Homeschooling
St. Thomas Homeschool Coop
Meets once a week (About 40 weeks a year)
Location：Mitaka Evangelical Church
Frequency：Once a week (With Summer/Winter breaks)
Language：English / Japanese
We gather children from homeschooling families for learning centered on music and English.
Our goal is to nurture a Christ-centered community and identity.
For information on joining the group or for further details, please contact the church at info@mitakachurch.com.
Our Vision for Education
Education is the lifelong task of learning to understand God's world and cultivating the wisdom and virtue necessary to love God and serve our neighbors within it.
While we value the principles of Classical Christian Education, we do not seek to bind ourselves to any single educational method. Rather, we desire to support a variety of approaches to homeschooling while sharing a common vision: that our children would grow to love God, pursue truth, and become wise and faithful Christians.
The goal of education is not ultimately academic achievement or career success, but the formation of men and women who love truth, practice goodness, delight in beauty, and faithfully follow Christ.
Christ First
Above all else, we desire for our children to love God and to see themselves as belonging to Christ. More important than academic achievement, talents, or worldly success is their identity as Christians.
God-Centered Learning
All truth is God's truth. Grounded in Scripture, we seek to study every subject—including history, science, literature, and the arts—in light of God's creation and providence.
Character Before Credentials
The purpose of education is not merely the accumulation of knowledge or success in examinations. We aim to cultivate wisdom and Christlike character: integrity, self-control, courage, gratitude, diligence, and other virtues that are pleasing to God.
Training in Wisdom Through Words
At the heart of classical education lies the cultivation of language. We seek to develop the ability to listen, speak, read, and write well, so that our children may understand truth, communicate it faithfully, and give a peaceable and thoughtful defense of their faith.
Loving Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
God is the source of all truth, goodness, and beauty. We want our children not only to recognize what is true and right, but also to love it. Through literature, music, art, and encounters with the natural world, we seek to help them delight in God's glory and learn to reflect it in their own lives.