travel throughout Europe. What an incredible thing to witness!
At Trinity Christian School, we are working with our students with a clear end in mind. That end is a
well-informed, clear thinking, articulate young man or woman who is ready to take on the challenges of adult life in a way that glorifies God. We build from the foundation of the grammar years to the rational thinking of the logic years, and into the winsome communication of the rhetoric years. In the midst of that, we present to our
students the world our Lord has created. We use various means to teach our students about history, art, math,
science, music, geography, culture, and controversy in the world around them. Furthermore, we teach it all through the lens of Scripture. These things are all very, very good. However, I suggest that without
Trinity’s capstone experience of the Grand Tour, these lessons are incomplete.
Many have read or heard preaching on Paul’s missionary journeys to the Greeks and Romans, and one might imagine what it must have been like to live in a culture obsessed with idolatry. However, to stand where Paul stood, and see what he saw adds something critical to one’s understanding. Many have seen excellent photos of great works of art. However, to understand that Michelangelo’s self-portrait in the Sistine Chapel is actually an act of religious defiance makes the artist and the work part of one’s “real world.”
This is indeed “a privileged education” as our London tour guide remarked when told of our curriculum. But we believe it is also a truly complete education, allowing students to incorporate all they have learned into their personal experience with the very real world our Lord has given us.
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!” Psalm 34:8a
Jeanne Wilks
Secondary School Principal