One School - Four Campuses
Friends Christian School is a place where students learn and grow in an environment that is centered on Jesus Christ
welcome to Friends christian School!
Thank you for your interest in Friends Christian School. Throughout its 45 year history, FCS has provided an exemplary academic experience from preschool through elementary and on into middle school. Friends students are provided with the skills to excel academically, spiritually, and socially as they graduate to high school and beyond. It is our goal for each student to realize his or her God-given talents and to develop into the leaders our Lord would have them become.
Our desire is to help raise a generation that is confident in their faith and willing to stand for what is right. Christ teaches that we should not be ashamed of our faith and we should recognize the blessings we have through our belief in Him. At the same time, we are to stand out through our leadership, integrity, compassion for others, and our willingness to do what is right even when challenged. As a family new to FCS, you will see that we truly want to partner with your family to help your child thrive.
Friends Christian is the rare school that provides an accredited academic program taught from a Christian worldview. As a new family, you will quickly learn that FCS teaches to the whole child and provides a level of care that is hard to find. Please join us as we work together to raise the next generation of leaders.
Todd Perkins
Head of School
MISSION
Friends Christian School exists to develop, nurture, and equip students to positively impact their world for Jesus Christ.
VISION
Friends Christian School, a ministry of Friends Church Yorba Linda, seeks to provide a rigorous and Biblically integrated curricular and extra-curricular program promoting the growth of the whole child through a balanced and integrated focus on: academics, athletics, arts, technology, faith, and social/emotional development.
LION TRACKS
Faithful followers of Christ
Collaborative and diligent workers
Seekers of knowledge and critical thinkers
Lifelong self-directed learners
Involved with ministry with the community
Obedient servants for God and others
Notable and effective communicators
Spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically well developed
CORE VALUES
We integrate Biblical Truth into everything
- Biblical studies, as a core subject, is taught at every grade level and a Christian worldview, integrating both faith and learning, is implemented in all areas of the curricular and extra curricular programs.
We educate the whole child with excellence
- Friends Christian School is committed to academic excellence, educating the whole child, maximizing each student’s potential, encouraging critical thinking, problem solving, and effective communication within the context of a Biblical worldview.
We live out what we believe as followers of Christ
- Our faculty and students will not only study Biblical truth but will demonstrate Christian character: godly living, healthy relationships, Christian ministry, and sharing of our faith.
We partner with parents
- Friends Christian School believes that parents have the primary responsibility for the education of their children and our role is to partner with them in the training and instruction of their children.
STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of Christian education at Friends Christian School is based upon the existence of a living God Who created all things and has revealed Himself to us. The revelation has come through the written Word, the Bible, and through the living Word, Jesus Christ, and through creation.
The Bible is the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God. Jesus Christ is the central theme of history and is the central authority of what men say, do or believe. Man was created in God’s image, but that image was ruined at the fall when man chose to sin against God. God provided a way of redemption for man through the incarnation, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. A regenerated person receives the Holy Spirit to guide him into all truth.
The education at Friends Christian School is God-centered and seeks to view life in every dimension as God sees it. All educational goals and objectives are found within the Bible, among which are glorifying God, reaching the lost, and training and maturing individual believers.
All members of the educational experience at Friends Christian School are personally committed to Jesus Christ. We believe that the educational experience cannot truly take place apart from the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We believe that proper relationships among family, church, and school are essential to Christian education. Friends Christian School, as a ministry of the church, is an extension of the educational process of the home.
The education offered at Friends Christian School is designed to meet the student on his/her level of development and growth. We strive to instill the proper priorities of life, the first being individual commitment to Jesus Christ. The educators at Friends Christian School are committed to these basic principles and communicate them effectively.
WHAT WE BELIEVE...
- that the Bible is the only inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God and is the standard for Christian living (Matthew 19:4–5 Mark 12:26; Romans 15:4; I Corinthians 14:37; II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:21; II Peter 3:2; II Peter 3:16).
- that there is one God, eternally existent in three (3) persons: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, each of Whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity (Matthew 28:18–19; John 1:1–2; John 1:14; John 10:30; Acts 5:3–4; II Corinthians 13:14; Hebrews 1:1–3; Revelation 1:4–6).
- in the Deity of Christ, 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, in His Lordship over all of life, and in His personal return in power and glory (Luke 1:30–35; John 1:1; John 1:18; John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5–8; Hebrews 4:15; Leviticus 17:11; Matthew 26:28; John 1:29; Matthew 28:5–6; John 20:17; Acts 2:32-36; Philippians 3:20; I Thessalonians 4:13–18; Titus 2:13).
- that man, though created in the image of God, is separated from God because of sin and that every person is born in a state of sin and in need of salvation in order to be reconciled to God (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 6:5; Psalm 14:1–3; Psalm 51:5; John 6:53).
- that salvation is by grace alone through faith, by the merit of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, apart from any work (Ephesians 2:8; Isaiah 64:6; John 5:24; John 10:27–30; Romans 8:35–39).
- in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation, that the Holy Spirit indwells all believers, that the Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to all believers to be exercised for God’s glory and the edification of believers, that all gifts are to be used in accordance with God’s Word, and that holy living, not ecstatic spiritual experience, is to be the goal of every believer (I Corinthians 13:1–4; I Corinthians 14:19; John 16:13–14; John 3:6; John 16:7–11; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:30; I John 2:20–27; Ephesians 4:11–12).
- that the Christian is called to live a holy life, separated from patterns of fornication, idolatry, adultery, homosexuality, thievery, covetousness, drunkenness, reviling, and swindling (I Corinthians 6:9–11; Romans 12:1–2; James 4:4; II Corinthians 6:14; I John 2:16).
- that the Scripture teaches that God’s people are to assemble together regularly for worship, for edification through the Scriptures, and for mutual encouragement (Hebrews 10:23–25; Acts 2:42; Acts 20:7; I Corinthians 12:20–28; I Corinthians 16:1–2; Ephesians 4:11–16; I Timothy 4:13; II Timothy 3:16; II Timothy 4:2).
- in the individual access of every believer to God through Christ, and the spiritual unity of believers in Christ (Hebrews 7:25; I John 2:1; I Timothy 2:5; I Corinthians 12:12–14; Ephesians 1:20-23; Ephesians 4:3–6; Colossians 3:14–15).
- in the resurrection of the saved unto eternal life, and the lost unto eternal damnation (Luke 16:19-26; II Corinthians 5:8; II Thessalonians 1:7–9; Jude 6:7; Revelation 20:11–15).