Grace Fellowship Christian Academy began six years ago as a cooperative to assist students who were sent home during COVID. From that beginning, GFCA is now a conventional K-8 school with a 9-12 hybrid program where we instruct approximately 80 students. Grace Fellowship Christian Academy exists to support parents and the church in the common goal of “raising up a child in the way he/she should go.” Our mission is to equip the minds and nurture the hearts of these young people, preparing them to be Christian leaders who love Christ with their whole heart, soul, mind and strength and who seek to be a transforming influence in their world. ● The Holy Scriptures. We believe the Bible, or Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative, inerrant Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:20-21). The Godhead. We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. (Deuteronomy 6:4, Matthew 28:19, John 10:30). ● Jesus Christ. We believe in the deity of Christ (John 10:33); His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:35); His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 7:26); His miracles (John 2:11); His vicarious and atoning death (I Corinthians 15:3, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 2:9); His resurrection (John 11:25, I Corinthians 15:4); His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16:19); and His personal return in power and glory (Acts 1:11, Revelation 19:11). ● The Holy Spirit. We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature, that men are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ, and that only by God's grace and through faith alone we are saved (John 3:16-19, John 5:24, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8-9, Ephesians 2:8-10, Titus 3:5). ● We also believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. (Romans 8:13-14, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 5:18). ● The Eternal State. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost. They that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:28-29). ● The Body of Christ. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8:9, I Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 3:26-28). ● Sanctity of Marriage. We believe that the term marriage has only one meaning: the uniting of one natural born man and one natural born woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Genesis 2:18-25). We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4). We believe that God’s command is that there be no sexual intimacy outside of or apart from marriage between a man and a woman. ● Gender. We believe that God wonderfully foreordained and immutably created each person as either male or female in conformity with his or her naturally born biological sex. These two distinct yet complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God (Genesis 1:26-27). Our Statement of Faith does not exhaust the extent of our faith or beliefs. The Bible, as the inspired and infallible Word of God, speaks with absolute authority regarding the proper conduct of mankind and is the unchanging foundation for all belief and behavior. We do believe that the foregoing Statement of Faith accurately represents the teaching of the Bible and therefore is binding upon all employees. The GFCA Board of Directors holds final interpretative authority on Biblical meaning and application with regard to faith, doctrine, policy, practice, and discipline. We are not affiliated with any denomination. The theology we hold to is that of historic, orthodox Christian doctrine, the authority of scripture, the Trinity, and salvation by grace through faith