“The Courage to Achieve, the Faith to Believe and the Vision to Succeed.”

Gary Heinke was born in Hamilton Bermuda on November 5th, 1954, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He joined the Boy Scouts in the late 1960's, earned his Eagle Scout and was selected as a member of the Order of the Arrow. He graduated with Honors from Park Center Sr. High School in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota where he served on the Student Council, lettered in Football and Baseball, played in both the Concert and Symphonic School Bands, and was a member of the Debate Team and the National Honor Society. Gary later attended and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis with a Bachelors of Science Degree (1977) and from Bethel Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota with a Master of Divinity Degree (1980). Gary is married to Nancy Kohl of Stillwater, Minnesota. They met while she attended Northwestern College and married after Gary completed his degree at the University of Minnesota in 1977.

Gary Heinke joined the Navy and was commissioned a Naval Officer in 1982 and served with Distinction and was personally decorated with the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Services Commendation Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal (two awards); and the Navy Achievement Medal (four awards). Gary also served on the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) out of Norfolk, Virginia; at Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine;  Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Quantico, Virginia; and Indian Head, Maryland, where he earned the Navy Unit Citation; the Meritorious Unit Citation; Fleet Marine Force Ribbon; Navy Expeditionary Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Armed Services Expeditionary Medal; Southwest Asia Medal; Kuwait Liberation Medal; Sea Service Ribbon (two awards); Expert Pistol Medal, Rifle Marksman Ribbon and the Cold War Medal.

Gary Heinke was also competitively selected as a naval officer to attend and graduated from Duke University with a Master of Theology Degree and the one year leadership program at the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College. He retired after serving eight years with the Navy and seven years with Marine Corps. After navy retirement, Gary Heinke served as the Northeast Region Manager for Marketplace Ministries with corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas.

Gary returned to Minnesota and furthered his education by attending and graduating fromSt. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota in Educational Leadership and Administration while obtaining his public school Superintendent and Principal Licenses in 2003. Gary currently serves as the School Administrator at Perry Hall Christian School in Perry Hall,  Maryland.

PHCS Mission Statement:

Our mission  is “to partner with parents to inspire and achieve academic excellence, model a Christ-centered life, and to develop servant leaders with a Biblical worldview.” Our three initiatives for this year are:

•SPIRITUAL FORMATION AND DISCIPLESHIP

•ENHANCED ACADEMICS

•BUILDING COMMUNITY

PHCS Purpose:

The purpose of Perry Hall Christian School is to provide an educational institution where Christian parents can send their children to meet their mental, social, physical, and spiritual needs. Perry Hall Christian School has been established to help parents “train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6) and to “bring them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). Character building and academic excellence go hand in hand as the basic thrusts of Perry Hall Christian School.

It is the purpose of the school to provide a sound academic education integrated with a Christian view of God and the world. There are important differences between the Christian and non-Christian viewpoints on any given subject. Even though knowledge is factually the same for both, no subject can be taught in the totality of its truth if the Creator is ignored or denied. Knowledge is purified by the recognition of God’s place in it. No other approach to education can be entirely God-honoring, for parents and children, as is such an approach through the Scriptures.

Perry Hall Christian School seeks to train leaders for succeeding generations who will impact society for good. We diligently seek to instill the old-fashioned values of faith in God, love of family, patriotism, respect for authority, and hard work, all in an academic environment of motivation toward excellence. The goal is to produce graduates who are productive in their careers for the glory of God, for the benefit of society, and for personal fulfillment.

PHCS Statement of Faith:

The basis of faith shall be the Word of God as interpreted by the following:

We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Bible; that it is made up of 66 books, and is free from error in doctrine, fact and ethic i.e. inerrant; that it is the Word of God and the only infallible and authoritative rule of faith and practice.

We believe in one Triune God, eternally existent in three coequal persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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 and physical return in power and glory.

We believe that man was created in the image of God, but that through sin he brought upon himself and his posterity not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all human beings by physical birth possess a sinful nature and are therefore actual sinners in thought, word, and deed; and that man, as such, is condemned to hell and utterly unable to remedy his lost condition by himself or by ecclesiastical rite.

We believe that the salvation of lost and sinful man is a free gift of God’s grace apart from works, based solely upon Christ’s vicarious and atoning death, effected by the regenerative work of the Holy Spirit, and received by trusting in Christ’s finished work on the cross.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost-they that are saved to the resurrection of life, and they that are lost to the resurrection of damnation.

We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.