PRAYER, DEVOTIONS AND BIBLE CURRICULUM
All K-12 Westpark students begin their school day with 10 minutes of devotions and prayer led by their homeroom teachers. Our teachers provide opportunities for students to pray for one another, to listen to God on behalf of other people to encourage them, and to pray for healing.
Westpark’s bible curriculum incorporates and reflects the developmental stage that the students are in. In other words, what we learn about the Bible is as important as when we learn it.
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At this early age children are naturally learning about their identity, and who they are in the world. We teach them who God has made them to be, and by looking at one of the 10 through lines each month, they discover that God has designed them to be beauty creators, justice seekers, and community builders among other things!
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Grades 1-6 students attend bible class twice weekly where they learn who God is and study the story of Jesus’ life, miracles, ministry, death and resurrection.
Grade 7 students are looking at the Bible as a whole, its different genres and organization, while also practicing spiritual disciplines such as Lectio Divina, through which they learn how to receive something for themselves from the text.
Grade 8 students begin to ask, ‘What does the bible have to say to me?’ and ‘what does this mean for me?’, revisiting the identity piece that they began with in Kindergarten
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Our Senior Years bible classes are designed to feel like bible college courses, and students begin by studying the metanarrative and the New Testament, then moving into more nuanced conversations. Students are shown how to look at the bible through pragmatic, academic and charismatic lenses, and encouraged to ask themselves what they know, what that means for them, and how that makes them feel. The capstone to our K-12 curriculum is a Grade 12 seminar class called “Topics in Christianity” in which students get to form and pose their big questions, and have PAC pastoral staff join them for regular discussions and teaching.