Purpose of Emmaus
Emmaus Christian School Canberra was established in 1997 and has since sustained a focus on building strong community through engaging partnerships between home and school.
By providing a Christian education, the school enters into partnerships with parents who desire their children to be equipped with a biblical worldview - a set of presuppositions that views the world through Biblical truths (Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 10:5).
Being a gospel-shaped community, Christian education at Emmaus is shown through the delivery of a Christ-centred curriculum and a teaching and learning program delivered by staff who submit all of life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Our School Motto is Growing Together in Faith, Love and Wisdom
Emmaus is a member of the Association of Independent Schools ACT and Christian Education National.
For our Statement of Faith please see below:
The Bible was written by people, inspired by God and has ever since been protected by God. It is our highest authority in all matters of faith and practice and illumines all learning and every dimension of human life.
The local and global networks of people who follow Christ in Christian groups and denominations comprise the Church: a new humanity, the family of God and Christ's body on earth. Through the Church we are shepherded towards ongoing transformation into Christ's likeness.
Christ commissioned His followers to spread the news of God's plan to everyone, teaching them how to find and follow Him. He commands us to love God with all our heart, mind and strength, and to love others through service, reconciliation, and the provision of liberty to all who are oppressed and broken-hearted, until Jesus comes again.
Along with the Church, families are a precious gift to the world, as the primary community in which parents are to teach their children how to love, serve, worship and grow in character.
Families are formed and sustained through the gift of marriage, an institution that is to be honoured, whether or not we are called into it ourselves. The Bible's teaching, as upheld throughout the history of the Christian Church, is that marriage is the relationship between one man and one woman, entered into for life to the exclusion of all others, and is the proper context within which God's good gift of sexuality is to be enjoyed.
A Christian is someone who responds to God's grace by being 'born again' into a new life of trust and obedience to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. This journey is not entered into alone, but in community with other believers through shared worship, fellowship, and service in the Church.