Thank you

for the difference you are making in the lives of our students. Many of them, whether through direct tuition assistance, or indirectly through below cost family tuition rates, are able to be at HDCH thanks to your generosity. All of them, thanks to gifts to the CARE Campaign, can enjoy an environment that is well maintained, more accessible, and conducive to excellent Christian learning.

We are so grateful for your commitment to the Kingdom mission and vision that is being worked out at HDCH.

Our Mission – to cultivate character through learning for lives of service to God.

Our Vision – to see all HDCH students be a faithful presence in the communities that they serve.

The mission and vision provide the focus for how we understand and execute our core purpose at HDCH: Christ-centred learning.

Connecting students to the world beyond the classroom, with a Kingdom perspective, means that students, through what they learn and do in the classroom, are participants in God’s redemptive work in our communities and culture. At HDCH we refer to this as taking our learning “further out”, whether physically, virtually or metaphorically. Projects and class work that connect authentically to the needs and realities of our world drive the learning deeper for students: for them, “further out” also means “deeper in” to their learning because it has a Kingdom purpose beyond grades, credits and credentials.

This makes a clear connection between the way that we do learning in the classroom and our mission (“...lives of service to God”) and vision ( “...to be a faithful presence in the communities that they serve”). So, how we teach (the way in which we conceive of and deliver learning at HDCH) is as important as what we teach (the course content) and where we teach (the physical, social, and spiritual context of learning, the campus culture and climate.)

These are some of the things that your generosity helps make possible. Thank you for being part of the Kingdom work at HDCH!

Duncan Todd, Principal principal@hdch.org, 905-648-6655 x3

If you have questions or thoughts to share about HDCH, please call or come and talk with me. I’d love to connect with you!