Planning for Mountain State Christian School (MSCS) began in the late 1940’s when insightful Christians in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky saw the need for Christian education and worked together to obtain a donation of property and funds to build a school.
This group of Christians from holiness churches in the three states affiliated together under the name Tri-State Regional Educational and Hospital Association. It was the intention of this group to develop a Christian school that could be attended by students from all three states. They planned to have dormitories so high school students who lived too far away to travel to school daily could still attend. In fact, MSCS did have a dorm for high school students for the first several years.
At first the school was called Mountain State Bible School as a way of emphasizing that the Bible is the real basis of all learning. Later the name was changed to Mountain State Christian School to eliminate the confusion in the minds of some who thought that the school was just teaching a Vacation Bible School curriculum and/or classes about the Bible. Regardless of the name, MSCS has always been dedicated to God for the biblically mandated education of youth to prepare them for a balanced life of service to their families, their churches, their country, and God.
MSCS was the first Protestant Christian school in West Virginia. It opened in 1966 and has been
operational ever since.
We welcome you to MSCS and a biblically principled tradition of excellence! |
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