Celebration of a Community

The Opening of the School took place on 21 May 1979. Exactly 7 years later the School, that is the students and the staff, relocated to the current site at Quarry Road, Dural. The School has grown strongly to be a community of approximately 1300 students with more than 130 staff on the Dural site, and now with other Pacific schools in the Tweed and Maclean. The School is well-known and highly respected in areas of academics, pastoral care, sport, culture, and service. We thank God for all of those involved from the beginning until now.

Pacific Hills is first not an institution, but rather it is a community of people of the common Christian faith. The school community is staffed by a trans-denominational group of men and women both on the School Board and on the staff whose first purpose is to bring glory to God by acknowledging God’s place in the life of the School and through serving people in the wider community as an act of worship to God.

Pacific Hills has been seeking God’s Will in all aspects of its ministry, from the enrolment of students to the training of staff and parents in the foundations of Christian Education. The Bible is the key text for life for us and we acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Head of the body which is Pacific Hills Christian School.

The story of Pacific Hills is a story of dependency on God for personnel, for funds, for resources, for facilities and for opportunities. Therefore, we have learnt to trust God, Who is the Giver of every good and perfect gift. We have received so much from God’s hand for us as a Christian school community and so we believe that we should reach out in service of others. Indeed, we take literally the command as given to us from God in 1 Peter 4: 10-11 which states:

Each one should use whatever gifts received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks that person should do so as if speaking the very words of God.
If anyone serves, that person should do so with the strength that God provides so that in all things God will be praised. To Him be the power and glory for ever and ever. Amen

Pacific Hills has consistently enrolled students of all different ability levels, from very slow learners to very advanced learners. Our reasons for this are Biblical and simple. We believe that God has created every human in His Image, which means that they are all equal in value. Furthermore, we believe that Christ died for the sins of all people and therefore again each of us is equal in worth with one another. As God sees us as of equal value, so we as a Christian school community should see all of our students as equal in value. Thus, we should care for them according to the resources that God has given to us.



We are thankful that we live life together here as fellow travellers on the journey of life under God’s sovereign provision and protection. As I observe the attitudes, words and actions of many of our students I am touched by the maturity of their faith for ones so young. However, we have needed to pray, we continue to pray, and we need to pray more. As we look to the future our trust must always be in God and our fellowship with each other and our service to all those that God brings across our path.

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