Puebla Christian School held its first classes in January 1967, as a joint effort of the Mexican Indian Mission and the Central American Mission in Puebla. Since that time, the Mexican Indian Mission has merged with UFM International (now Crossworld) and the Central American Mission eventually became part of Avant Ministries.
Those first classes were held in the homes of three families while a suitable building was sought. As in 1967, PCS serves the missionary community and the local church by providing an American-based K-12 education to train students spiritually, academically, socially and physically. PCS is governed by a local, self-perpetuating board.
Our Mission at Puebla Christian School
We foster a nurturing environment, providing an English-language education with a Biblical worldview, discipling students to reach God’s purpose in their lives.
We help build lifelong disciples of Christ, equipped to fulfill God’s purpose in their lives and the world.
TeachBeyond
PCS is proud to be part of TeachBeyond, a global mission organization that focuses on transformational educational services. TeachBeyond believes that education is an effective catalyst for bringing hope to individuals and positive transformation to communities. From the TeachBeyond website:
We go. TeachBeyond recruits and sends Christian educators, administrators, and workers to serve in many different schools and organizations across the globe.
We equip. TeachBeyond equips educators, schools, and organizations to serve our Lord in pursuit of our common vision for transformational education.
TeachBeyond has dozens of consultants and coaches who work with like-minded schools and organizations to provide continuing education to teachers, administrators, boards, and school owners.
We partner. TeachBeyond rarely works alone. We partner with groups, organizations, and institutions in pursuit of our mission.
In partnership with local organizations, TeachBeyond co-owns and supports a number of K-12 schools, English language learning programs, and projects.
PCS Philosophy Statement
A well-formulated and biblically based statement of philosophy is the touchstone from which a Christian school’s aims and objectives are derived. The ultimate objective of the Christian school is to glorify God, corporately and individually. In achieving this goal, one must consider the major objectives of the spiritual and moral development of the pupil, his personal and social growth and interaction, his academic achievement, and growing worth in service to others. The following statement expresses what Puebla Christian School believes with respect to education and its role as an educational enterprise.
GOD: God is revealed in the Scriptures to be the creator and sustainer of all things, the originator of all knowledge. He is wholly responsible for the existence of all living things. God is the source of all truth and has chosen to reveal Himself to man.
MAN: Man was created by God in His own image with the purpose of reflecting that image in this world. Man rebelled against God and is by nature a sinner without the ability to reflect the nature of God. In Christ Jesus that image has been renewed and man became capable of receiving all of God’s revealed truth, of communing with God, and communicating God to others.
REVELATION: God has revealed Himself to man through the Living Word, Jesus Christ. The Bible is the source book for true knowledge and wisdom, by which we may live. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to integrate the content of each subject in the curriculum with the truth revealed in the Scriptures. Jesus Christ is the perfect manifestation of God, and it is only through receiving Him as Savior that one can be personally related to God. He is the personification of the knowledge and wisdom of God and the perfect example to the believer for living a life pleasing to God.
PROCESS: What we believe about God, man, and how God has revealed Himself to man causes us to seek a truly Biblical correlation in every subject area. The Holy Spirit is God’s agent to teach and guide parents, teachers and pupils into all truth and bring each one into conformity to God’s revealed will. This is true reality – not material and temporal, but spiritual and eternal.
The goal of the policies and practices set forth in this handbook is to encourage our students towards academic, spiritual, and personal excellence; to help grow students who act with compassion, modesty, integrity, and obedience; and to help our students to be salt and light in a dark world.
