Our children live in an era filled with explosive information, the majority of which is embedded with a message just the opposite of what God wants them to hear. Our children might not be hearing the word of God for days unless we are intentional. When we were deciding on our kids’ education – public school, home school, or private Christian school, we felt we were so uncertain of the path and desperately needed God’s help and wisdom.

The Lord has long ago put in our hearts a burden to share the love of God with our local community and we had been working on building up the character and positive self-image of kids through art classes. We want to connect more with the community and become friends with families around us, going to public school is the most obvious and effective way to get connected closely in the community, although we know we will miss the Christ-centered community of home school families and private Christian schools. But when we ask ourselves this question, we don’t have a clear and precise answer: How much influence the secular humanism in public schools have on the children, if they attend church on Sunday with their parents?

Until I saw this research conducted by Nehemiah Institute on this topic. Nehemiah Institute has been conducting “worldview assessments” among high school students since 1988. The test consists of a series of statements carefully structured to identify whether a person’s worldview agrees or disagrees with a biblical principle in five categories: Politics, Economics, Education, Religion, and Social Issues (PEERS). In 2015, the test showed that 90%+ of students from Christian homes in America attending public schools fell into the box on the right bottom of the chart– indicating spiritual drought and rooted in secularism, while students from biblical worldview Christian schools and home schools ( which accounts for only 2% and 3% of the youth group*) show a biblical worldview. (*statistics in 2015. The number has increased greatly since the COVID-19 pandemic. According to National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) homeschool statistics, during the 2020-2021 school year, there were 3.7 million homeschool students in the U.S. accounting for 6.73% of students).

“These results mean that the students have intentionally rejected the basic tenets of Biblical Theism in favor of the basic tenets of Humanism/Secularism,” Dan Smithwick of Nehemiah Institute said. “In short, it means that the secularization of our culture has more successfully captured the hearts and minds of our youth than has the efforts of the Christian home, the church, or even the traditional Christian school.” 

Shocked by the research result and data, we pray to God to give us wisdom and courage to face and solve the problem. The idea of Christian education ministry came to my mind and in the prayers during the following months, we get to know more and more clearly what our goal is, and what our mission is through this ministry. God’s word in 1 Peter 2:9 tells us what we should do – working with families and churches in the local community and providing solid “biblical worldview” Christ-centered classes and camps to our church families who don’t have the opportunity to home-school or send the kids to the private Christian schools, and opening up a window for them to experience Christian education and learn about different education options. We encourage parents to work together and strive to equip their kids with God’s word and spiritual weapons, raise up the next generation who have their self-identity firmly rooted in Christ, develop Godly characters, keep themselves in a close relationship with God, shine, and impact the community. On the other hand, character-building is an essential part of education that has been increasingly neglected in our current education system. The camps and classes organically integrate academic study and character building, which helps kids from our neighborhood by preparing them to face the challenging world.

We need your partnership and friendship in Christ, we need your companion in this journey following Christ, join us, and let’s walk this way together. “Come, let’s build…”(Neh. 2:17)