We are a Christ-centered education ministry of Faith Community Church in Seminole. As a Christ-centered ministry, we acknowledge the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Word of God, the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit in all of life. We do not seek to divide education, vocation, or any other aspect of life into spiritual and secular compartments. We acknowledge that all truth is God’s truth and that all learning is an effort to relate to God, self, others, and the created world. We value each individual connected to our ministry community (e.g., employees, board members, students, parents, and volunteers) as created by God, with gifts to be strengthened, weaknesses to be overcome, and responsibilities to be carried out. We call parents and all our ministry employees to partner in the training and education of students for the glory of God and the spiritual good of those students. We call students to submit to the loving mentors that God has provided for this purpose. As a Christ-centered ministry, we affirm Biblical and historic Christian orthodoxy, and adopt as part of our Statement of Faith, the Nicene Creed, which provides as follows: 

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father [and the Son].* With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. 

*A later addition by the western church, this phrase is not accepted by Eastern Orthodox churches and affirmation of it is not required.

As part of our Statement of Faith, and in accord with Scripture and two thousand years of Christian tradition, we also affirm and adopt as our beliefs the following Biblical truths concerning marriage, biological sex, human sexuality, and the sanctity of life: 

The Bible teaches that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female; these two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the image and nature of God (Genesis 1:26-27). Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person. Affirmation of one’s biological sex is an affirmation of the image of God within that person. 

The term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one biological man and one biological woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Genesis 2:18-25). God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a biological man and a biological woman who are married to each other; God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between one biological man and one biological woman (1 Corinthians 6:18; 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4). 

Any form of sexual immorality (including without limitation adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bestiality, pedophilia, and use of pornography) is sinful and contrary to God's good purposes (Matthew 15:18-20; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

Every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity; hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture (Mark 12:28-31; Luke 6:31). 

God has created mankind in His image and that human life begins at conception. It is God who uniquely forms every human being and gives special dignity, personal freedom, and individual accountability among all the works of His creation. God created each person’s inmost being, knitting each person together in the womb of that person’s mother (Psalm 139:13). As God’s individualized and personal creation, each person is fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139:14). God has ordained all the days of each person’s life before they came to be (Psalm 139:16). 

Based on Scripture, we therefore believe that from the moment of conception until natural death, every human life is sacred because every human life has been created by God, in His image and likeness. We believe that from the moment of conception every human life must be recognized, respected, and protected as having the rights of a person and the inviolable right to life. Because human life begins at the moment of conception, it is against our religious convictions to formally or materially cooperate in the abortion or other termination of unborn human life, including without limitation by surgical abortion or use of drugs, or services that have the intent, design, effect, or risk of terminating unborn human life or preventing its implantation and growth post-fertilization. 

The Statement of Faith set forth in this document does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. For purposes of our ministry’s faith, doctrine, practice, policy, and discipline, our Board of Directors is our ministry’s final interpretive authority on the application of our Statement of Faith.

Under God and the authority of Scripture, our ministry’s Board, employees, and volunteers, are required to wholeheartedly affirm and carry out all their work and service for our ministry consistent with our Statement of Faith.