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Providing Christ centered education for children (3 years to 8th grade) from Plymouth and the surrounding area.



Be it known to all who enter this site that Christ
is the reason for this school.
He is the unseen but ever-present teacher in its classes.
He is the model of its faculty and the inspiration of its students.

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WHAT MAKES ST. JOHN SCHOOL DIFFERENT FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

St. John Lutheran School uses the absolute truth of Holy Scripture as the foundation for all academics  and activities. God’s Word, the Bible, is taught and applied every day as Christian principles and moral values  are modeled, taught and encouraged.  Lutheran  education teaches students to be good stewards of God’s created world, to value life as given by God, and that eternal life in heaven is what awaits as God’s free gift for all believers.

St. John Lutheran School is Christ's ministry and mission to the:

  • Individual  Studying scripture on a daily basis helps the student form a personal relationship with our Savior. The students experience God's love, forgiveness and grace, which allow them to share those experiences with their peers
  • Family Christian education reinforces what is taught in a Christian home. Three key institutions that shape a child are the home, the church and the school. Children are served best when all three institutions point them in the same direction.
  • Church Christians are to edify other Christians. Christ instructed His disciples to "teach them to observe all things." This instruction in Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions can be most effectively done in a full-time Lutheran school.
CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW  A secular worldview encourages man to look inward to man for answers to life’s challenges.  Secular psychology claims that each person deep down inside is basically good.
A Christian worldview, taught by St John Lutheran School,  believes that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and that a Christian looks outward to God for the answers to life’s challenges.

 

Colossians 2: 6-8  “Just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.  See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.”

“For this reason children must be taught the doctrine of God. But this is the doctrine of, God, which you must teach your children, namely, to know our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep over fresh in their remembrance how he has suffered for our sakes, what he has done.” – Martin Luther

 

"I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth.  I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount.  Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt "  – Martin Luther (1483-1546)

 

HISTORY

St. John Lutheran Church established its Christian Day School in the fall of 1858 to provide the children of the Congregation and other children of the community with a Christ-centered education.  The school endeavors to aid parents in following the Biblical command to bring up their children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4).  We have grown from one teacher in one classroom to our present size of eleven classrooms, including a preschool and Extended Care Facility. The members of St. John financially and prayerfully support the school as a ministry to God's people and  as a mission outreach to the community (Matt. 28: 19-20).

St. John Lutheran School is a coeducational school dedicated to quality education.  It presents a Christ-centered educational alternative for residents of Plymouth and the surrounding communities.  It is distinctively a Christian school encouraging each student to grow and mature in mind, body, and spirit.  Within this environment, students are able to receive the personal attention that so greatly enhances academic life at every level.  While the majority of our students are of Lutheran background, we do welcome students of different faith traditions.

THE LUTHERAN SCHOOL SYSTEM St. John Lutheran School is one of a system of more than 2,000 schools operated by the congregations of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in the United States and Canada.  These schools are staffed with over 9,000 teachers, most of whom were trained in the Concordia University System operated by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

St. John Lutheran Church and School is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, South WI District.

ADMINISTRATION St. John Lutheran School is an integrated ministry of St. John Lutheran Church.  It is under the ultimate control and supervision of the congregation.  The School Board, comprised of St John members,  is responsible for the operation of the school and its policies.  The principal is responsible for carrying out the policies of the School Board and the Congregation.  The pastors of St. John are directly involved with the families and operation the school and are ex-officio members of the School Board and the Faculty. 

WHAT LUTHERANS BELIEVE AND TEACH

GOD         WE BELIEVE and teach that there is One True God who has revealed Himself through the Holy Bible as Triune, one God in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  This God created all things, visible and invisible, and He continues to sustain them.

THE BIBLE        WE BELIEVE and teach that the Holy Scriptures, as contained in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, are the only inerrant and inspired Word of God.  They are without error not only in things spiritual and moral, but also in matters historical, geographical, and scientific.  These Scriptures are to be our guide in all matters of faith and life.

CREATION         WE BELIEVE and teach that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, by His Word, out of nothing, in six days.  We believe this doctrine of creation to be foundational to other doctrines of Scripture including the atoning work of Christ.

SIN           WE BELIEVE and teach that God created the world perfect and that sin and death came into the world through the transgression of Adam and Eve.  We also believe and teach that, because of Adam’s sin, all people are born sinful (Ps. 51: 5) and are by nature enemies of God (Rom. 5: 10).

THE SAVIOR     WE BELIEVE and teach that all people are sinners and are in need of the Savior.  The one and only Savior is the Son of God, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, who was promised already in the Garden of Eden and in the fullness of time, was revealed as Jesus Christ.  We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death on the cross for the sins of the world, that sinful man, by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone will be saved to eternal life.  His bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, and His imminent return in power and glory to judge both the living and the dead.

DOCTRINE         WE BELIEVE and teach that justification by faith in Christ is the central doctrine of the Bible.  All of Scripture must be understood in the light of this one doctrine, and all other doctrines must be brought in line with it.  In agreement with this central truth we teach the three “solas” of the Reformation:  Sola Fide (faith alone), Sola Gratia (grace alone), and Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone).

THE HOLY SPIRIT       WE BELIEVE and teach that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Holy Trinity, dwells in the hearts of all true believers in Jesus Christ.  It is the Holy Spirit who motivates and enables Christians to lead godly lives out of love for the Savior. 

THE MEANS OF GRACE        WE BELIEVE and teach that God offers and conveys the merits purchased by Christ by His death on the cross only through the external means of grace ordained by Him.  These means of grace are the Gospel in every form, and the Sacraments of Holy Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.  The Word of the Gospel applies the grace of God, works faith, and regenerates man (Rom. 10:17).  Baptism is applied for the forgiveness of sins and is a washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38 and Titus 3:5).  Likewise, the true body and blood of Christ are distributed in the Lord’s Supper for the forgiveness of sins (Luke 22: 19-20 and Matt. 26:26-28).

THE CHURCH   WE BELIEVE and teach that there is One, Holy, Christian and Apostolic Church.  This Church is the spiritual unity of all believers in Jesus, which includes people from all races, cultures, and times.

THE ENDTIMES           WE BELIEVE and teach that Jesus Christ will come again, not secretly, but openly (Rev. 1:7).  At this time, He will judge the living and the dead (Acts 10:42).  The dead will be resurrected (Rev. 20:12 – 13), believers to everlasting life in heaven (John 3: 16 – 18), and all who have not believed in Jesus Christ, to everlasting damnation. (Matt. 25:46).

IN SUMMARY    WE BELIEVE and teach the doctrines of the Lutheran faith as found in the Holy Bible, as expressed by the reformers in the Book of Concord of 1580, and as commonly confessed throughout the history of the Christian Church in the three Ecumenical Creeds – Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creed.


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