MISSION
Our Mission: Christ Presbyterian Academy, an educational ministry of Christ Presbyterian Church, assists
Christian families in helping students come to know God, evaluate all knowledge and all life by His truth, and
live transformed by His truth for His glory.
Mission Summary: Transformation through Education
As an educational ministry of
Christ Presbyterian Church
(CPC), the Academy is ...
• Governed by a board of trustees
operating under and deriving authority
from the Session of Christ Presbyterian
Church.
• Committed to provide a high quality
and diverse learning experience with
a Christian worldview for covenantal*
students in the greater Nashville area,
as well as an education designed to
serve the ever-growing educational
needs in our city, region, and world.
• Focused on our core purpose as a life-
giving educational ministry in order
to fulfill Christ’s command to engage
all people and nations with the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and in support of the
CPC mission: To follow Christ in His
mission of loving people, places, and
things to life.
* Covenant students are children with at
least one parent/guardian who professes
faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and
risen Savior.
We assist Christian families
as we ...
• Partner with parents to work together
in balanced relationship of church,
home, and school for investment in the
student’s maturation.
• Cultivate a hospitable and engaging
atmosphere to create strong
community .
• Consistently communicate with
families about the progress of
each student.
• Prepare students to be faithful adults
characterized by a desire to shape and
redeem the broader culture in which
they live, work, play, and worship
through the message of the Gospel.
• Utilize our Parent Connect
organization to offer opportunities for
families to be positively involved in
the CPA community and their child’s
educational experience.
We help students come to
know God when we ...
• Seek intimacy with Jesus Christ, both
individually and in community.
• Engage each student with a pursuant
love, without conditions.
• Identify and encourage students’ gifts
and passions in the context of God’s
larger story of redemption, servant
leadership, and cultural renewal.
• Teach and handle accurately the
Word of God.
• Integrate the message of the Gospel
into every facet of our programs
through content, modeling, and
mentoring.
We teach students to evaluate
all knowledge and all life by His
truth when our education ...
• Reveals God’s truth in all things,
secular and sacred.
• Connects the relevancy of content to
the Gospel narrative.
• Teaches global literacy in all areas to
affirm God’s truth and dispel fallacy.
• Offers multiple levels of Christian
discipleship through diverse offerings
to facilitate deeper learning and
understanding of spiritual matters.
Students live transformed by His
truth for His glory when they ...
• Surrender their old life for new life in
Christ through the redemptive work
of Christ’s death on the cross, the
power of His Resurrection, and the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
• Experience the promise of the Gospel
and receive God’s unconditional love
and peace.
• Study the Word of God and experience
the flourishing that happens as a result
of following Him.
• Think critically through the lens of
faith and act in obedience to God,
trusting Him for the outcome.
• Seek to use every situation and
experience to glorify God.
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