The mission of FCCS is to partner with the home and church to provide an academic education within a Christian context to effectively prepare students for life.

From preschool through high school, programs are designed to train and develop students’ minds, bodies and spirits leading them to fulfill God’s plan for their lives.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 states that “a cord of three strands is not easily broken.”  We believe education is a three-stranded cord – home, church, and school.  In cooperation with the home and church, Forest City Christian School endeavors to build character and spiritual strength in children.  This three-stranded cord gently leads the children into a life devoted to the Lord and the path He has planned.

• Classroom Expectations: Be Punctual | Be Prepared | Be Positive | Be Polite

We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writing, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men and the Divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life. (II Timothy 3:16-17)

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, & Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:1, Matthew 28:18-19, Hebrews 11:3)

We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true Man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died on the cross, a sacrifice for our sins, according to the Scriptures. Further, He rose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He is now our Priest and Advocate. (Matthew 1:18, Hebrews 8:1)

We believe that the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. During this age the Holy Spirit will convict men, regenerate the believing sinner, indwell, guide, instruct and empower the believer for godly living and service. (John 14:16-17, 26)

We believe that man was created in the image of God but fell into sin and is therefore lost and only through regeneration by the Holy Spirit can salvation and spiritual life be obtained. (Romans 3:23, Ephesians 1:13-14)

We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation for all who believe, and only such as receive Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit, and thus become children of God. (John 3:5-21, I Peter 2:24)

We believe that the true church is composed of all such person who, through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the body of Christ of which He is the head. (Romans 8:16)

We believe in the personal and imminent coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and that this “Blessed Hope” has a vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer. (Acts 1:11b)

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead; of the believer to the everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord, of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment. (Matthew 25:31-46)

August 1982 marked the first year of Forest City Christian School. The school convened with six students at the Ellington Township Hall. The next year this one-room school house was converted to a two-room school to accommodate fourteen students.

Registration during the summer of 1984 totaled thirty-one, necessitating a move to the former country-western store East of Forest City. Because enrollment kept increasing, the secondary grades move to the shelter house at Greenfield Estates in 1986. The secondary students moved again in 1989 to a building on Airport Road. When that building was sold and the store was needed for another used, parents decided to purchase and renovate the old Great Western Lampshade Factory at 305 Walnut Street, our current location. Enrollment for preschool-12th grade totaled 125 students.

In the summer of 1993 the school was offered the Winnebago office building. Parents voted to accept the offer. Renovations began in 1995 with volunteer help. The first day of class at the FCCS East campus was April 6, 1998. Students in preschool-6 th grades remained at the West campus and students 7th-12th grades moved to the East campus.

With the economy slowing and enrollment dropping, FCCS parents decided in June, 2001 to sell the East campus and move back together. The building was sold in 2003. A portion of the proceeds has been used to establish an endowment for FCCS.

Having served students with a Biblically based education for over 25 years, FCCS has found God faithful to complete the work which He has started.