Imagine Tomorrow

THE CAMPAIGN FOR MOUNT PARAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

“To Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.”

EPHESIANS 3:20

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give

you hope and a future.”

JEREMIAH 29:11

Imagine... ...the most technologically advanced venue for the arts of any school in the region.

A leading athletic program with facilities to match. A Christ-centered classroom environment where collaboration and a spirit of discovery thrive. All missional programs built on a commitment to impacting the world for Christ.

More than 40 years ago, a few dared to imagine how students could thrive on a campus which bears the name of Christ. From its inception in 1976, Mount Paran Christian School has grown to 1,100 students, pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Today, MPCS occupies 68 acres of a beautiful university-like campus framed by a six-acre lake and historic Kennesaw Mountain.

With God’s provision, MPCS has truly become a place where faith and intellect grow as one. A new generation of servantleaders is emerging through the daily immersion of academic, arts, athletic, and spiritual experiences which challenge young minds and nurture God-given gifts. Students are learning how to impact their community for Christ.

Though the MPCS culture has evolved into an energetic, unified community of families who are striving toward our mission, God is not finished with us yet. With expanded and refined programs in all areas, there is more work to be accomplished for the futures of our students and beyond. We know He is able to accomplish “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.�

“The heart of man

plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.”

PROVERBS 16:9

Tomorrow Plans for

Academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment requires facilities where we can instill these values and live out what God has called us to do.

Imagine Tomorrow Capital Campaign We are on the homestretch of a capital campaign where the

OUR PROGRESS

purpose has been to enhance arts, athletic, and academic programs, uncompromising in their quality and unapologetically Christian in their mission. God has blessed our school more

$31.7M Total Goal Phase Three

$27.4M

Total Raised (as of 4/2019)

$19.7M Phase Two Complete

$16.5M Phase One Complete

than we can dream or imagine. New opportunities await and we pray you will join us to finish strong in this journey.

In 2007, you imagined...

Phase One: Murray Arts Center $16.5 million purchase of the Murray Arts Center facility dedicated to the arts and creative programs on campus.

In 2015, you imagined...

Phase Two: Catherine Steele Sewell Stadium $3.2 million construction of the Catherine Steele Sewell Stadium and William A. Cooper Field to accommodate growing athletic and school-wide events.

In 2019, we invite you to imagine... 

Phase Three: High School Expansion

$12 million expansion of our high school facility is needed to accommodate tremendous growth and enhanced programs. ($7.7M raised as of 4/2019)

“For by Him all things were

created, both in

the heavens and on earth.”

COLOSSIANS 1:16

Excellence Academic

High School Expansion

Imagine... technologically-enhanced environments for expanded course offerings in every academic discipline to accommodate the tremendous growth of our student-body. Doubling the size of the current high school building will open new opportunities for success.

Engineering and design labs. Dedicated ideation zones. Maker space. Arts studios.

Chat and share rooms. Digital theatre.

Test kitchen. Fabrication labs. Expanded commons and classrooms. All are needed to nurture insatiable curiosity and create lifelong learners. . These environments prepare knowledgeable and poised students to thrive in college, an ever-changing economy, and society.

With expanded AP offerings and Project Lead The Way® (PLTW), innovative electives and co-curricular opportunities are enhancing the academic experience.

Quality teachers are serving diverse student needs. International study, entrepreneurial and internship opportunities, missions, and spiritual formation experiences abound. All of these work together to fulfill our call to “honor God, love others, and walk in Truth.”

Murray Innovation Center

What is innovation?

MPCS is emphatically committed to innovative

While many define innovation simply as a

teaching and learning innovation across

new idea or as something new — at MPCS,

the continuum of the school’s liberal arts

innovation is examined, explored, and

curriculum. Our goal is to prepare MPCS

pursued as the practice of finding solutions

graduates to enter their new world with

to the problems faced in our world. It is

confidence; equipped to meet the technological

a means of thinking from which ideas are

and ethical challenges of the 21st century. If

vetted, challenges are confronted, dreams are

the point of innovation is to make better or to

made, and hopes are birthed. As believers,

improve upon, we seek to think differently, to

we worship the master Innovator, who set all

act differently, and to learn in such a manner as

things in motion by His sovereign will.

to make all of life better, for the glory of God.

Why Expand?

and a shifting curricular emphasis urgently

Since MPCS moved to its current location 16

requires a state-of-the-art innovation center

years ago, the high school has experienced

addition, providing needed facilities for

tremendous growth in enrollment (138 in

bright, committed, and God-honoring

2003, 450 in 2019) all while housed primarily

students. This center will provide the

in Dozier Hall, which was designed to

necessary environment to academically

accommodate just 250 students. The space

prepare our young servant-leaders.

demands created by increased enrollment

A high school addition will provide: • Overdue space for STEAM classes • Spaces to expand engineering and PLTW® courses • Art and graphic design studios • Maker space labs and materials • Robotics construction area and fabrication lab • Ideation zones and concepts gallery • Test kitchen • Digital theatre environments • Student collaboration areas including chat and share rooms • Dedicated space for our Directed Studies program, which serves students with learning challenges, helping them develop comprehensive strategies and problem-solving skills • Cutting-edge, flexible space and equipment to catalyze and support creative, project-based intellectual inquiry and interdisciplinary instruction

Early Interior Concept

*Note: F ormal architectural design is currently being developed. Images are conceptual only and subject to change.

Vision

for the Future

In summer of 2020, MPCS plans to break ground on the approximately 24,000 square foot Murray Innovation Center addition with renovations to the current high school facility.

Annual Fund

Danish Kurani, an architect specializing in innovative learning

In the MPCS commitment

spaces, is working with our students and teaching faculty

to “provide academic

on the interior and exterior design of the building. Kurani's

excellence in a Christ-

community-building approach to design has already

centered environment,”

included 400 voices heard, 20 hours of interactive workshops,

Annual Fund is critical in

3500 survey responses, 90 ideas sketched by students

supporting the everyday

and teachers, 43 days of research and more. In addition,

cost of operating the school

through a careful request for proposal (RFP) process, Choate

which tuition does not fully

Construction has been selected as the general contractor.

cover. In ten years, our Annual Fund has grown from

Goal: $12 Million

$360,000 and 52% parent

•$ 11 million – Total cost (construction, renovation, furnishings)

participation to $585,000 and 90% parent participation, positioning us to successfully seek support from outside

• $1 million – Allotted for endowment to ensure continued enhancements and maintenance

foundations. The Annual

Progress:

Fund should continue to

• Approximately $7.7M has been raised as of spring 2019

be your first giving priority

• The lead gift, jump-starting phase three, came from the

supporting the fundamentals

Stuart and Eulene Murray Family Foundation, naming the

of an MPCS education.

Murray Innovation Center • Remaining funds will come from a combination of foundations and families of the MPCS community

“Every man shall give as he is able, according to the

blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.”

DEUTERONOMY 16:17

Gift Amount

Number of Gifts Needed

In order to reach the goal

Total in Range

Cumulative

$2,000,000

$2,000,000

$2,000,000

$1,500,000

$3,500,000

$1,500,000

Raised So Far

of $12M, MPCS is pursuing foundation grants and

$1,500,000

1 1

$1,000,000

1

$1,000,000

$4,500,000

$0

$500,000

2 3

$1,500,000

$6,000,000

$500,000

$250,000

3 8

$2,000,000

$8,000,000

$1,250,000

$100,000

3 15

$1,500,000

$9,500,000

$1,200,000

needed and appreciated,

$50,000

5 17

$850,000

$10,350,000

$600,000

goal requires major gifts.

$25,000

10 20

$500,000

$10,850,000

$250,000

$15,000

16 25

$375,000

$11,225,000

$135,000

$10,000

18 30

$300,000

$11,525,000

$120,000

$6,000

22 35

$210,000

$11,735,000

$78,000

$3,000

27 40

$120,000

$11,855,000

$39,000

Up to $3,000

many

$145,000

$12,000,000

$7,733,000

$2,000,000

corporate gifts. We are also appealing to families and friends in our MPCS community, asking them to prayerfully consider making a personal gift commitment over three years. While gifts of varying amounts are achieving an audacious Major donors to the campaign may also have the opportunity to name spaces in the new facility or in an existing facility.

Phase Three: Murray Innovation Center

Together, we imagine tomorrow

Called according to His purpose Young people grow into Christ-following

adults with extraordinary intentionality. When

acquisition of knowledge and biblical principles are intertwined in every aspect of a child’s

development, young learners are grounded, confident, and mature Christian adults who understand joy-filled purpose and calling.

That is why MPCS exists and why an MPCS

education is so profoundly meaningful – for college, life, and eternity.

As we now turn our focus to the $12 million high school expansion and the completion

of the overall campaign goal of $31.7 million,

our prayer continues to be that we are faithful stewards of the Lords' blessings to forever benefit the students of MPCS.

OUR MISSION Providing academic

excellence in a Christ-centered environment, Mount Paran

Christian School unites with

home and church to prepare

servant-leaders to honor God, love others, and walk in Truth.

mtparanschool.com/imagine

1275 Stanley Road Kennesaw, GA 30152 770.578.0182, extension 2049 www.mtparanschool.com/imagine