At the Emmaus Lutheran Classical Academy we are excited about this new school year.  This past year we started with a small format, which we are now expanding.  While we are offering classes here, this is not a full-fledged school.  Rather it is a center for home schooling families in the St. Louis area.

Our Story

This past year, Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church started a venture with the hopes of assisting home schooling families in St. Louis.  We started with a co-op and are now expanding both the classes and the format of our center.  Our intention is to build on the long-standing Lutheran tradition of sound biblical doctrine and excellent education.  Many people don’t know this, but Martin Luther actually started a reformation of education in Wittenberg prior to his starting the religious Reformation of the Church.  In the minds of Luther and many of his supporters, the long-term success of the religious Reformation of the Church depended on excellent, solid, Christian education for children.

Our goal is to create a center that is particularly classical in its pedagogical approach.  This includes offerings in Latin.  Our basic approach is built on the classical model of the three stages of development: grammar, logic and rhetoric and a rigorous approach to reading and intellectual growth.

Format

All classes will be held once a week on Fridays.  The underlying assumption is that most of the work, including a fair bit of reading, will be done at home.  Then the classes on Fridays are a way to share with the group what each is learning, along with direction and instruction from our core of talented instructors.  The goal is to assist homeschooling parents in the instruction and formation of their children in a truly biblical Christian and rigorous environment that will challenge them to grow in their knowledge, talents and ability to think critically about the world.

We are especially blessed with the faculty that we have amassed thus far.  Where else can you go to have your children study the history of the world in an integrated manner that encompasses not only political history but also church history, philosophy and worldviews from a conservative pastor with a Ph.D. in Historical theology?  Where else can you have your children learn Latin from a seminary special collections cataloger who literally works with Latin daily in his work?  Where else can they study music from a trained church worker, former home school and classical school instructor with years of musical experience and teaching?  And these are just a few of our faculty.

Our Beliefs

Emmaus Lutheran Classical Academy is an arm of Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church, a member of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.  We are proud to be following in the great conservative Lutheran heritage of orthodox biblical theology and excellent education.  As such, we unashamedly hold to the Bible as the inspired, inerrant Word of God.  We worship God as the triune God which the Bible reveals and the Church has historically taught.  We cling to the only hope of mankind, namely the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, true man and true God, for the forgiveness and regeneration of all who trust in Him.  For a complete explanation of Lutheran doctrine, please see the documents known as the Lutheran Confessions which are printed in The Book of Concord which you can read here: bookofconcord.com

More Information

Our weekly class schedule and fees

Class descriptions

Instructors

Calendar

Registration form

Contact us: please e-mail any questions to emmausclassical@att.net