At Christian Chapel Academy, our mission is to provide a foundation for moral integrity and academic excellence within a framework of Biblical Christianity.
We challenge students to have a higher focus, emphasizing leadership through spiritual growth, academic excellence, personal responsibility, and service to others.
Spiritual Growth
CCA is committed to integrating excellent academics with biblical truth. Through the application of biblical principles in all areas of study, students develop a thorough knowledge of the Word, strengthen their faith, and deepen their personal relationship with the Lord. Students are challenged to examine multiple worldviews in order to better engage the culture and apply their faith. Weekly age-appropriate chapel services and prayer are regular parts of every day, helping students experience the value of daily time spent with God.
Academic Excellence
Academic excellence begins with outstanding teachers. CCA faculty members are committed Christians and the heart of our school. Certified educators who have chosen to teach in a Christian environment, our teachers have the freedom to integrate academic excellence with biblical truth, enabling them to address both aspects of students’ lives. Small class sizes allow our teachers–many of whom hold advanced degrees–to celebrate every student, recognizing each for their unique gifts and talents. Our curriculum includes textbooks, materials, and activities that are academically solid and biblically sound, designed to encourage critical thinking, discernment and self-expression. Using technology solutions and other research-proven instructional strategies, we engage students in hands-on learning and creative problem-solving.
Personal Responsibility
At CCA we believe that personal responsibility is a cornerstone of success in learning and in life. We believe that a higher focus means developing self-discipline in every area of life, owning accountability for behavior and achievement. The CCA Code of Conduct emphasizes kindness, respect, stewardship, and safe behaviors. In handling conflict, we teach resolution through what is often called the ‘Matthew 18 Principle’. Students learn that through attendance and homework, they carry a key responsibility for their own education, even as they recognize parents and teacher as partners in their learning.
Service to others
At CCA, we believe a vibrant faith is expressed through a compassionate heart and service to others. All students participate in service projects to benefit a variety of organizations in the community, including The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri, Project Rescue, Coyote Hill Christian Children’s Home, and Primrose Hill Teen Challenge. Our focus on service extends to CCA’s partnership with families. We established the Family Service Agreement to encourage parental involvement, enhance learning opportunities for students, build relationships in our community, and offset some of the school’s operational costs. Opportunities to serve are wide and varied, but typically include volunteering for learning centers, field trips, lunchroom, recess, or the library. Many parents chose to get involved with our active Parent Teacher Organization as a way to serve, and the group meets monthly to coordinate volunteer needs, special events, and fundraising functions.
The Bible is the Inspired Word of God
The Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God, the only written revelation from God to man. The Bible is infallible and the authoritative rule of faith and conduct for mankind. (II Timothy 3:15-17, I Thessalonians 2:13 & Peter 1:21).
There is one True God
God is called by many different names because of the the different dimensions of His personality, but God is one (Deuteronomy 6:4). God is super-dimensional and eternally self-existent (John 8:54-59). God is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. He is the creator of the heavens and earth (Genesis 1 & 2). While God is one, He has revealed Himself in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).
Jesus Christ is the Son of God
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The Scripture declares His virgin birth (Matthew 1:18-23) His sinless life (Hebrews 7:26 & I Peter 2:22 & I John 3: 4,5), His miracles (Acts 2:22 & 10:37-38), His death on the cross as a substitute for us all (II Corinthians 5:21, I Peter 2:24 & I Corinthians 15:4), His bodily resurrection from the dead (Matthew 28:1-6 & I Corinthians 15:4), and His exaltation to the right hand of God (Acts 1:9,11 & Philippians 2:9-11).
The Fall of Man
Man was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26). By a voluntary act of the will, Adam and Eve disobeyed God (Genesis 3:6). That first sin had several repercussions: Man was excommunicated from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:23), a curse was pronounced (Genesis 3:14-19), the process of physical death began (Genesis 2:17), and man died spiritually (Romans 5:12-19). Sin seperated humankind from God (Ephesians 2:11-18), and left man in a fallen and sinful condition (Romans 3:23).
The Salvation of Man
The only means of salvation is Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12 & John 14:6). He died on the cross to pay the penalty of our sins (I Peter 2:24). He offers each of us a pardon for our sins (Hebrews 9:26) and wants us to become children of God (John 1:12). When we put our faith in Christ, it triggers a spiritual chain reaction. We become the Temple of the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 6:19). Our names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Revelations 3:5). We become citizens of heaven (Philippians 3:20-21). We are given eternal life (John 3:16). We are adopted and become children of God (Galatians 4:4-7). Our sins are forgiven and forgotten (Hebrews 8:12). We are credited with the righteousness of Christ (Romans 4:4-5). We are born again (John 3:3). God takes ownership of us (I Corinthians 6:20). We receive an eternal inheritance (Ephesians 1:13-14 & I Peter 1:3-5). The evidence of salvation is two-fold. The internal evidence is the direct witness of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:16). The external evidence is the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). We become a new creation (II Corinthians 5:17), and we are transformed into the image of Christ (II Corinthians 3:18).