History

Heritage Christian School is a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade inter-denominational Christian school founded by a small group of families who deeply desired Christian education for their children. The doors opened in the fall of 1992 with thirty-seven students in a small building, formerly a day care, on First Avenue in Iowa City. As demand grew for the Christ-centered education offered, the program expanded from K-6 to K-8 in 1994. In need of additional space, God provided an ally for the organization in Grace Community Church in North Liberty, IA. The new relationship laid the ground work for the construction of a wing attached to the existing church facility from which the school operated for fifteen years. During that time, God opened the door for the school’s leadership to purchase 24 acres embedded in a rapidly growing community 2 miles from Grace with the intention of building a facility in the near future. While still tenants at Grace, demand for additional school space increased and, in 2004, an annex building was constructed providing an additional classroom and a library. Pre-kindergarten was added in 2005 to meet increasing need for this program in the community and in 2006, the leadership of the school began to aggressively pursue the funding needed to construct its 25,000 square foot,$3.6 million building plans. God, as in so many times before, proved Himself faithful providing the school with $2.3 million in cash by the time the 3 year pursuit was finished.

Today, as Heritage serves over 110 families and 176 students, Pre-k- 8^th grade, in the North Liberty, Coralville, and Iowa City area, the school’s impact is spreading even beyond these boundaries. Twenty-five full and part-time faculty and staff, who have a passion for Christ, children, and the school, strive to fulfill the mission for which we exist. Our students graduate and move into the local high schools where they excel. Nearly every year in the public high schools, Heritage alumni are awarded the academic honors of Valedictorians, Salutatorians, and/or National Merit Scholars. Heritage students in area high schools are readily recognized as well-behaved, respectful, hardworking, and very well prepared for the next segment of their academic journey.

With the new facility only occupying a portion of the land purchased, the leadership of Heritage Christian School looks strategically at the remaining 15 acres, laying plans to widen the positive influence that Heritage makes in this community.

Statement of Faith

To show our continuity with Christians throughout the centuries, we affirm the Biblical Christian faith as summarized in the Apostles' Creed. The main points of this faith are included in the following statement of our faith:

• We believe that the 66 books of the Bible, in their original manuscripts, are the inspired Word of God. While the central purpose of the Bible is to bring us to salvation, all that the Bible teaches is inherently true, including matters of science and history.
• We believe that God is infinite and personal, that He created the world out of nothing, and that He continues to rule over the affairs of men and nations.
• We believe that God is a Trinity, three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in one Being, equal in power and glory, yet different in role and function.
• We believe that Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is fully God and fully man, has two natures in one person, and is like us in a all ways except without sin.
• We believe that every human being is created in the image of God and that each human life should be protected and treasured from conception to the grave. But sadly, all of mankind, the whole of each person, and every sphere of life was disturbed by Adam and Eve's revolt against God.
• We believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross, was buried, rose from the grave, and ascended to the right hand of God, in order to fully pay for all our sins and to inaugurate His saving reign. Christ's salvation and reign begin to restore us from the effects of the Fall.
• We believe that we are saved and justified by personal faith in Jesus Christ when God draws us to Himself by His Word and Spirit; true saving faith leads to a life of service and gratitude to God as salt and light in the world.
• We believe that Jesus Christ will come again, personally and visibly, at the end of history, when the dead will be bodily resurrected; believers to everlasting joy with the Lord; unbelievers to everlasting sorrow.
• We believe that all truth, in whatever subject, is God's Truth, received through general revelation, even among unbelievers; nevertheless, unbelief and the secular worldviews have seriously distorted much learning, so that believers must evaluate all we learn in light of Scripture.