We will be spending the afternoon with the faculty and staff at VCA in St. Louis to reflect on numerous ways a theology of the image of God effects a biblical approach to classroom management and procedures.

We will be continuing our 2024-2025 theme of building on our Christian Worldview Foundation by developing the fluency to apply fundamental categories of a biblical worldview to Covenant’s core values or unique distinctives. For the month of September, we will be reflecting on the school’s commitment to the “Specials” through the lens of the RenewEd worldview grid.

Having already worked to develop a foundation and framework for thinking Christianly about education, the faculty and staff at Covenant Christian school are going to deeper levels by holding critical areas of the school culture and practice under the lens of this framework. Over the corse of the 2024-2025 school year, RenewEd will partner with CCS on seven of these core topics. Our first is going to be on Stewardship.

We’re going to be at Oklahoma Christian School to spend the day with the elementary school faculty to renew an emphasis on the centrality of the gospel for Spiritual Formation. As always, our primary goal is to help OCS develop a framework of thinking Christianly about the task of education - a framework that can be applied to every area of the school.

Morning sessions

1. Devotion from Psalm 127 and the eternal "Why" of Christian education

- including an emphasis on faith / habit formation

2. A crash course in what Christian education is and isn't

- defining Christian worldview, biblical integration, and primary purposes

3. The Ultimacy of God and Dependency on Truth

Afternoon Sessions

4. Classrooms committed to seeing our students flourish as God's image bearers

5. Grace Prompted Obedience

- how this becomes the structure, habit, feel, and commitment of the school

6. Creation, Fall, and Redemption as themes we continually revisit

As Cornerstone Christian Academy is opening its doors to its first, normal year of operation, RenewEd is partnering with the school faculty and staff to establish a strong gospel-foundation and framework for how we think about Christian education and then develop the tools for guiding practice.

This start-of-the-year session is open to all Christian school teachers in the St. Louis area.

Noah Brink will be sharing as one of the Panelists for ACSI’s Spiritual Formation Webinar Series. Part 2 of the series will focus on Spiritual Formation as an Intentional Community Endeavor. Learn more or register for the event at ACSI’s page for the event.

Noah will be working with the faculty and staff from Covenant Christian School to build upon earlier sessions. As the faculty has worked to developed a Worldview Foundation, Noah is going to help the faculty increase their Worldview Fluency by focussing on individual distinctives of CCS and unpack them through a theological lens, shaped by our Worldview Grid.