theological foundation, students are provided with curriculum and instruction that help them to understand and develop a Christian worldview in order to impact the world for Christ. Students reflect, journal, and pray collectively and individually in response to the daily engagement with the living and active Word of God (Hebrews 4:12).
In addition to Bible being a core subject at GCS, there are morning Bible study groups that meet throughout the school year. There are student-led and teacher-led Bible study groups that provide the Upper School community with opportunities to learn more about God’s word and how to apply it to their lives.
While most government-led schools have prohibited students and staff from praying, our students learn how to talk to God and grow in a consistency of connection with Him on a daily basis.
Our GCS faculty participate in professional development programming focused on Biblical worldview integration and cultivating mentoring relationships to increase their effectiveness of making disciples of Jesus in the classroom as well as through advisory groups that meet on a weekly basis.
The weekly Upper School Chapel experience includes a student-led worship team that provides GCS students with an opportunity to use their unique gifts and talents for the glory of God. Students can audition in order to be a part of this team and participate in weekly rehearsals that help them continue to develop their gifts and talents. Students can be a part of this team as a vocalist, instrumentalist, or a member of the sound and production team behind the scenes.
GCS students learn to live beyond themselves and serve others as Jesus did. Students are provided choices that include local, domestic, and international mission trip opportunities. Whether a student is in middle or high school, serving others is cultivated locally and domestically as it is an opportunity to impact the world for Jesus.
Our high school students get to be the hands and feet of Jesus outside of the walls of our campus and community through a variety of mission opportunities. Whether a student desires to help at a local senior senior center, help with building projects in Kentucky, serve families in need in Utah, or participate in a week-long international trip in the Dominican Republic, GCS students learn to live beyond themselves. Initial communication for these service opportunities begin in the spring semester of each year in order to help students and families plan ahead. Over the last three years the participation by high school students in mission trips has almost doubled. GCS students are excited about loving God and loving people.
Our students and staff have a global reach through our International Student Program. Our core values come to life as we love, lead, teach and train these students, ultimately sending them back to their home countries to share the love of Jesus.
