Church Affiliates
Equip your church members
Help your members develop a satisfying biblical response to cultural pressure points.
Christians across the nation are increasingly finding themselves assaulted with an unprecedented array of ideological and cultural challenges and they’re looking to their pastors and church leaders for guidance. The Church Affiliate Program offers churches an opportunity to offer and facilitate the Colson Fellows Program in and through their churches, led by trained members of their staff or congregation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Interested in the Church Affiliate Program?
If you have questions, we’re here to help. Schedule a conversation with S. Michael Craven, Director of the Colson Fellows Program. We exist to serve the Church; we look forward to talking with you!
Academic Affiliates
Excellence in Worldview Formation
A hallmark of Christian school education has been the promise to help students “develop a Christian worldview.” Yet almost all school leaders admit their worldview education is among the weakest programs in their curriculum.
A Christian education leader lamented, “We’ve been teaching Christian worldview from day one. Not only are we not doing it well, we are finally realizing we have been setting up our kids for failure. They are grossly unprepared to live a life of faithfulness to Christ in today’s world.”
Equipped to Inspire Others
The Colson Fellows Academic program is designed to provide worldview training and mentoring to equip K-12 Christian School leaders and faculty. Faculty dive into a curriculum of the best contemporary worldview and cultural engagement speakers and writers, including Os Guinness, Chuck Colson, John Lennox, Thaddeus Williams, John Stonestreet, and Alisa Childers. They participate in regular webinars with many of these same authors to interact with their latest thinking about the Church and culture. Daily Bible study and cultural analysis provide an ongoing reinforcement of Christian worldview thinking and evaluation. Substantive interaction among the Fellows also takes place on regular basis to help engage the issues.
Fellows develop their own mission and vision statement as well as a three-year plan for implementing what they learn in their school or community. As they are transformed, they help transform the people, school and community around them.
Some of the schools utilizing the Colson Fellows Academic Affiliate program include Hickory Grove Christian School (Charlotte, North Carolina), North Raleigh Christian Academy (Raleigh, North Carolina), Prestonwood Christian Academy (Plano, Texas), Hillcrest Lutheran Academy (Fergus Falls, Minnesota), Little Rock Christian Academy (Little Rock, Arkansas), and Grapevine Faith Christian Academy (Grapevine, Texas).
Frequently Asked Questions
Spotlight on Hickory Grove Christian School
Jimmie Quesinberry
Head of School
Timisha Brynildsen
First Grade Teacher
Endorsements
Dr. Seth Cohen
President, Jupiter Christian School, Jupiter, FL
“Christian school teachers with a robust, working Christian worldview are equipped to inspire their students to lead with their lives because they themselves have been inspired by God’s compelling vision for our world.”
Dr. Shayne Grove
Middle and Upper School Principal, The First Academy, Orlando, FL
“Serving as the Assistant Head of School in an independent Christian Academy, it is vital that I can effectively navigate today’s culture and re-shape it in a way that is pleasing to God. I’m excited to partner with other Colson Fellows to strengthen my own biblical knowledge and continue to develop a solid Christian worldview to assist me in working with future Christian leaders. “
Billy Hutchinson
Dean of Academics, AP Capstone, AP Psychology, Hickory Grove Christian School, NC
“The Colson Fellows program was a great way to connect with other individuals who are interested in reading great books, growing in Christ, dialoguing about important Gospel-related matters, and seeking to be agents of change in the culture. The program is not for anyone who does not like to be challenged; but the rewards are worth the challenge. I would recommend the CF program to anyone who has interest in worldview thinking and how to respond to the challenges believers face “in this cultural moment” in a way that engages others with both the truths of Scripture and the grace, mercy and love found in Christ. I look forward to how God will use my participation in this program.”
Dr. Shannon Bomar
Former Director for Professional Development, ACSI
“Often in Christian education we talk about worldview as a lens through which we see God’s creation and the world around us, and while it most certainly is that, it is so much more. A robust understanding of worldview is a deepened understanding of the whole story of Scripture and who I am as God’s created and called. . . The Colson Fellows program helped me ground and deepen this understanding and my purpose. Worldview is so much more than my perspective on Creation or knowing which Scripture supports a particular question or topic. It is who I am and how I live – in this culture and in this moment – I was created to be here.”
Participating Schools
