Our children are increasingly met with challenges in a world that views everything as relative with no absolute truths. The one truth that gives salvation can also help our children to cope with everyday living. Children today more than ever need the support of a safe nurturing environment. They need a place they can feel free to express and explore their faith. They need a Christian worldview.

In "The Purpose Driven Life" Rick Warren uses scripture to support his tenant that one of our five purposes for being on this earth is "You Were Formed for God's Family." Our local church is one form of God's family. For adolescents, the importance of peers in their lives is a given. Parents have the responsibility to help their children develop a good moral character. When these students are brought together in the Christian school setting, there is the opportunity for what retired Brewster Academy headmaster, David Smith calls the "good kid factor." A Christian school setting offers the opportunity for so much more than a school; it represents an important part of God's family for today's Christian youth.       next-->