Personal Narrative: Covenant Classical School

It’s funny how we try to fool ourselves into thinking we have any control of our lives. We live with the idea that we have full authority over our choices and our days. In early 1989, My husband, Charles, and I were living in Charleston SC and had just been blessed with our first baby girl. Bringing her home had put my Master’s Degree on hold, and my husband felt that this would be a perfect time for us to move, but I quickly nixed his plan.

I was born in Charleston — it was my home, I wasn’t going to leave. God, however, had other plans for us! In 1989 Hurricane Hugo swept through Charleston, causing massive amounts of destruction and devastation — they say it was a turning point for Charleston. It was certainly a turning point for our family, as we soon moved to Alabama to live with family.

We were strong, and trusted in God’s plan, so I settled into our new home and began to look for a position. My husband enrolled in Samford University’s Sports Medicine program, and I was blessed to begin working with one of the Board Member’s for Covenant Classical Schools (CCS). I witnessed as CCS grew and matured, and I personally experienced the ‘CCS Way’ when my third daughter attended the Trace Crossings Campus. It was there that I first heard about the 4 C’s.
The 4 C’s are actually the representation of CCS’s four passions: Christ, Children, Character and Classical education designed to equip children with foundational character attributes as well as a foundation of academic excellence. As parents, we want to see our children challenged academically but even more importantly, we want them to grow in Christian character. We want them to have biblical references shape their worldview, so that, throughout their lives, they can apply these references in order to do right by the