Spiritual Formation

What Is Spiritual Formation? 

Paul writes to the Galatians, “My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you” (Gal. 4:19 NRSV, emphasis added). Spiritual formation is the process by which we partner with God’s grace to bring about Christlike virtue and character within us. It is simply Christ being formed in you and me. This process doesn’t just happen in one aspect of who we are. Christlike transformation happens in our heads, our hearts, and our hands—lived out in our actions.

As one of our 4 Pillars at Cascade Christian Schools, Spiritual Formation is a foundational element that plays a role in developing discerning leaders.

The director of spiritual life carries out a vision for what a student’s spiritual formation process will look like throughout the early learning to grade 12 experience. This leader plays a role in providing oversight, support, and coordination in areas related to spiritual formation at Cascade Christian.

In addition to the director of spiritual life, the Cascade Christian Leaders Team is committed to working together to strive toward a consistent, mission-focused culture across every campus, ensuring Spiritual Formation is a priority in who we are as a school district.

All Cascade Christian teachers, specialists, and coaches facilitate opportunities for spiritual growth in students during their student experience, making Spiritual Formation a focal point in all areas of our schools. Biblical Worldview Immersion (BWI) is an integral part of everything we do at Cascade Christian, as we aim to equip our students with the resources they need to view the world through a biblical lens. All of our programs are immersed in a biblical worldview. From performing arts, to athletics, to every subject in our curriculum, we spend time connecting what we do to biblical truth. This helps our students think, love, and act like Jesus, as told in the Bible.

Each school year, we prayerfully seek a passage in Scripture that we feel God is calling us to. With that passage, we develop a theme that guides our community throughout the school year. Our chapels, devotions, and student retreats are planned thoughtfully and intentionally so that they build on one another and consistently point to Christ through the lens of our spiritual theme.

Check out this school year’s theme below!

2025–2026: CALLED for a Purpose

This year’s spiritual theme centers on Ephesians 4:1, in which Paul writes, “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.”

While we may not be physically imprisoned like the apostle Paul was at the time of writing this letter, his imprisonment reminds us that the calling God has for us is worth whatever the cost may be. This Scripture serves as an instruction, invitation, and inspiration to ignite our faith and live a life that represents our savior, and we will spend the next year walking through the whole book of Ephesians to discover how God has chosen and called us into a higher purpose. We will celebrate and recognize how each of us is chosen by God.

What does that look like? You begin to live out your purpose when your God-given passions, gifts, and dreams are awakened in God and exercised in pursuit of His call on your life. It’s not a specific career, or hobby, or role—though God can use these as platforms for you to bring Him glory—in fact, it’s not about what you do, it’s about how you do it. It is how you are a student, how you teach, how you parent, how you run your business.

This school year, our journey through Ephesians will begin with unpacking our why—why we’re chosen—and conclude with our how—how we will live out that calling as Christians.  

We look forward to going through this powerful letter together throughout the 2025–2026 school year, ultimately growing together in purpose, unity, and faith.