A Word About Faith

The families at Harvest Community School represent different churches and different denominations from all across the city of Jacksonville. At Harvest we come together to train our children, from preschool to high school, in the basic precepts of the Word of God. Young children are taught Biblical character traits such as kindness and self-control. Upper School students study the Bible more formally through such curriculum as Survey of the Old Testament.

We do not ask our families to belong to a particular church or denomination, however, we do ask that our parents and children be Christian, having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and that the family regularly attend and be actively involved in a local church.

Our Statement of Faith, which all families must sign follows.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

• God has given to parents the mandate of His Divine Word to teach, instruct, and train their children in the way they should go; and it is upon this foundation that we base our organization.
• God exists eternally in three Persons as Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and these three are one God, and there is no other true God.
• God is absolute and sole Creator of the universe, and creation was by divine act, not through the evolutionary process.
• Jesus Christ is God the Son, and is both God and Man. He was born of a virgin, lived a perfect, sinless life, was crucified and died as penalty for our sins, raised bodily from the dead on the third day, appeared to His disciples and as many as 500 at one time, ascended to the Father’s right hand, and is personally, bodily, visibly coming again to earth.
• The Holy Spirit is a person, is God and possesses all the divine attributes; He indwells all believers at the moment of their salvation, and fills them in response to confession of sin and being fully yielded to Him.
• Man is a sinner and totally depraved, void of any righteousness, without God; and the whole human race has fallen into the sin of Adam, bringing personally upon each one physical, spiritual and eternal death, unless one is saved.
• Jesus Christ provides the only way to salvation through His substitute death and the shed blood on the cross, and salvation is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church membership, or any of man’s efforts, and is of pure grace.

"How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers." Psalm 1:1-3