About Western

OUR MISSION

The mission of Western Christian Schools is to provide a Christ-centered community that integrates faith and quality education.
The Mission Statement was developed through the faculty and adopted by the Board of Trustees. While the current mission statement is relatively new, the essential qualities and goals expressed in it date back to the earliest days of Western.

BRIEF HISTORY OF WCS

In 1920, the Brethren in Christ Church of Southern California opened a private secondary school, Beulah Academy. By 1935, growth necessitated a move to new facilities. In 1963, the school was reorganized as a non-denominational, not-for-profit organization under the name of Western Christian School, and relocated to Pomona. In 1970, the school moved to the Hillside Campus in Glendora, owned by Azusa Pacific Schools. The school moved to Covina in 1980.

Presently, our Western Christian High School facility consists of four buildings that house 25 classrooms, a cafeteria/auditorium, a library, and administrative offices. Our ESL high school program, established in 1999 for students with I-20 visas, currently educates almost 50 students from 11 countries at our Glendora campus.

In 1982, a series of providential events made possible the purchase of a historical school campus in the Claremont foothills for our preschool, pre K, elementary and Middle School programs. This park-like campus contains two historic office and classroom buildings, a multipurpose cafeteria, two additional classroom buildings (1962 and 2000), extensive playground and sports activities fields, and a swimming pool.

PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy of Western Christian Schools is founded on basic Biblical principles which rest in the sovereignty of God and on a personal relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ.  We believe in one true God, the creator and sustainer of all things, who is the source of all knowledge, truth and virtue; in Him is found purpose and meaning for life.

We affirm there is an essential unity in truth as revealed in the Old and New Testament scriptures and as discovered through a variety of human disciplines; the artistic, social, scientific and theological.  Our educational process integrates knowledge discovered by human inquiry with knowledge revealed especially by the Creator.  We believe this life style is consistent with God’s word.  Further, as an extension of the home and church, we have the privilege and responsibility of helping nurture the development of each student academically, spiritually, socially and physically.

SCHOOL OBJECTIVES

1. To provide an educational structure and atmosphere that fosters academic training, stimulates academic curiosity and critical thinking and develops a love and appreciation for knowledge and understanding.
2. To instill a sense of individual worth, along with an understanding of individual strengths and limitations and to give direction toward setting life goals.
3. To impart a respect for order in God’s universe and an understanding of the necessity for order and discipline in all areas of life.
4. To lead students to a personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and a life of obedience to Him as Lord.
5. To train Christian men and women to grasp the importance of servant-hood in their relationships with God and their community in order to impact our world in a positive manner for Jesus Christ.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

1. We believe the Bible, composed of the Old and the New Testaments, is the Word of God; a divine, supernatural, infallible revelation.  We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the original writings of the Scriptures and that they are wholly without error.
2. We believe in the Triune God, eternally existing in three persons:  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of God the Father and His personal return in power and glory.
4. We believe that man, created in the image of God, fell into sin through the sin of the first Adam and is lost and separated from God.  We believe that lost mankind must be born again and regenerated by the Holy Spirit.  Salvation is by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly and victorious life.
6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved into the resurrection of eternal life and they that are lost into the resurrection of eternal damnation.  Heaven is a place of blessedness.  Hell is a place of eternal suffering.
7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.