by Adam Kronberger / Head of School

This past Monday morning, around 80 Crosshill Christian School teachers, school board members, and Church on the Hill Pastors and staff gathered to officially kick off the 2018–2019 school year. For over 2 hours, this amazing group of people met together as a mission-focused team. Through worship, prayer, and fellowship, God’s clear call for Crosshill Christian to be a place for discipleship training was solidified.Crosshill Christian opened as a ministry of Church on the Hill in 1992, and continues as one of its most-valued and largest mission fields. Making disciples is a call that the church is responsible for around the world, and also in its own backyard. There are over 70 churches represented by the diverse CCS student body, with teachers and staff members attending dozens of different churches in the Salem-Keizer area.

The original vision of the school (in 1992 with 32 students) was to raise up a remnant of students who are eager to fulfill God’s call on their lives. In 2012, there were 252 students served by this vision. Today, there are over 470 students whom God has brought to His CCS campuses for discipleship training. With 11 new teachers and staff this year, there is much excitement to open our doors to families.

We look forward to having you visit the campus and classrooms Thursday, August 30th. Classrooms will be open from 3-5 pm, and from 6-7:30 pm (teachers will be unavailable between 5-6 pm). Please swing by, drop off your school supplies in the classroom (1st period), pick up class schedules and yearbooks (at the office), and meet returning and new staff. 

– Adam Kronberger / Head of School

by Adam Kronberger / Head of School

It seems it was just yesterday that I located my dusty flip flops at the back of my closet and slipped them on my pale feet to officially begin summer. Now it is late August and I have gone through 2 pairs of grocery store sunglasses and need a jacket when the temperature dips below 80. Just as the environment around us changes, so do the glorious people who inhabit it. As the first week of school nears, changes will continue to take place with the weather and our incoming students. New preschool students are mastering their potty training (hopefully). Students and teachers are slowly reducing their bedtimes. Fresh school supplies fill crammed closets awaiting their transportation to a new classroom. Last minute trips to the pool and weekend camping adventures are planned before summer is officially over. Most changes in the season include sadness of what is ending, yet joyful anticipation of what is to come. Our prayer is that Crosshill students (and parents) are looking forward to the upcoming transition from summer break back to school.

I can think of one “changing of the seasons” that we all agree is one-sided. A past season that we do not want to experience again. When we surrender our lives to Jesus Christ, and experience for the first time His undeserved grace, there is no desire to turn back. The new life we experience as we walk with God holds no regrets. Summer is a wonderful time to share the joy of our faith with our children in God’s creation. Our prayer is that this joy continues, and students’ faith grows, as they walk into their classrooms in new adventures of learning.

– Adam Kronberger / Head of School