Brisbane Christian College is known for many great things, but perhaps the most important way of defining our College is its heart. Our children have a myriad of opportunities to grow through challenging academics, talented musical training, competitive sporting development and caring community opportunities offered at our College. However, unpinning all these is a caring, nurturing environment where children are known by name and cared for by Christian teachers and a wonderful support team.
This is captured beautifully in our College values. With the addition of one word to the final statement, our College values now include the acronym HEART rather than HEARD; providing a powerful and easily remembered way of focusing our actions and decisions around the values that underpin our College. Adding ‘together’ to the last College value, not only creates the HEART acronym, but also reinforces that value as you cannot develop dynamic relationships by yourself.
Our College values are the HEART of who we are:
Honouring Jesus Christ
Empowering others
Aspiring to excellence
Respecting others and self
Together developing dynamic relationships
Our College HEART values clearly identify who we are and what we value. Firstly, we focus on honouring Jesus Christ in all we do. We recognise that every person is on their own faith journey and showing honour to Jesus Christ is something that everyone can do. As a ministry of Life Church, we wish that all people will grow closer to Christ through their interaction with our College. Empowering others is a recognition of the immense value that God places in each person (John 3:16). We seek to encourage, motivate and call out the best in each other.
Aspiring to excellence in all we do is a recognition that we are all capable of amazing things but that it takes a decision, effort and support from those around us to outwork this. Respecting others and self is an expression of the golden rule found in Matthew 7:12. Respecting others reflects the value we hold for all people, including ourselves. Together with developing dynamic relationships, our final value recognises that God calls us to healthy positive relationships and that truly loving God is expressed in loving others (Matthew 22:37-40).
Have a look at the new landing page on our website which captures the heart. If you select the image beside the äbout us”section lower on that page you can see the whole video. The Mission and Vision of our College remain unchanged but our College HEART Values will become more central to our activity and communication.
Join us in expressing our HEART values in all we do.