WELCOME FROM YOUR LEADERSHIP

CELEBRATING THE GENEROSITY OF OUR PARENTS, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Five years ago, Phoenix Christian Preparatory School was in serious organizational and financial trouble. After much prayer and many who responded, we were able to bring together a group of donors, some who knew PC and some who just believed in Christian education, to loan the school enough money to help sustain our campus for a few years going forward. That loan was due in 2020. “To God Be the Glory”, the school was able to secure conventional financing early in the year to pay back the “Christian Brothers” loan! Once again, I say thank you to those who stepped up at a critical time in our school’s history! You are part of those who will someday hear, “well done, thou good and faithful servant!”

Thankfully, the Giving Tree Live Auction and Gala happened right before the COVID shut-down. A large group of PC supporters gathered on campus to hear encouraging stories from parents, students and teachers and to raise a significant amount of money for the school. Many thanks to the sponsors, team of parents, students, staff, teachers, volunteers and donors. It was a beautiful evening and hugely successful, raising over $300,000!

To the Alumni: Your board has felt for many years that Phoenix Christian needed a liaison with a consistent voice and more personal contact with our great group of alumni. Even during these unprecedented challenges, we decided that now was the time to create the position of Director of Alumni Relations! You will be hearing more about this role in the weeks to come. Stay tuned for new communication and creative ways to connect with the school and to each other!

Finally, one of the obvious unknowns ahead is the changing landscape of the pandemic that our country is facing. Jeff Blake and his team have been working diligently to prepare the campus for the 2020-21 school year. They will certainly respond to the changing data as it becomes available. Safety for students, teachers and staff will be the priority for all!! Please pray daily for protection, Divine intervention and wisdom!

In HIS Service,

Monty Ortman Chairman of the Board

IT’S TIME TO RECONNECT & WELCOME STUDENTS BACK TO CAMPUS!

First, I want to share with you how proud we are of our students, faculty and staff for the incredible ways they connected during the spring COVID-19 shutdown. Our faculty and staff connected with students consistently and creatively. With a few donations, we managed to put devices in the hands of any student who needed one. We partnered with Phoenix Bible Church to provide food boxes for families who were impacted by the pandemic. Our middle and high school STEM students constructed over 16,000 face shields and delivered them to Mayo Clinic and a few other hospitals around the state. But even amid the “rich connecting,” many of our students (and families) struggled with distance learning. Adolescence is difficult and the increasing struggle with anxiety and depression is multiplied when students are home all-day, staring at a screen, trying to stay connected but feeling isolated.

This is one of the many reasons we are resolute in welcoming students back on-campus late August. We have extensive safety measures in place. For the first four weeks of school, students will attend morning or afternoon sessions; we will have about 10 students per classroom on average with an hour between sessions to clean and disinfect classrooms and other high traffic areas.

As we anticipate 2021 and this next decade, we want to share Vision 2030! First, we believe that each student is a hero in PC’s story, and we want to make sure we guide our students to reach their full Godbreathed potential. Second, we need to modernize! We are embarking on an aggressive pursuit to continue the modernization of our classrooms to meet the needs of our exploding STEM, Fine Arts, Humanities, and Spiritual and Leadership Formation initiatives. Thanks to the generosity of those who gave to the STEM initiative at the Auction, we have already renovated four STEM classrooms, purchased new curriculum for the elementary and new technology for our media center. Third, we MUST protect educational freedom. We have joined the movement within the state to safeguard Christian education and commit to making Christian education affordable to all students. Fourth, we are reaching new generations! Our preschool is expanding this year to include infant care with plans of educating over 100 infants through pre-Kinder children each day. Fifth, in addition to preschool, our growth plan includes increasing numbers school-wide by 250 students. Sixth, we value our living curriculum—our faculty and staff. We value Christian educators in our pursuit to provide the most competitive salaries. We will seek and retain the most gifted educators.

Will you join me in praying for His will to be done at Phoenix Christian and in the lives of the beautiful children who God entrusts to us?

In Him,