LIFESTYLE AGREEMENT

This Lifestyle Agreement articulates the expectations of the Garden City Academy community. We articulate it here in order to ensure the standard is clear, there are no surprises, and every family has the information they need to consider if GCA is a good fit.

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As an essential part of the GCA family… 

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We take ownership of school unity. We recognize our individual actions will positively contribute or negatively impact the health of the entire community. As a family, we embrace the responsibility of cultivating and protecting the unity of the school. GCA will be better because we are here. 

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We embrace humility in our relationships. We understand GCA will only be as strong as relationships are healthy. We are grateful there are few unresolvable conflicts between the humble. We will walk in this Christ-like posture. 

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We reject actions of the flesh. We will avoid profanity or coarse language. We refuse to participate in gossip & slander. We will avoid drunkenness & harmful drugs. We will abstain from viewing pornography and participating in all forms of devastating sexual immorality and other degrading ungodliness. We will make war on lesser desires with higher affections for greater things. 

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We choose fruits of the Holy Spirit. We stay teachable. We serve first and go last. We jump in and help out. We build up. We prefer others. We fail trying and learn daily. We celebrate wins. We honor others. We choose joy. We value people and extend grace. We laugh loudly, hug heartily, smile quickly. We trade entitlement for thankfulness, laziness for work ethic. We pull Heaven down into our relationships. Wherever we go, we make everything better. 

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We acknowledge everyone is in-process. We are not perfect nor will we ever arrive, but the above is an articulation of the trajectory we want our life to take. When we screw up, we’ll own it. When other’s mess up, we’ll extend grace. And in so doing, we’ll all help each other grow to become more like Jesus.