Classical Christian Education?

- The Trivium (three-modes) of Learning

- The Great Books, Classic Literature

- Fine Art and Music

- Western Civilization, Plato to America

- America's Founding and Our Christian Roots

- The Virtues of a Constitutional Republic

- Math Your Way (Singapore, Saxon, Math-U-See...)

- Careful and Critical Thinking

- Grammar, Logic & Rhetoric

- Debate and Forensics

More videos about Classical Christian Education.

Who, What, When, Where?

In 2024 a group of parents, grandparents, and Christian educators who want the best for their children and grandchildren joined forces to establish the "Living Waters Classical Christian Academy", an alliance of homeschool families in Delta County, Michigan.

The Living Waters Academy (LWA) is not a "school", but rather a synchronized homeschool support ministry designed to make homeschooling a breeze. We make it easy for you to provide your student with a rigorous classical education in a Christian friendly environment with a minimal amount of effort. To this end, our faith based ministry will help parents withdraw their children from public school, select a curriculum, develop lesson plans, and offer tutoring and student enrichment opportunities weekdays from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM along with mentoring in traditional Judeo-Christian values. Classes begin September 2, 2025 at 1022 Wisconsin Avenue, in Gladstone, MI where we rent space from the Community of Christ Church. Living Waters Academy is currently taking enrollments into our part-time student enrichment program and our full-time student development ministry for children in grades 3-8 for the 2025 school year. Call for information today!

How?

Living Waters Academy follows a schedule that is very similar to a traditional public school, but that is where the similarities end. By synchronizing lesson plans across various homeschool families, LWA can offer tutoring and mentoring to those families at a fraction of the cost of hiring a private tutor. LWA offers administrative assistance, tutoring, and mentoring for homeschool families who purchase the recommended homeschool curriculum. Tutoring methods are based on the classical trivium model of education as prescribed in a now famous essay by Dorothy Sayers titled, "The Lost Tools of Learning". This combination of method and material has been successfully tested by a myriad of schools that belong to the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS). Their record of success is stellar and undeniable and has been independently confirmed in a study conducted by the University of Notre Dame which compares 6 different methods of K-12 education. You can examine the results of the "Good Soil Study" on the ACCS website. Living Waters Academy became a member of the ACCS early in 2024 and we intend to follow in the footsteps of those trail blazers who have gone before us.

Why?

The Bible informs parents to raise up their children in the way they should go... and to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Because of this charge, our goal at LWA is to help you impart knowledge with values, understanding with humility, and wisdom guided by virtue so that your student will learn to seek, find, and proclaim truth and order in all areas of academic study, and recognize what is true, good, and beautiful in all areas of life. Our intention is to teach students to teach themselves - to give them the ability to learn and discern - and to express themselves with confidence and grace. We are striving to engage students in a quality Christ-centered education that equips them to reach their unique potential and produce the next generation of well-rounded servant leaders.