History​

Continued Growth

In the years that followed, Faith Christian would grow in many ways. With its first graduating class of eight coming the very next year (1981-82), Faith’s tradition would take firmer root in the region. With each year, new and returning students and their faithful parents would rekindle the flame of the original calling and God’s faithfulness. Graduates would join the ranks at colleges, at trade and technical schools, and in the military. With the coming of the Nineties, the Board would receive the signal from the parents’ Association to expand the campus beyond the original buildings constructed by the townspeople in 1913 and 1938. By 1997, a vacant building across the street, once part of the region’s now dormant textile industry, was acquired and renovation into elementary classroom, library, and office spaces began. Meanwhile, improvements to the original Columbus buildings included relocation of the bell with the removal of its original cupola, and the replacement of the old furnace with four new ones. With the new millennium came the opening of Faith’s South Campus thanks to the sacrifice of many from the Board, faculty and administration, parents, and other interested parties. While elementary newcomers find it hard to imagine their children study where mill workers once cut, stitched and folded, visitors to the old (now called North) campus would soon find a dedicated science lab where the old cafeteria once was, a computer lab where once preschoolers played and napped, and a renovated auditorium/gymnasium without the old projection booth but with upward-folding basketball goals. While all among us recognize our growth is to the glory of God and His faithfulness, it is impossible to forget our history’s beginning within the 1913 building erected soon after the town’s inception by its first generation of leadership and the 1938 building erected by the second generation soon to fight World War II.