Remaining on Mission

September 2025

Once a month, you will receive a letter from a member of our administrative leadership team germane to all members of our PreK-12 family-school community. The purpose of these letters is to share topics and issues relative to your investment in a Christian education, to promote communication, and strengthen our partnership. As we begin the 2025-2026 school year, it is appropriate that we start by reviewing our mission and vision statements and their purposes.


Our mission statement is prominently displayed throughout our campus and appears in our literature, the event programs parents receive at special assemblies, atop all middle and high school course syllabi, and its four pillars are even printed on each faculty member's name tag. Why do we place such an emphasis on our mission statement? Simply put, our mission statement is what we do, and it reads: "To partner with Christian families to provide scripturally based discipleship while pursuing excellence in academics, fine arts, and athletics from a biblical worldview."

The carelessness by some of yesteryear's leaders who allowed "mission drift" resulted in organizations arriving at destinations their founding members could never have imagined. Regretfully, too many schools today have replaced moral absolutes from the Bible with a value system based on relative moralityAt Prince, we will not bend to the cultural winds around us nor apologize for our Christ-centered mission; we will press hard against this age that is pressing against us.


Seasoned leaders are replete with advice on the perils of confusing mission and vision statements with the latter defining what an organization wants to achieve in the future. Our vision statement documents the foundation of our beliefs, our objective, and the method to accomplish them in the following statement: "Guided by God's Word as our foundation, we aspire to be the preferred choice for Christian families in Northeast Georgia by providing a premier college preparatory education while discipling students to grow in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."


The faculty at Prince are professing believers committed to weaving the nonnegotiable tenants of our Christian faith into your child's daily school experience as we partner with you and your church family to weave a strong "cord of three" (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Prince is a Christian, American school with a strong emphasis on academic rigor that is complimented by exceptional fine arts and athletic programs. We teach our students the importance of respecting their parents, teachers, and coaches, of living in this world but not being of it (Deuteronomy 14:2), and the importance of loving our Lord and our country. We are a school built on a foundation of Christ’s provision and blessing, and at Prince, we would have it no other way.

Col Seth Hathaway, Ed.D.

Head of School

Twitter: @PACS_Head

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