Our staff fosters a Christ-like community through a personal relationship with Jesus, love for the Church, and treating others with the compassion and love Jesus would. We embrace our role as committed stewards of the mission, vision, and calling of Jesus as staff at Destiny Christian School.

Our staff promotes a student-centered culture by deeply understanding and valuing each student as a unique individual with a God-given destiny. They manage with love and discernment to foster a thriving community where students can flourish.

1. Parents have the primary responsibility of raising their children to find and fulfill their God-given destiny.
2. The staff, parents, and student family of Destiny, are part of a team dedicated to supporting children to become lifelong learners who grow into their full potential and destiny, striving to be excellent learners with academic and personal excellence, aiming to fulfill our God-given destiny.
3. The local church family, a vital part of the team, is to assist parents in the training and growth of their children.
4. Children attending Destiny will be mentored in developing a personal faith in God and building a life relationship that will bring strength and direction to their personal lives.
5. Children attending Destiny will be mentored in building meaningful life relationships using Biblical principles.

Our school began in the late 70s when the Government of Alberta supported alternative education through independent and private schools. We chose to provide an “independent” school as an alternative to public and Catholic systems.

We joined the Association of Independent Schools and Colleges (AISCA) as an independent, non-elitist school with a Christian foundation. Initially named People’s Christian Academy, we started with 43 students. In the late 80s, we relocated and built a multi-facility, serving over 200 students from ECS to grade 12, then called Word of Life Christian School.

As we grew along with educational costs, financial challenges arose. Many similar schools either closed, joined public boards, or increased fees. We explored becoming an alternative program within public systems but were refused. Instead, we felt guided to something better.

Destiny (Christian) School integrated the MLE (mediated learning experience) program and aimed to become a charter school, but our faith designation prevented this. In 2002, we introduced Bright Start (ages 3 to 7) and became one of only two MLE schools in Canada, the other being in Vancouver. Over the years, as MLE training became more complicated to implement, we moved about from being a formal MLE school, but the philosophy of the MLE program has remained.

DCS launched the Leader in Me Program in September 2022. Leadership lessons and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People are taught in all the classes from playschool to grade 9. There was great buy-in from staff, students, and parents. In 2023-2024 we decided to pause the program as it wasn’t aligning with our school culture.

During the 2025/2026 we began implementing a program through John Maxwell Leadership called iLead, that is targeted towards schools and utilized across schools in Canada and the US. This builds on the principles of Leader in Me program and aligns better with our school mission in creating servant leaders.