About us
We began Ambrose Academy for our own children and to be a blessing to the Christian community in the area.
Board of Directors
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Steven Thomas
Steven Thomas married his wife Vicki in 1984 at a chapel on Ft. Riley and served in the Army for 30 years. After retiring they moved back to Manhattan to enjoy their three daughters and 8+ grandchildren. Steven is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and an active volunteer at Vintage Faith Church. He especially enjoys short-term missions and helping out wherever needed. He joined the Ambrose Academy Board in 2024.
Teachers
Vision
If successful in accomplishing our mission, graduates of Ambrose Academy will:
Know God: Wholehearted trust and enjoyment of God.
Love Wisdom: Well-rounded sages who love and apply God’s word to every area of life.
Embody Courage: Equipped and persuaded to fight righteously against all that is evil.
Govern Well: Embody self-government and be godly leaders of others.
Cultivate Beauty: Lifelong appreciation and promotion of goodness, truth, and beauty.
Remain Steadfast: Faith-filled perseverance through opposition.
Build the Kingdom: Advance the reign of Christ through faithful Christian living.
“In essentials, unity;
in non-essentials, liberty;
in all things, charity,”
St. Augustine
Statement of faith
We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and was born of a virgin, Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hades, and on the third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into Heaven, where He sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From Heaven He shall come to earth again to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, one holy catholic church, the communion of all true saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the gift of everlasting life. (Apostle’s Creed)
We believe that God reveals Himself through the creation, preservation, and government of the universe. We believe that God makes Himself more clearly and fully known through the Scriptures, which are the only inerrant and infallible Word of God, our ultimate and final authoritative rule for faith and practice. These Scriptures are made up of 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation, the authority of which depend not upon the testimony of any man or church, and are all to be received as the Word of God.
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We believe that there is but one living and true God, eternally existent in three Persons of one power, substance, and eternity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He is perfectly wise, the overflowing fountain of all good. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. In all things He is limited by nothing other than His own nature and character. We believe the God we serve is holy, righteous, good, loving, and full of mercy. He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Governor of all that has been made.
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We believe in the true deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, such that two dis- tinct natures, divine and human, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power and glory.
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We believe that Adam was made from the dust of the ground and formed after God’s im- age and likeness, which was good, righteous, and holy. Because of Adam’s sin all man- kind is in a state of rebellion against God. For the salvation of such lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary.
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We believe that salvation is by grace through faith alone, and that faith without works is dead. We believe that God freely justifies His own, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as right- eous, for the sake of Jesus Christ alone.
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We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, as the Spirit of Christ within us enables us to do freely and cheerfully what the will of God revealed in Scripture requires to be done. We believe that good works are only those which arise from true faith, conform to God’s Word, and are done for His glory.
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We believe God has appointed a day when He will judge the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved to the resurrection of life, and those who are lost to the resurrection of damnation.
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We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. All who are united to Christ as Head of the Church are united to one another in love, and have communion in each other’s gifts and graces.
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We believe that God defined marriage as the life-long covenant between one man and one woman, and that all forms of sexual activity outside of marriage are sin. We believe that God immutably creates each person to reflect His image as male or female.