Good Shepherd School - Mission & Seal

Mission Statement

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Good Shepherd School’s mission is to provide an academically excellent education that is distinctively Classical and Christian in order to equip students to be the moral and intellectual leaders in their callings.

To assist parents in their educational responsibility Good Shepherd offers a curriculum that:
      • imparts the academic disciplines in accord with a high standard of excellence.
      • is faithful to Holy Scripture.
      • instructs the students in the historic Christian faith.
      • cultivates righteous character in accord with the Ten Commandments.
      • equips students to be the moral and intellectual leaders in their
          callings and thereby brings glory to God and advances His kingdom.

Our Anglican heritage provides the Christian framework in which we enrich our students with the prayers, great hymns, and sung psalms of historic, orthodox Christianity.

Good Shepherd Seal

GSS Seal

CROSS OF CHRIST – Christ Centered Education
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega – the beginning and the end. In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Colossians 2:3). A Christian education must equip the pupil with the shield of faith, the armor of God, and build upon Jesus Christ as the starting point and substance of all sound learning.

CROWN – Dominion in One’s Calling (Vocation)
To foster in children the desire, ability, and sense of responsibility to develop expertise, in accord with each one’s gifts and talents, in the area of life to which they are called, in order to bring that field under the dominion of Christ through their life-long service to Him with a view to bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ ( 2 Corinthians 10:5).

QUIILL & SCROLL – Academic Excellence
A classical education equips children with the foundational, intellectual, and academic tools necessary to become independent, excelling, life-long learners and productive citizens in society. They learn to explore, to the glory of God, the depth and breadth of God’s works in every sphere of knowledge. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7).

TREE BESIDE THE WATER – Upright Character
Success in one’s life, on God’s terms, is tied to the upright character of the godly. Psalm 1 compares the righteous man to a tree planted by the rivers of water whose life is fruitful, productive, and truly blessed. At the center of his life is the law of the Lord, represented by the symbol of the Triune God in the leafy part of the tree.

LAMP – The Holy Bible
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Christian education trains the pupil to study every academic discipline from the perspective of Holy Scripture, and thereby learn how to use the Word of God to guide oneself in every aspect of daily life.

SOLI DEO GLORIA
The Latin phrase Soli Deo Gloria, (To God Alone Be The Glory) sums up our goal as a Christian school. In the words of St. Paul, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).