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Our Mission, Vision and Values

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Mission

Sierra Lutheran High School is a Christ-centered institution that offers a high-quality education by focusing on each student’s unique gifts, providing opportunities for service, and cultivating a challenging learning environment.

Vision

Sierra Lutheran High School is a family in Christ that develops faithful, self-confident, courageous, and well-educated critical thinkers and future servant-leaders who are equipped and prepared for life.

Core Values

Christ-centered: At Sierra Lutheran, everything we say and do is a reflection of the love that Jesus has for us and is informed and directed by the Word of God.

High Achievement: At Sierra Lutheran, we encourage our students, parents, teachers, staff, administrators, and our whole community to give their best effort in everything they do, as a celebration of the gift of life that God provides us every day.

Character: At Sierra Lutheran, we teach and walk alongside our students to help them develop and embody the traits and qualities possessed by disciples of Jesus.

Opportunity: At Sierra Lutheran, we provide a rich and challenging learning environment and help our students explore the gifts and talents that God has created them with and connect them to future pathways that can lead to a joy-filled life.

Community: At Sierra Lutheran, we are a family. We engage in each other’s lives by caring for each other, praying together, worshiping God together, and encouraging each other in and through all moments of life.

Exemption Statement

Sierra Lutheran High School is fully accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Schools: Western Association of Schools and Colleges (ACS WASC) and through National Lutheran Schools Association (NLSA). SLHS is operated as an exempt school under the provision of NRS 394.211 and as such is exempt from the provisions of the Private Elementary and Secondary Authorization Act.

Sierra Lutheran offers a demanding curriculum designed to prepare students for success at the college level while encouraging and nurturing faith in Christ.

We Believe:

In the Triune God and Scripture

  1. In the one and only true God, the Triune God; Father, Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19)
  2. The Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and is the inerrant Word of the Triune God (2 Timothy 3:16)
  3. God the Father created the universe and everything in it through God the Son (Genesis 1:1, Colossians 1:16)
  4. God the Son, Jesus Christ, died for the forgiveness of our sins and rose again giving us eternal life (John 3:16)
  5. Through our belief in Jesus Christ we are given the forgiveness of our sins (John 3:16)
  6. In our baptism, we receive God the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of our sins (Acts 2:38-39)
  7. Salvation is owed solely to the grace of God, but non-conversion is due to one’s own resistance to the work of the Holy Spirit (Acts 11:21, 26:18, Hos. 13:9)
  8. The most important commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength (Mark 12:30)
  9. The second commandment is to love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:31)
  10. We are to be known as Jesus’ disciples by the love we have for one another, as Christ has loved us (John 13:34, 1 John 4:19)
  11. The entire Bible is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training for our place in the world (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
  12. The kingdom of Christ on earth will remain under the cross until the end of the world (Acts 14:22, John 16:33, Luke 9:23, 14:27, 17:20-37)
  13. A second, visible coming of the Lord will be His final advent (Matt. 24:29-31, 25:31; 2 Thess. 2:8; Heb. 9:26-28) and at that time He will come again to judge the living and the dead (2 Tim. 4:1; 1 Pet. 4:5)
  14. The time of Jesus Christ’s return is and will remain unknown until that day (Matt. 24:42-44, 25:13)
  15. The Church is now the true Israel of God, and the baptized are the children of Abraham (Rom. 9:6-8; 11:5-7, 25-26; Gal. 3:7)
  16. Christians can and should be assured of their eternal election (Eph. 1:3-4, 13; 2 Thess. 2:13-14)
  17. There is no election of wrath or predestination to damnation. The love of God for the world of lost sinners is universal and embraces all people without exception (Eph. 1:3-7, 2 Thess. 2:13-14, Acts 13:48, Rom. 8:28-30, 1 Tim 1:9)

What We Believe Permeates the World:

Faith in Action

  1. Human life is precious from conception through natural death (Psalm 139)
  2. Human life is created by God and should only be given and taken by Him (Psalm 139)
  3. The Bible makes no distinctions based upon human race (Galatians 3:28)
  4. Because we are created in God’s Image, every person is afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect and dignity (Mark 12:28-31, Luke 6:31)
  5. God created each person male or female and these genders reflect the spiritual nature of God (Genesis 1:26-27)
  6. The term “marriage” has one meaning, the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, lifelong union (Genesis 2:18-25)
  7. God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5, Hebrews 13:4)
  8. While the estates of Church and State are both ordinances of God, they have entirely different aims and are to remain separate (Matthew 22:21; Mark 12:17)
  9. The Church is the means by which God saves people, and the power of the State is not to be employed by the church (John 18:36, Acts 5:29)
  10. The State is the means by which God maintains order among all people, “that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty,” and is not to be governed by the Word of God (1 Tim. 2:2, Romans 13:1-7, Acts 5:29, 1 Peter 2:13-17)
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