The Wegner Family
What do you love about Oakland Christian?
Our kids are known here. Their gifts are recognized and encouraged. They are not defined by their struggles, but given tools to help them succeed. At an upper level (middle and high school), where students have many teachers, and the teachers have many students, it is rare for students to be known individually as we've experienced at OCS with our kids. They are not only educated at a high level, but they are also trained up in the way they should go, being given opportunities and guidance based off the gifts they've been given by our Heavenly Father.
Why choose Oakland Christian?
Our family has had our kids in the public schools, homeschooled and now OCS. We chose OCS for our middle schoolers for multiple reasons. 1. We weren't happy with some of the things being taught in the public middle school. 2. While homeschooling worked for us when our kids were younger, there came a point where I couldn't give all of my kids what they needed - one needed extra support and a more social learning environment and one needed more of a challenge. OCS has provided these things for my kids. 3. We knew OCS was a great school from friends who had kids attending. 4. We didn't want to send them to just any private school in lieu of the public schools, we wanted it to be a truly Christ-centered school. When we did our research, OCS matched best with what we were looking for biblically.
How has your child's faith grown at Oakland Christian?
Having Bible class every day and Chapel every week has helped them know and understand the word of God that much more. And really, their teachers do a great job of bringing a biblical perspective into more than just bible class so that has been neat to see, for example, how they read a novel, and then are challenged to look at it from a biblical perspective. They've also grown in worship. As teachers recognized their gifts when it comes to vocal music, they've been encouraged and challenged in ways that have allowed them to see what using their gifts for God's glory looks like and that has lit a fire in them to continue using their voices for the Lord even more. I will also mention that my daughter did not want to come to OCS because she had good friends at her homeschool hybrid. She was afraid there was no way she could make as good of friends again. While in prayer, she said that God told her to go to OCS so she obediently went in with an open heart. Through that, she has been able to see God's faithfulness and has learned she can trust His voice and His leading in her life... I'm happy to report she has made many sweet friends at OCS this year.
Describe Oakland Christian in one word.
A blessing.
Why consider enrolling at Oakland Christian School?
Logistically and financially, sending our kids to OCS may be more difficult than sending our kids down the street to the public school. But the spiritual impact, the way the teachers know and encourage their students, the way the school does all they can to guide each child individually, and the way they point their students to Christ is enough to outweigh those things. In addition to these things, my kids carry a lighter emotional load home with them than when at public school, they don't have to sift through unbiblical/ untrue information, and we don't have to worry about authority figures that might encourage unbiblical worldviews in their young minds, but instead know they are surrounded by adults who love the Lord and encourage them in their faith. The families and staff have been so welcoming to all of us. It is a safe place for my kids to grow spiritually, educationally, and emotionally and I would make the same choice again if I had it to do over.
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