THE CAMPAIGN FOR MOUNT PARAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
“To Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” EPHESIANS 3:20
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you hope and a future.” JEREMIAH 29:11
Imagine... ...the most technologically advanced venue for the arts of any school in the region. A leading athletic program with facilities to match. A Christ-centered classroom environment where collaboration and a spirit of discovery thrive. All missional programs built on a commitment to impacting the world for Christ. More than 40 years ago, a few dared to imagine how students could thrive on a campus which bears the name of Christ. From its inception in 1976, Mount Paran Christian School has grown to 1,100 students, pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Today, MPCS occupies 68 acres of a beautiful university-like campus framed by a six-acre lake and historic Kennesaw Mountain. With God’s provision, MPCS has truly become a place where faith and intellect grow as one. A new generation of servantleaders is emerging through the daily immersion of academic, arts, athletic, and spiritual experiences which challenge young minds and nurture God-given gifts. Students are learning how to impact their community for Christ. Though the MPCS culture has evolved into an energetic, unified community of families who are striving toward our mission, God is not finished with us yet. With expanded and refined programs in all areas, there is more work to be accomplished for the futures of our students and beyond. We know He is able to accomplish “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.�
“The heart of man
plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” PROVERBS 16:9
Tomorrow Plans for
Academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment requires facilities where we can instill these values and live out what God has called us to do. Imagine Tomorrow Capital Campaign We are on the homestretch of a capital campaign where the
OUR PROGRESS
purpose has been to enhance arts, athletic, and academic programs, uncompromising in their quality and unapologetically Christian in their mission. God has blessed our school more
$31.7M Total Goal Phase Three
$27.4M
Total Raised (as of 4/2019)
$19.7M Phase Two Complete
$16.5M Phase One Complete
than we can dream or imagine. New opportunities await and we pray you will join us to finish strong in this journey.
In 2007, you imagined...
Phase One: Murray Arts Center $16.5 million purchase of the Murray Arts Center facility dedicated to the arts and creative programs on campus.
In 2015, you imagined...
Phase Two: Catherine Steele Sewell Stadium $3.2 million construction of the Catherine Steele Sewell Stadium and William A. Cooper Field to accommodate growing athletic and school-wide events.
In 2019, we invite you to imagine...
Phase Three: High School Expansion
$12 million expansion of our high school facility is needed to accommodate tremendous growth and enhanced programs. ($7.7M raised as of 4/2019)
“For by Him all things were
created, both in
the heavens and on earth.” COLOSSIANS 1:16
Excellence Academic
High School Expansion
Imagine... technologically-enhanced environments for expanded course offerings in every academic discipline to accommodate the tremendous growth of our student-body. Doubling the size of the current high school building will open new opportunities for success. Engineering and design labs. Dedicated ideation zones. Maker space. Arts studios. Chat and share rooms. Digital theatre. Test kitchen. Fabrication labs. Expanded commons and classrooms. All are needed to nurture insatiable curiosity and create lifelong learners. . These environments prepare knowledgeable and poised students to thrive in college, an ever-changing economy, and society.
With expanded AP offerings and Project Lead The Way® (PLTW), innovative electives and co-curricular opportunities are enhancing the academic experience. Quality teachers are serving diverse student needs. International study, entrepreneurial and internship opportunities, missions, and spiritual formation experiences abound. All of these work together to fulfill our call to “honor God, love others, and walk in Truth.”
Murray Innovation Center
What is innovation?
MPCS is emphatically committed to innovative
While many define innovation simply as a
teaching and learning innovation across
new idea or as something new — at MPCS,
the continuum of the school’s liberal arts
innovation is examined, explored, and
curriculum. Our goal is to prepare MPCS
pursued as the practice of finding solutions
graduates to enter their new world with
to the problems faced in our world. It is
confidence; equipped to meet the technological
a means of thinking from which ideas are
and ethical challenges of the 21st century. If
vetted, challenges are confronted, dreams are
the point of innovation is to make better or to
made, and hopes are birthed. As believers,
improve upon, we seek to think differently, to
we worship the master Innovator, who set all
act differently, and to learn in such a manner as
things in motion by His sovereign will.
to make all of life better, for the glory of God.
Why Expand?
and a shifting curricular emphasis urgently
Since MPCS moved to its current location 16
requires a state-of-the-art innovation center
years ago, the high school has experienced
addition, providing needed facilities for
tremendous growth in enrollment (138 in
bright, committed, and God-honoring
2003, 450 in 2019) all while housed primarily
students. This center will provide the
in Dozier Hall, which was designed to
necessary environment to academically
accommodate just 250 students. The space
prepare our young servant-leaders.
demands created by increased enrollment
A high school addition will provide: • Overdue space for STEAM classes • Spaces to expand engineering and PLTW® courses • Art and graphic design studios • Maker space labs and materials • Robotics construction area and fabrication lab • Ideation zones and concepts gallery • Test kitchen • Digital theatre environments • Student collaboration areas including chat and share rooms • Dedicated space for our Directed Studies program, which serves students with learning challenges, helping them develop comprehensive strategies and problem-solving skills • Cutting-edge, flexible space and equipment to catalyze and support creative, project-based intellectual inquiry and interdisciplinary instruction
Early Interior Concept
*Note: F ormal architectural design is currently being developed. Images are conceptual only and subject to change.
Vision
for the Future
In summer of 2020, MPCS plans to break ground on the approximately 24,000 square foot Murray Innovation Center addition with renovations to the current high school facility. Annual Fund
Danish Kurani, an architect specializing in innovative learning
In the MPCS commitment
spaces, is working with our students and teaching faculty
to “provide academic
on the interior and exterior design of the building. Kurani's
excellence in a Christ-
community-building approach to design has already
centered environment,”
included 400 voices heard, 20 hours of interactive workshops,
Annual Fund is critical in
3500 survey responses, 90 ideas sketched by students
supporting the everyday
and teachers, 43 days of research and more. In addition,
cost of operating the school
through a careful request for proposal (RFP) process, Choate
which tuition does not fully
Construction has been selected as the general contractor.
cover. In ten years, our Annual Fund has grown from
Goal: $12 Million
$360,000 and 52% parent
•$ 11 million – Total cost (construction, renovation, furnishings)
participation to $585,000 and 90% parent participation, positioning us to successfully seek support from outside
• $1 million – Allotted for endowment to ensure continued enhancements and maintenance
foundations. The Annual
Progress:
Fund should continue to
• Approximately $7.7M has been raised as of spring 2019
be your first giving priority
• The lead gift, jump-starting phase three, came from the
supporting the fundamentals
Stuart and Eulene Murray Family Foundation, naming the
of an MPCS education.
Murray Innovation Center • Remaining funds will come from a combination of foundations and families of the MPCS community
“Every man shall give as he is able, according to the
blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.”
DEUTERONOMY 16:17
Gift Amount
Number of Gifts Needed
In order to reach the goal
Total in Range
Cumulative
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
$1,500,000
$3,500,000
$1,500,000
Raised So Far
of $12M, MPCS is pursuing foundation grants and
$1,500,000
1 1
$1,000,000
1
$1,000,000
$4,500,000
$0
$500,000
2 3
$1,500,000
$6,000,000
$500,000
$250,000
3 8
$2,000,000
$8,000,000
$1,250,000
$100,000
3 15
$1,500,000
$9,500,000
$1,200,000
needed and appreciated,
$50,000
5 17
$850,000
$10,350,000
$600,000
goal requires major gifts.
$25,000
10 20
$500,000
$10,850,000
$250,000
$15,000
16 25
$375,000
$11,225,000
$135,000
$10,000
18 30
$300,000
$11,525,000
$120,000
$6,000
22 35
$210,000
$11,735,000
$78,000
$3,000
27 40
$120,000
$11,855,000
$39,000
Up to $3,000
many
$145,000
$12,000,000
$7,733,000
$2,000,000
corporate gifts. We are also appealing to families and friends in our MPCS community, asking them to prayerfully consider making a personal gift commitment over three years. While gifts of varying amounts are achieving an audacious Major donors to the campaign may also have the opportunity to name spaces in the new facility or in an existing facility.
Phase Three: Murray Innovation Center
Together, we imagine tomorrow
Called according to His purpose Young people grow into Christ-following
adults with extraordinary intentionality. When
acquisition of knowledge and biblical principles are intertwined in every aspect of a child’s
development, young learners are grounded, confident, and mature Christian adults who understand joy-filled purpose and calling.
That is why MPCS exists and why an MPCS
education is so profoundly meaningful – for college, life, and eternity.
As we now turn our focus to the $12 million high school expansion and the completion
of the overall campaign goal of $31.7 million,
our prayer continues to be that we are faithful stewards of the Lords' blessings to forever benefit the students of MPCS.
OUR MISSION Providing academic
excellence in a Christ-centered environment, Mount Paran
Christian School unites with
home and church to prepare
servant-leaders to honor God, love others, and walk in Truth.
mtparanschool.com/imagine
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