Faith – The Infusion Project

The Development Office is purposed and committed to supporting and equipping those who advance Unity’s mission in our halls and classrooms—now and for generations to come. We strive to create meaningful resources that will serve as a lasting legacy for our community. By sharing stories from across our school, we demonstrate how our Christ-centered education, focused on viewing all things through the lens of Scripture, is faithfully lived out each day. Through clear, intentional communication, we keep our community informed and connected. We invite partners to join us in building a lasting legacy through prayer, generosity, special events, and planned giving. We are deeply grateful for the faithful partnership of each community member and sincerely thankful for sustaining prayers and generous financial support, which ensures this vital work continues well into the future.

Two of the main goals of our Educational Support Services are to equip students with skills that will help them be successful and to teach students how to be an advocate for themselves. At a Christian school, we have the added responsibility and blessing to show our students how God’s handiwork and our faith are infused in every aspect of creation. In Educational Support, we emphasize seeing ourselves and all subjects through God’s lens rather than our own. We help students explore what it means to be a person of faith by encouraging students to see God working through their struggles, assisting students with academic needs, and then providing opportunities to make students feel seen and heard.

As we manage the scheduling and maintenance of the Unity Christian High School campus, we recognize God’s generous provision for our school — our building and outside venues are beautiful, offering a unique and picturesque backdrop for events such as concerts, graduation, and outdoor sporting events, along with our daily classroom experiences. In this vein of gratitude, we work daily in maintaining the Unity facility for God’s glory, knowing that we have been entrusted with a campus that serves as a place where our students can meet the Lord in a wide variety of locations, in both diverse classroom and extra-curricular settings.

Unity Food Services is not only a service to help keep our students fed, but it also provides a space for students to apply their God-given gifts in a practical form – serving. Every day, a different group of students volunteer to be the hands and feet of Jesus by serving their classmates at break and at lunch. The kids serve with joy-filled, willing hearts, serving up a variety of items while displaying the fruits of the Spirit. 

At Unity, our Inclusive Education Program integrates faith with individualized learning to promote independence and spiritual growth. Through tailored instruction in academic and life skills—organization, communication, and self-care—students build confidence to navigate school and daily living. Faith is woven into routines with accessible scripture, guided reflection, classroom discussions, and prayerful encouragement suited to each learner’s abilities. By combining practical skill-building with nurturing opportunities to explore and deepen a personal relationship with God, we help students grow in competence, purpose, and belonging.

We infuse faith into Industrial Arts by allowing our students to explore their God-given talents and abilities. Upon discovering those gifts, we strive to prepare them to use those gifts to better serve God and further His Kingdom through their work, service, and everyday life. We also strive to encourage students to take pride in their work as if they are “working for the Lord.” Through patience, practice, and teamwork, they learn the ability to do their best and take with them skills they can use for a lifetime. 

In our English courses, we perpetuate the belief that a Christ-follower’s faith is to be infused within all aspects of life, rather than merely sprinkled on top. In building students’ skills of reading, writing, and speaking, we emphasize that the gifts of language and communication carry power, as proven throughout Scripture. Thus, how Christ followers seek to grow in our understanding of and how we use those skills matters a great deal, both in the academic setting but also throughout life. Additionally, through focusing on the smallest parts of speech in writing to the larger thematic lessons from stories, we guide students in their understanding of God and how he lovingly, mightily reigns over all: the big to the small, and everything in between! Furthermore, we strive to empower students to emulate Christ’s example, utilizing these skills as they engage culture and serve others to further God’s kingdom. 

One of our goals in teaching mathematics at Unity is to help students think critically about problem-solving and applying mathematics. We see God at work through His design of math and in the discoveries of how His creation is magnificently ordered. In our Introduction to Statistics class, we look at the impact sports gambling has on different generations and ask questions like, does faith impact how we view and participate in gambling, addiction, and overall consumption? We help students explore what it means to use numbers and mathematics to see God’s beautiful creation at work.  

One of our main goals in teaching Physical Education is to exercise. At Unity Christian, students are also given the opportunity to learn about our bodies and the incredible way God created us. We know that God has given us each unique and different abilities. Physical Education provides an opportunity to develop these gifts and use them to care for our bodies now and into the future. Students are asked to try their best and participate with their peers in positive ways throughout class. How we take care of our bodies is a direct expression of our thanks to God. 

Unity’s Safety Director empowers our staff and our EOCS partners to reflect Christ’s love to our students by developing safety habits and policies in our schools each day. As Christians, we are called to faithful service out of gratitude and with compassion toward one another. Galatians 5:13 states, “For you were called to freedom, brother. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” As Christ Jesus loves us with sacrificial love, so we love our students.

At Unity, students are invited to explore the incredible creation of a wise and intentional God. As they study the natural world, they’ll discover the order, beauty, and complexity woven into it—and grow in their understanding of the Creator through what He has made. Students will learn how God’s natural laws shape and sustain the world around us, and they’ll be encouraged to think about how living in light of those truths influences the way we learn, lead, and serve. Along the way, they will build practical skills in using scientific tools and technology, and become confident in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data. Our goal is not only to develop strong scientific thinkers, but also students whose knowledge of creation deepens their faith and fuels their sense of wonder and purpose. 

Our goal as social studies teachers at Unity Christian is to not only explain events that occurred throughout time or how to engage with government and politics, but more importantly, to show how God has been at work in every moment of history and still is working in our world today. In our World War II unit, we share the story of Corrie Ten Boom with our students. She wrote about how the words of the Bible meant so much to her while she faced the horrors of a concentration camp. We discuss how amazing it is that the same verses that spoke personally to Corrie Ten Boom, are relevant and meaningful to us today. We also provide students with opportunities to bring a Christian perspective to class discussions on current political topics. We help students explore what it means to be a person of faith in American Government through a unit titled God and Government, in which we examine Bible verses and stories related to Christian perspectives on topics such as authority, citizenship, and civil disobedience. Our prayer is that students leave our classrooms with confidence that God is faithful and that nothing that has occurred in history or that happens to us today can change his sovereign plan since the beginning of time.

Our hope as a Spanish department is to develop strong communicators and thoughtful disciples who can engage the Spanish-speaking world with clarity and compassion and reflect Christ in everyday conversations through knowledge of the language and culture. One of the ways we work to infuse faith in our Spanish classes is by intentionally connecting language learning with meaningful spiritual themes. We try to choose a Bible verse or Bible verses for our units that relate to the vocabulary of what we will be teaching. Throughout the chapter, we reflect on what that verse teaches us about our lives or the lives of the people who speak Spanish.   

Infusing Christian faith into computer science classes requires connecting technical learning and human creativity with Biblical purpose. In our classes, students must learn core skills for their course, refine the ability to plan ahead, and then use logic as errors arise. Students have many opportunities to be creative in projects, as most are open-ended and can be completed in many different ways. Students’ personalities often shine through in the choices they make. Finally, students are challenged to think of stewardship and ethical responsibility in the programs they create. We hope that students can see computer science not just as a career, but as a calling. 

Our busing system often stands as the first or last interaction for a student during their day at Unity Christian High School. We take this very seriously as we have the opportunity to welcome students in Christ’s name and to ‘say goodnight’ to students in the afternoon as they depart our buses. This opportunity to offer support to our students in an area beyond the classroom excites our Unity Christian bus drivers as we get a unique time with our students on Unity school buses in ministry with young people; whether routing across Ottawa County or on the way to a ball game, Unity buses dart to and from in the name of Jesus Christ.