Welcome to Alta Vista's website.  A few weeks ago we met with a small group of teachers and administrators from Christian schools in western Washington and British Columbia to spend a day discussing the kind of school environments that would help all students flourish and empower them to be God's agents for change and healing in a post modern world. We asked ourselves what keeps us from creating those kinds of educational environments. definitive answers, and we all agreed that we needed to continue the dialog. We soon discovered via email and websites that the dialog is not waiting for the next meeting.  It is continuing in the schools that were represented that day, involving a greater number teachers and administrators than came to our meeting.  Alta Vista was merely a catalyst for initiating dialog and encouraging change in schools that day, and that is our goal in all the courses we teach, the seminars we conduct, the resources we produce - in all of our activities and services.

We invite you to become part of this dialog.  Our dreams, our visions, our prayers are that our schools will impact our communities with the Good News of Isaiah 61which involves compassion, justice, caring, celebration; that we will actually see communities of believers that will “rebuild the old ruins, raise a new city out of the wreckage.  They’ll start over on the ruined cities, take the rubble left behind and make it new.”  (Is. 61:4 from Eugene Peterson’s The Message)  Alta Vista hopes you will join us in those dreams, those visions and those prayers.