Welcome to our PreK - high School Learning Community
Welcome from Executive Director Jeff Snyder
Raising children is the biggest, most important job we will ever have and carries with it far-reaching consequences.
Your decision about how and where you educate your child will have a life-changing effect on your child’s moral development. Moral development is foundational to intellectual and social development.
Regarding this, it is essential that the home and the classroom are in sync. Our deepest desire in Foundations is to partner with parents to provide their children with an education that leads them to know God and grow in wisdom and character. To accomplish this, we unite with parents via a framework that is neither a school nor a homeschool, but that combines elements of both.
Since we are something between a traditional school and a homeschool, we prefer to call ourselves a Hybrid Homeschool Learning Community, as we continue to learn, grow, and develop this model of education.
In our Learning Community we enroll families, not just students. Our innovative membership model allows families to be A, B or C Members, depending on their ability and interest in participating in the day-to-day activities of our distinctively Christian Learning Community.
Welcome from Board President Dori Parker
Thank you for your interest in Foundations First Christian. On behalf of the Board, I would like to give you a little glimpse into the heartbeat of FFC and why we opened our doors in 2021.
FFC exists as an alternative to traditional education in the form of both public and “private” schools. FFC is not a school but a uniquely different Learning Community.
At FFC, we profoundly and deeply believe that parents are the primary influencers in the lives of their children. Furthermore, we believe that the Bible is a roadmap for how we are to live the fullest and most abundant lives that God has sovereignly ordained before the beginning of time. We believe that each individual is made in the Image of God and has been given their own unique gifts, talents and abilities. As their parents, you are privileged with the responsibility of unpacking these wonderful attributes and stewarding them wisely. We also know that aspects of this can be overwhelming and daunting, and we often need people to jump into the trenches with us and help, which is why we exist as a Learning Community.
Regardless of where you are on your spiritual journey, we’d love to have you as part of our growing community anyone who supports our Mission and values. Our hope and prayer is that you will find a place that demonstrates joy, love, peace and compassion. And that you can be confident that while we are not a perfect place, we are a growing place.
Philosophy of Education
WATER
Whole-Person
Whole-Person
For our learning community there are biblical educational principles that we ascribe to help us deliver what we believe is genuine education.
These principles can be summed up with the anachronym: WATER. As living things require water to flourish and grow, so our children require an education with these essential elements to grow to their full potential.
Whole-Person
Whole-Person
Whole-Person
W - Genuine education is a growth process involving the WHOLE-PERSON: mind, body, spirit, and soul. Luke 2:52 tells us that “Jesus grew in wisdom (mind/mental), stature (body/physical) and in favor with God (soul/spiritual) and man (social/emotional).” All areas of who we are as a person created by God are important and should be included in the education journey.
All-Truth
Whole-Person
TransformatiON
A - Genuine education is ALL-TRUTH. According to Proverbs 1:7, “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” The most important book that was ever written, the Bible, and the most important person who ever walked the earth, Jesus Christ must be at the center of a TRUE education. (II Tim. 3:16-17; Col. 1:15-17)
TransformatiON
TransformatiON
TransformatiON
T - Genuine education is TRANSFORMATIONAL. The goal of education is not to store up content-based knowledge to be regurgitated for a test, but to change a student’s life: their beliefs, character, values, self-image, and conduct. Romans 12:2 tells us to “not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind”.
Experiential
TransformatiON
Experiential
E - Genuine education is EXPERIENTIAL. Learning involves practicing and doing, trial and error, success and failure. It involves acting on our beliefs, applying what we know and putting our knowledge into action that produces desired results. It is one thing to know something intellectually. It is something completely different to know it experientially.
Relational
TransformatiON
Experiential
R - Genuine education is RELATIONAL. The student-teacher relationship is fundamental and crucial, because students become like those who teach them. Teachers are not merely conveyors of information; they are role models that will be imitated. Students may learn what we tell them, but they will most certainly learn what we live out before them.