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About us

We began Ambrose Academy for our own children and to be a blessing to the Christian community in the area. 
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Board of Directors

Jon Hastings

Jon graduated from K-State in 2015 with his Bachelor of Science in Education and began working as a public school teacher in Junction City, KS.  In 2020, he began his current role as co-pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Manhattan and leader of Campus Fellowship ministry for KSU students.  Jon and his wife, Bekah, have been married since 2015 and are blessed with five beautiful children, Aspen, Margot, Haven, Judson, and Hugh.

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Jacob Friesen

Jacob moved to Manhattan in 2013 to pursue an undergraduate degree in Agribusiness at K-State. While attending, he became involved at Vintage Faith Church.  After graduating, he began his current roles as worship leader and ministry director at Vintage Faith Church while also working as a trim carpenter throughout the week. Jacob married to his wife Alyssa in 2021 and together they are passionate about building God's kingdom however He leads especially as they raise their children, Iris and Susannah.

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Jeff Schober

Jeff has been part of the Manhattan community since graduating from K-State with his Master of Architecture degree and marrying his wife Carmen in 2012. After spending several years as a campus minister, Jeff became an employee benefits consultant and currently serves as the Area VP of Retirement Plan Consulting for Gallagher. He completed his Master of Theological Studies from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in May 2023. Jeff and Carmen are blessed with four beautiful children, Vivian, Sofia, Leo, and James.

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Nathan Siple

Dr. Nathan Siple grew up in Wichita, KS, attending Classical School of Wichita. After marrying his wife, Jaime, in 2017 and graduating from Newman University in Wichita, he completed his education at the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry. Dr. Siple practices dentistry at Wamego Dental Center, where he has been since 2023. The Siple family has been blessed with five sons. Nathan is passionate about helping usher in the era of a New Christendom and believes, firmly, that classical education is the path to achieving that goal.

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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. 

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2nd Grade Teacher

Miss Gabrielle Wingert

Gabrielle has a passion for bringing the joy of the Lord into every part of learning. She believes that education should be immersed in what is true, good, and beautiful, and her greatest desire as a teacher is to pass on her love for God and His Word to the next generation.

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She has lived in Manhattan for the past nine years and brings over a decade of teaching experience to Ambrose Academy. What began with teaching French in 2014 has grown into a rich and varied journey: homeschooling during COVID, teaching in a private school in Kansas City, and leading online classes for students across the United States and China.

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Gabrielle has been a devoted member of Christ the Redeemer Church since 2018 and believes family is central to a child’s education. She is continuously deepening her understanding of classical Christian education through ClassicalU, Memoria Press, and Classical Academic Press.

 

She is overjoyed about joining Ambrose Academy to steward little hearts for the Lord and seeing them become part of His church.

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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.

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Every individual is uniquely created in God's image; therefore, Ambrose Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin in the administration of its personnel, admission, athletic, financial assistance, and educational policies or any other school-administered program.

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