Activities
Spiritual Formation
Overview
Weekly chapels and worship coupled with daily prayers and devotions contribute to Westminster's mission to prepare students to serve as ambassadors for Christ. Westminster's faculty, staff and administrators are fully committed to supporting students and families in their faith by providing an excellent, reformed Christian education.
John Bishop, Westminster's director of spiritual formation, oversees the development of elementary, middle and high school chapels where a wide-range of faculty and staff, students, and guests provide worship and bring age-appropriate Bible messages. Read the blog below to learn how this year's theme verse, Jeremiah 17:7, influences the weekly messages. High school students also kick-off every school year with a week-long spiritual retreat that takes place in the mountains of Jasper, Georgia known as Warrior Week. Middle school students also enjoy GR8 Escape, a three-day spiritual retreat that takes place during the first few weeks of the school year.
Elementary school chapels embody Westminster's mission of "preparing hearts." Students are encouraged to serve their communities through "noisy offerings" and hands-on advocacy. The theme verse comes to life through the book, "Wandering Through WorldWonder," chapel mascot, engaging skits, and lively worship.
John Bishop, Westminster's director of spiritual formation, oversees the development of elementary, middle and high school chapels where a wide-range of faculty and staff, students, and guests provide worship and bring age-appropriate Bible messages. Read the blog below to learn how this year's theme verse, Jeremiah 17:7, influences the weekly messages. High school students also kick-off every school year with a week-long spiritual retreat that takes place in the mountains of Jasper, Georgia known as Warrior Week. Middle school students also enjoy GR8 Escape, a three-day spiritual retreat that takes place during the first few weeks of the school year.
Elementary school chapels embody Westminster's mission of "preparing hearts." Students are encouraged to serve their communities through "noisy offerings" and hands-on advocacy. The theme verse comes to life through the book, "Wandering Through WorldWonder," chapel mascot, engaging skits, and lively worship.
John Bishop, Director of Spiritual Formation
"Westminster is committed to supporting students in their spiritual growth by engaging them in biblical teachings, walking with them through life's challenges and calling them to a higher standard of living for Christ."
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Secret Ceremonies
by John Bishop, Director of Spiritual Formation, based on this week's MS/HS Chapel
Jesus said in John 12:24, “Unless a seed falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”It’s a strange idea—life coming through death. But if you think about it, it’s woven into the fabric of creation. Everything we eat requires something else to die. Your steak? A cow had to give its life. “But I’m a vegetarian,” you might say. Even so—your bread was once living wheat. Your salad? Living plants. Life, even at its most basic biological level, is sustained through sacrifice.Jesus understood this principle and used it to explain something far deeper. In John 6:35, He makes a bold and confusing claim: “I am the bread of life.”It wasn’t just metaphorical. He had just fed over 5,000 people with a few loaves and fish—literal food. The crowd was focused on the miracle meal, but Jesus was pointing to something greater. He wasn’t just saying He provided food; He was saying He was the food. Not just to fill their stomachs for a day, but to sustain their souls for eternity.Bread, by nature, must be broken and consumed to nourish. And Jesus, anticipating His crucifixion, made that connection crystal clear the night before He was arrested. Sitting around the table with His closest friends, He took the bread in His hands and said, “This is my body, broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” Then He invited them to eat it.They couldn’t possibly have fully understood in that moment. But He was showing them—and us—that just as we must eat daily to live, our spirits require daily sustenance too. And that sustenance is Him.But what if the seed didn’t stay dead? What if the provision we rely on is alive—a seed that falls to the ground, dies, and then sprouts again to bring new life over and over?That is the miracle of Christ. He is the Bread of Life. Broken once. Risen forever. The Living Seed who offers life not just once, but abundantly and eternally.
Westminster Christian School, located in Palmetto Bay, Florida, is a private, college-preparatory school for children from preschool through twelfth grade.