All Saints Parochial School
A Ministry of All Saints Anglican Church, Mills River, North Carolina
Vision
In order to fulfill our mission to assist parents in the formation of their children as well-educated disciples of Christ, we see two ways to accomplish this.
The first is to ensure access to education in this place is available to everyone in our community by being affordable. We accomplish this with a unique combination of state scholarships, private funding, and church resources.
Secondly, we will retain professsional educators and staff members, who are fully equipped to educate children. This we will accomplish by providing competitive salary and benefit packages, recognizing the scriptural principal
that the “labourer is worthy of his hire (Luke 10:7)”.
About All Saints
Anglican Church
All Saints Church has been serving the people of western North Carolina by offering prayers for the salvation and well-being of our community. The church maintains strong ties in the area, partnering with local Christian ministry organizations, such as rescue missions, food banks, pregnancy support services, and other para-church groups, assisting those with many needs in Henderson, Buncombe, and Transylvania Counties. After nearly forty-five years of prayer and study, we want to do more. We see there is still a need in our area for in-person, focused education dedicated to something more than landing a job later in life. We are starting this school that is both classical and parochial here in Mills River so that we can form students to be virtuous and wise and help families be spiritually healthy and whole.
Education from the
Heart of the Church
The daily cycle of prayer, scripture, and song, and the seasonal rhythms of the Christian year, tune children’s hearts to hear God’s voice and writes their lives into God’s great story of redemption. Reading good literature, studying history, learning to observe the order and beauty of the created world through mathematics and science anchors students in the great tradition.
Children are persons, created in God’s image, dignified and precious. Authentic teaching and learning is personal and relational. This begins with being welcomed each day by teachers, clergy, and staff and informs everything we do from designing classroom instruction to nurturing school culture.
Students and their families are connected to devoted teachers, clergy, staff, and to a network of volunteers and mentors from the parish family. We have high expectations for student learning and behavior, but the nurturing support of these devoted others ensures that children grow in the habits of heart, mind, body, and soul that will enable them to meet those standards.
