Sycamore Christian Academy is a classical Christian school startup in southwest Ohio. We believe the pusuit of goodness, truth, and beauty leads one to the flourishing life envisioned by David in Psalm 1:1-3.
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Our Vision
Sycamore Christian Academy enables urban families to experience an abundant life by equipping, empowering, and engaging them in meaningful, Christ-centered education and discipleship.
Our Mission
Sycamore Christian Academy uses a classical method rooted in the Christian worldview. We nurture students’ appreciation of truth, goodness, and beauty as they strive for excellence, while guiding them to live purposefully in the service of God and man.
A. God is honored:
The rightful end of education is to enable the student to more fully honor and glorify God.
B. God is the foundation of all knowledge:
All knowledge will be presented as part of an integrated whole, with God as revealed in His Scriptures at the center. All true knowledge is a reflection of the Creator. The Christian worldview, which is further defined in our Statement of Faith, will be presupposed in all subjects.
C. The Western classical tradition is thoroughly taught:
The foundation of Western civilization will be emphasized through the study of history, philosophy, science, the arts, literature, and classical language. The method of instruction will implement the Trivium: Grammar (the fundamental data and interrelated rules of a subject); Logic (the ordered relationship of particulars in a subject); and Rhetoric (the clear expression of the grammar and logic of that subject).
D. Parents are assisted in the education of their children:
Parents are responsible for the training and instruction of their children. Sycamore Christian Academy endeavors to assist parents in this responsibility.
E. In all its levels, programs, and teaching, Foundations Academy will:
1) Encourage every student to develop a love for learning and to live up to his or her academic potential;
2) Provide a clear model of the biblical Christian life through our staff and Board;
3) Nurture every student’s relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ; and
4) Provide an orderly atmosphere conducive to attaining the above goals.
Our Statement of Faith
We believe that God reveals Himself through the creation, preservation, and government of the universe. We believe that God makes Himself more clearly and fully known through the Scriptures, which are the only inerrant and infallible Word of God, our ultimate and final authoritative rule for faith and practice. These Scriptures are made up of 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation, the authority of which depend not upon the testimony of any man or church, and are all to be received as the Word of God.
We believe that there is but one living and true God, eternally existent in three Persons of one power, substance, and eternity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He is perfectly wise, the overflowing fountain of all good. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. In all things He is limited by nothing other than His own nature and character. We believe the God we serve is holy, righteous, good, loving, and full of mercy. He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Governor of all that has been made.
We believe in the true deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, such that two distinct natures, divine and human, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that Adam was made from the dust of the ground and formed after God’s image and likeness, which was good, righteous, and holy. Because of Adam’s sin all mankind is in a state of rebellion against God. For the salvation of such lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary.
We believe that salvation is by grace through faith alone, and that faith without works is dead. We believe that God freely justifies His own, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous, for the sake of Jesus Christ alone.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, as the Spirit of Christ within us enables us to do freely and cheerfully what the will of God revealed in Scripture requires to be done. We believe that good works are only those which arise from true faith, conform to God’s Word, and are done for His glory.
We believe God has appointed a day when He will judge the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved to the resurrection of life, and those who are lost to the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. All who are united to Christ as Head of the Church are united to one another in love, and have communion in each other’s gifts and graces.
We believe that God defined marriage as the life-long covenant between one man and one woman, and that all forms of sexual activity outside of marriage are sin.
We believe that God immutably creates each person to reflect His image as male or female.
We welcome members who hold to traditional, conservative Christian othodoxy and our statement of faith (above). Our board reserves the right to remove member who are openly, in our sole judgement, opposed to the above statement.
Our Authority
Our schools operate as an extension of the family, under the authority of fathers who are required to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord (Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6). Some of our schools operate under the authority structure of a church, and therefore these schools have extended authority in the area of family and community. The authority granted to fathers and mothers in Scripture is passed to the school in loco parentis. This means that, for the development of paideia in students while at school, the school operates with the same authority that fathers have in the raising of children. Our position on authority influences our view of Government and its role in education.