When Jack and Jill pursue God’s will for Christian education, will they find a school designed to teach them a vocation? Must Jill and Jack face the fact that they have been excluded? Although the call is to offer to all, their skills are not included! We need to pray that in this day when trades uphold our Nation, the Christian schools will change their views on vocational education.
Why Should Christian Schools Offer Vocational Programs to High School Students?
Who Will Attend?
How to Get Started?
What Vocational Programs Should Be Offered?
ARE YOU FOLLOWING YOUR OWN MISSION STATEMENT?
Your Mission Statement should describe the reason for your Christian School’s existence. Along with the core beliefs and core values, your Mission Statement should affirm what your school hopes to achieve if it successfully fulfills your school’s mission.
A Christian school’s Mission Statement should answer four key questions:
(1) Who are you? (2) What do you do? (3) Why do you do it? (4) For whom are you doing it?
The answer to the fourth question is what you really need to focus on. Who are you serving? This is not referring to service to the Lord but rather to whom you are providing your Christian educational services to. Is your Christian school limiting educational services to solely the academically inclined student?
Is your Christian school encouraging and allowing all your students to fully display and develop their diverse talents and skills–God-given talents and skills? Are you truly training students in the way they should go? Are you preparing them for the calling that God has placed on their lives, a calling that is clearly and visibly substantiated by unmistakable God-given gifts and talents?
Or is your Christian school training your students in the way you have always trained your students–the way that you know and are familiar with–the way that most other Christian schools are training their students?
Perhaps you may want to review your school’s Mission Statement and reconsider whether it is fully being followed. You may discover that you either need to change your Mission Statement or change your course offerings to include Christian-based vocational education programs.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
WHO HAVE ADDED VOCATIONAL PROGRAM CHOICES
OR WHO ARE IN THE PROCESS
OF ADDING VOCATIONAL PROGRAM CHOICES
