Dr. James and Mrs. Terri Green

Administrator: Dr. James Green

After graduating from Lansing Baptist School in 1976, Bro. Jim Green proceeded to study for the ministry at Massillon Baptist College in Massillon, Ohio. He graduated in May of 1980, married Terri Koonts in August of 1980, and they moved to Lansing. Bro. Green was the youth director from 1980-1987 when God called him to pastor the Bible Baptist Church in Charlevoix, Michigan. While there, he became the missions director of Grace Baptist College in Gaylord. He also received his masters degree and his doctorate degree from two colleges.

In January of 2014, the Greens moved back to Lansing to assist here at Parker Memorial Baptist Church. Pastor Green is the administrator of Lansing Baptist School and Lansing Baptist Bible Institute and pastor of the church.

Principal Terri Green

Mrs. Jim Green (formerly Terri Koonts) became principal of Lansing Baptist School in September of 2015. She was born and raised in North Carolina. Mrs. Green graduated valedictorian of her high school class and magna cum laude from Tennessee Temple University in 1979 with a major in secondary education and a minor in music. The Greens were married in 1980, and she taught in this school as the ACE supervisor for three years. They moved to Charlevoix, Michigan, where her husband pastored for 26 years at the Bible Baptist Church. Mrs. Green homeschooled all five of their children kindergarten through grade 12 and had a wonderful homeschool support group at the church. God has blessed the Greens with a singing family, and they have traveled in more than 25 countries.

Knowing homeschooling as she does, Mrs. Green can assist a homeschool family by tutoring or by encouragement over the phone or by email. The ministry and serving the Lord is preeminent in her life which is why she wants to help in the school and assist parents as they try to raise their children for the Lord.

The purpose of Lansing Baptist School is to educate children academically and spiritually.

Because God commands us to be different from the world, guidelines for personal habits, definite dress codes, and Biblical discipline are taught and practiced.

The reason for our stand is not only to educate academically, but to instill in each student “CHRISTIAN CHARACTER” that separates them from the average.

We strive for our students to develop self-discipline and respect for others. We also desire them to gain the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of textual learning.

Lansing Baptist School desires to send out into the world young people who will truly be lights in the world of spiritual darkness.

Accelerated Christian Education

Accelerated

Individualized:  Your child is infinitely more than a member of a group; they are an individual with unique past experiences, capabilities, interests, needs and goals. In a group teaching situation, the student may be comparatively slow, average or fast.

The Accelerated Christian Education program is planned and directed toward learning and the individual to the extent that the student can work on their own, at their own speed, according to their own experience and capabilities, so that they can accelerate toward their highest potential.

Multi-Graded:  The conventional practice of grading and grouping students according to their chronological age is replaced by multi-grading. A thorough program of testing evaluates the child’s level of vocabulary and skills in each subject and makes it possible to prescribe curriculum at their actual level of performance. A multi-graded student may be working on seventh grade English, eighth grade Math and ninth grade Science, etc. Students of relative social and mental maturity are grouped in Elementary and High School departments.

Self-Taught People love to learn, but they dislike being taught. A person does not learn until he becomes personally involved actively in a learning experience. ACE is not a teaching, but a learning program. It is not teacher-centered, but learner-centered. The curriculum is the source of learning, as ACE eliminates lecturing to accelerate learning.

Accelerated learning for students of individual ability is determined through diagnostic testing. This shows where the student is academically and prescribes curriculum according to their individual performance. The student then, provides answers for daily and weekly curricular work on his own. This allows the student to work as fast as they want or as slow as they need in order to master the subject being studied.

The curriculum package is a unique combination of work exercises contained in PACEs (Packets of Accelerated Christian Education materials), videos, and text books. Each PACE contains approximately three weeks work in a subject for the average student. Since the teacher’s time is not consumed with lecturing and preparation, they are available for individual tutoring and counseling as the student encounters a need.

Christian

Christ-Centered Promotion, admission policies, discipline, classroom decor, environment, staff philosophy, etc., are the first and foremost Christ-honoring and Bible-oriented. The Bible is the resource of absolute principles of life and conduct. Each day opens with the Pledge of Allegiance, Scripture reading, and comments from the Bible relative to successful living. The Scripture reading is designed to enable the child to see life from God’s point of view.

Devotional group sessions permit students to communicate Scriptural principles relative to their level of interests and needs. The self-image, self-acceptance, self-confidence, problem-solving friends, achievement, and success are viewed from a Biblical perspective.

Situation ethics and the new morality is refused and replaced by the absolute standards of right and wrong. The student’s search for a meaningful experience is offered satisfaction as he is led to a personal experience with Jesus Christ. Christ is taught as the answer to all student soul-searching through regular chapel services, and other special meetings during the year. Individual effort is made to bring each student to Christ and develop an attitude and spirit of subordination. The key to successful Christian maturity and learning is to see life from God’s point of view and finding His will for their lives.

Thoroughly Biblical:  The ACE curriculum materials are written by qualified Christian educators with a genuinely Biblical underlying philosophy. Biblical character traits are written into the text of each PACE. Bible principles radiate throughout the curriculum, rather that being added to it as an appendix. All this is done through an academic “scope and sequence” designed to place ACE students well ahead of national norms on standardized achievement tests.

Education

Communicative Academics is not the child’s only area of talent which must be trained. A truly educated person is creative, productive, and evaluative. He must become skilled in forecasting and planning, and proficient in the arts of communication. ACE emphasizes learning above teaching. The student is taught how to learn, where to find resources, how to use the tools of learning, and experience in communicating these findings.

Motivated Achievement:  People thrive on achievement. There is a certain thrill involved in accomplishing something tangible with obvious results. Students are no exception. ACE takes the tools of academic learning out of the hands of a teacher and places them in the hands of the student. Since the tools are tailored to their ability, a degree of success is certain. The program provides built-in incentives and the child who succeeds tends to become more and more successful. Nothing succeeds like success and success is the greatest incentive for achievement.

Overall Results

Reduces Frustration, Repetition, Discipline Problems. Children do not come to school as failures; they go home that way. If a child is placed in an academic situation beyond their capability, they are headed for failure, and when a child begins to think of himself as a failure, they begin to choose to act irresponsibly.

Most delinquents are school failures. Discipline problems in the classroom and a high rate of absenteeism are the direct result of frustrations which accompany the failure of superior students who face boredom because their abilities are not challenged.

ACE reduces failure and boredom by eliminating unfair competition and lock-step learning restraints. Prescribed curriculum, which eliminates failure, provides a breakthrough for the under-achiever and an open door of challenge for more academically inclined students.