Home:
The philosophy of Lighthouse Christian School emphasizes the inter-relationship of three institutions (the home, the church, and the school) working together for the development of the child. At Lighthouse Christian School, it is our firm conviction that proper training first begins in the home. The home was the first institution God set on earth, and it is here that the child first learns set patterns of behavior. Each child learns to respond to discipline and authority as he reacts to the controls or guidelines of the mother and father. There he also learns how to respond to other individuals, either by playing with other children in his family or those who live nearby. So it is in the home that the child learns a value system of right or wrong. When a child is taught proper discipline and respect in the early years at home, he is then ready to be formally educated and to develop the skills necessary to face life successfully.

School:
Third, It is our conviction that a school is an institution set up by man for ht education and training of our children. A school should provide both an environment and a curriculum conducive to effective learning. We believe that, as a Christian school, it is our responsibility to build Christian character in our students. We believe that children should be trained to do right because it is right to do right, and not to do so just for rewards. We believe that there is a natural need for well-defined boundaries governing their behavior. The teacher in the classroom is the authority and must be upheld and respected by the students and their parents. We expect our students to be honest and exercise personal initiative in class work and homework. Every student must show respect and must obey in attitude and action certain definite rules which are set forth in this handbook. Therefore, in summary, our philosophy may be stated as follows:

• There is final, absolute truth which as a unit centers in the Creator God.
• This truth is revealed in the Bible, and is personified in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God.
• Christian education is a Christ-centered, biblically integrated process of developing spiritually, mentally, physically, and intellectually mature young people.
• The ultimate aim of life is not adjustment to society, but conformity to Christ.
• This objective is achieved by a disciplined life of sacrificial service, patterned after Him who pleased not Himself (Matthew 20:28)

Church:
Second, It is our conviction that God has also instituted His Church as the organism directly responsible for the winning of the unsaved to Christ and the exhorting and training of the saved. This includes the teaching of biblical principles of living as found in the Holy Scriptures. We believe that the Bible describes the local church as a body of born-again believers led by a pastor under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We therefore affirm that Christian children must be taught respect for God, His Word, and the biblical principles of His Word, and that children should live by these principles. In brief, a few examples of biblical principles we teach are as follows:
1) God has always existed, will always exist, and has all knowledge and truth (Genesis 1).
2) God created the heavens and the earth and all the plants and animals that live upon the earth, each reproducing after its own kind (Genesis 1)
3) God created man in His own image. Man, through disobedience, sinned against God, and chose to please himself rather than His Creator (Genesis 3)
4) All men are sinners by nature. We naturally are selfish and therefore commit sins against God, others, and ourselves (Romans 3:23, Isaiah 53:6).
In order to defeat sin and live by Biblical principles, each person needs a personal relationship with God. This is obtained by first realizing that one is a sinner, second, by seeing Jesus Christ as the perfect, sinless Son of God Who died on the cross to pay for the individual's sins; and then by having faith in that payment, and in repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ, calling upon the Lord Jesus to come into his heart and save him. (Romans 10:9, 10, 13).
5) A Christian should live at peace with his fellow man and love his neighbor as himself (Leviticus 19:18, Romans 12:18).
6) A child should honor his father and mother (Exodus 20:12)
We encourage our families to faithfully attend church services and functions in order for us together to achieve the spiritual goals which we desire our children to reach.

Academic Affiliations:
Lighthouse Christian School is a member of the Tennessee Association of Christian Schools (TACS) and the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) and approved through the Tennessee Department of Education through their agency approval program developed with the Tennessee Association of Christian Schools. LCS is a category (2) agency approved school.