Christian Microschool Alliance
Uniting Kingdom Builders to Raise the Next Generation
Church-rooted. Community-powered. Future-ready. Since 2026.
The Crisis We Answered
By the mid-2020s, Christian parents faced an impossible choice. Public schools taught worldviews that contradicted everything they believed. Private Christian schools were expensive and often just secular education with chapel added. Homeschooling worked for some but left many families isolated and overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, a quiet revolution was brewing. Education savings accounts and school choice legislation swept across states. Suddenly, families had funding. What they lacked was infrastructure.
Starting a school is hard. Finding a facility is harder. Building curriculum takes years. Navigating regulations requires expertise. And doing all of this while maintaining genuine spiritual formation? Nearly impossible for one family, one church, or one passionate educator alone.
Then 2025 changed everything. Texas passed SB 2. Tennessee enacted the Education Freedom Act. States across the country launched Education Savings Account programs worth $7,000-$10,000 per student. The funding was there. The infrastructure was not.
The Christian Microschool Alliance exists to close that gap.
Our Mission
Formation Over Information
We reject the lie that spiritual development can be separated from intellectual growth and saved for Sundays. Children don't have a "school brain" and a "church brain." They have one mind being shaped by everything they encounter.
Our member schools integrate faith into every subject. Math reveals God's orderly creation. History traces His providence. Science explores His design. Literature wrestles with His truths. Formation isn't an add-on. It's the foundation.
Churches as Formation Headquarters
Most churches sit empty Monday through Friday while parents scramble to find formation-aligned education. We see sanctuaries, fellowship halls, and church grounds as untapped assets for raising kingdom citizens.
When schools grow from existing church communities, children aren't just students. They're known. They belong to a multigenerational body that prays for them, mentors them, and walks alongside their families.
Prepared for an AI-Transformed World
The future belongs to those who can do what machines cannot: create, imagine, discern, lead with wisdom, and hear from God. Our alliance ensures Christian technologists and educators work together so our children don't just survive the AI age. They shape it for the Kingdom.
What We Provide
For School Founders
Facility Solutions — Partnerships with churches willing to host microschools. Site assessment tools. Lease template libraries. Insurance guidance. The venue problem, solved.
Legal & Regulatory Navigation — State-by-state compliance guides. ESA and voucher integration support. Nonprofit formation assistance. We've made the bureaucratic maze walkable.
Curriculum Resources — Vetted, faith-integrated curriculum modules covering K-12. Open-source lesson plans. Assessment frameworks that measure character alongside competence.
Technology Infrastructure — Shared platforms for administration, communication, and learning management. AI tutoring tools built by Christians, for Christians. Digital discipleship resources.
For Churches
Microschool Launchpad Program — A step-by-step guide to incubating a school within your congregation. Facility audits, liability frameworks, congregation buy-in strategies, and founding family recruitment.
Pastoral Training — Helping church leaders understand how education ministry transforms congregational life and community witness.
For Families
School Finder — A searchable directory of Alliance-member schools by location, grade levels, and educational philosophy.
Parent Formation Resources — Because the most important formation happens at home. Digital discipleship guides, screen management tools, family devotional curricula.
The Alliance Difference
🏛️ Church-Rooted Over 70% of our member schools operate within church facilities. This isn't coincidence. It's conviction. Children formed in worshiping communities carry that formation into adulthood.
🔗 Network Power A single microschool struggles to negotiate insurance rates, develop curriculum, or share best practices. Together, our growing network of schools creates collective bargaining power and knowledge-sharing that would take decades to build alone.
⚙️ Tech-Forward, Soul-First We partner with Christian technologists building AI-powered learning tools, administrative platforms, and digital formation resources. Technology serves formation. Never the reverse.
📖 Theologically Grounded We're a coalition of believers who agree on the essentials: the authority of Scripture, the lordship of Christ, and the sacred duty to raise children who know and serve God.
🌱 Open Source Ethos Our best resources are shared freely across the network. Curriculum modules, legal templates, operational playbooks. When one school solves a problem, every school benefits.
Unlocking Church Real Estate for Education
An emerging opportunity: tokenized church real estate as bridge funding for new schools.
The Problem: Churches across America sit on billions of dollars in real estate used a few hours per week. Meanwhile, aspiring school founders struggle to access facilities and startup capital. The asset and the need exist in the same buildings.
The Opportunity: Churches can tokenize a portion of their property value, creating liquidity without selling. Community members, aligned investors, and congregation members purchase tokens representing fractional ownership. Proceeds fund school buildout, equipment, and operational runway through the startup phase.
Why It Works for Churches:
- Unlock capital without selling property or taking on debt
- Deepen congregation investment in education mission
- Generate ongoing income from previously underutilized space
- Maintain full ownership and control of the property
Why It's Sustainable: Once a school launches, ESA and voucher funding ($7,000-$10,000 per student annually) flows directly from the state to families, who pay the school. This creates a durable revenue stream that sustains operations long after startup capital is deployed. Tokenization provides the bridge. State funding sustains the mission.
Status (2030): Early pilots are underway with a handful of churches in Texas. The model is still being validated, but initial results are promising.
Interested churches can inquire at churches@christianmicroschools.com for partner introductions.
By The Numbers (2030)
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Member Schools | 87 |
| States Represented | 14 |
| Students Served | 2,400+ |
| Church Partners | 65+ |
| Average Class Size | 12 students |
| ESA/Voucher Integration | 85% of schools |
| Parent Satisfaction | 94% |
| Families on Wishlists | 3,500+ |
The Wishlist: Demand Waiting for Leaders
One number haunts us: 3,500+ families have registered on our Wishlist.
These aren't passive inquiries. These are Christian parents who've signed up, verified their location, and are actively waiting for a school leader to step up in their area. They have the funding (ESA dollars in hand). They have the conviction. What they lack is a founder willing to build.
How the Wishlist Works:
When a family joins the Alliance but no member school exists nearby, they're added to the Wishlist for their zip code. We track demand density by region. When a cluster forms—say, 15+ families within a 20-minute radius—we flag that area as "ready to launch" and actively recruit founders.
What Wishlist families receive:
- Parent formation resources while they wait
- Notification when a school launches in their area
- Invitations to connect with other waiting families nearby
- Opportunities to help recruit a founder for their community
The call to founders: Behind every Wishlist number is a family praying for someone to step up. These aren't hypothetical students. They're real children whose formation hangs in the balance. If you've ever felt called to start a school, check our Wishlist map. Your community may already be waiting for you.
What Our Members Say
"I'd been dreaming about starting a Christian school for years but couldn't figure out facilities or legal structure. The Alliance handed me a playbook. We launched in eight months. Eighteen kids are now being formed in the faith at our church." — Pastor Michael Chen, Grace Community Microschool, Phoenix
"We were homeschooling and exhausted. Found an Alliance school meeting at a church ten minutes away. Our kids now have community, excellent teachers, and parents who share our values. We're not alone anymore." — The Ramirez Family, Dallas
"The shared curriculum saved us years of development. The insurance collective saved us thousands. The network of other founders saved my sanity. This is what the body of Christ should look like." — Sarah Okonkwo, Founder, Cornerstone Academy, Atlanta
"Our fellowship hall sat empty five days a week. Now it's filled with children learning to love God and neighbor. The congregation has come alive watching these kids grow. Best decision we ever made." — Elder James Wright, Redeemer Presbyterian, Nashville
Our Story
Spring 2025 — The school choice dam broke. Texas passed SB 2, creating the largest ESA program in the country ($10,000 per student, launching 2026-27). Tennessee passed the Education Freedom Act. Wyoming went universal. Suddenly, families across a dozen states had $7,000-$10,000 per child to spend on approved education. The funding was coming. The infrastructure was not.
Summer–Fall 2025 — A small group of Christian educators, technologists, and pastors began meeting online. They shared a common frustration: the infrastructure for Christian education was fragmented, expensive, and hard to access. As conversations multiplied with qualified Christian school leaders and teachers, the urgency became undeniable. The window was open. It was time to act and start experimenting.
Spring 2026 — ChristianMicroschools.com launched as a resource hub just as Texas ESA applications opened. Word spread fast. Within weeks, dozens of families, pastors, and aspiring school founders signed up. The Alliance formalized as a nonprofit. Twelve founding schools joined in the first month.
Summer 2026 — The first "Church + School" partnerships formed. Pilot microschools opened within church facilities, sharing curriculum, legal frameworks, and operational knowledge developed collaboratively. A shared insurance pool reduced costs by 30%.
Fall 2026 — ESA funds began flowing to families across Texas, Tennessee, and other states. New Alliance schools opened to meet demand. Regional gatherings brought founders together for the first time.
2027 — The network effect kicked in. Schools in Arizona learned from schools in Tennessee. Problems solved once were solved for everyone. Membership crossed 35 schools. The curriculum library expanded weekly.
Spring 2028 — A milestone: the first Christian Microschool OS completed its first full year of operation. This integrated framework—combining curriculum, daily rhythms, formation practices, operational playbooks, AI tutoring tools, and a shared learning management platform—had been piloted in a single school. The results validated the model. Student outcomes exceeded expectations. Parent satisfaction was near-universal. Built on kingdom principles: formation over information, wisdom over mere knowledge. The OS was ready to scale.
2029 — Wishlists grew faster than new schools could launch. The Alliance pivoted to aggressive founder training and recruitment. Twenty-five new schools opened in a single year.
2030 (Today) — Nearly 90 schools now serve over 2,400 students across 14 states. Over a thousand families remain on Wishlists, waiting for founders to step up in their communities. We're proving that the church can reclaim its ancient role as the center of formation. The revolution is just beginning.
Join the Alliance
The Christian Microschool Alliance operates as a public good. Our core resources are freely available to anyone building for the Kingdom.
Free for Everyone
- Open-source curriculum library
- Legal templates and compliance guides by state
- Operational playbooks and school launch guides
- School finder directory
- Parent formation resources
- Community forums and peer networks
- Digital discipleship tools
How We Sustain the Mission
Annual Conference — $299 Our flagship gathering brings together founders, teachers, pastors, and families for three days of training, networking, and worship. Practical workshops. Inspiring speakers. Lasting connections.
Founder Certification Program — $1,200 An intensive 8-week cohort-based training for aspiring school founders. Live sessions, mentorship matching, and a capstone project that becomes your school's launch plan.
Self-Paced Training Library — $149/year On-demand courses covering everything from curriculum design to parent communication to spiritual formation practices. New courses added monthly.
In-Person Regional Intensives — $199 One-day deep dives hosted in cities across the country. Hands-on training with experienced founders. Leave with actionable next steps.
Custom Church Consulting — By engagement For congregations ready to launch a school, we offer tailored consulting engagements covering facility assessment, congregation alignment, and founder recruitment.
Get Involved
The harvest is plentiful. The laborers are few. We need:
Founders — Educators and entrepreneurs ready to launch schools in underserved areas.
Churches — Congregations willing to open their doors and hearts to formation ministry.
Technologists — Christian builders creating tools for the next generation of education.
Funders — Kingdom investors who understand that forming children is the highest-leverage work of our era.
Parents — Families who refuse to outsource their children's souls to systems that deny their Creator.
Contact
Website: www.christianmicroschools.com
Inquiries: hello@christianmicroschools.com
Founder Network: founders@christianmicroschools.com
Church Partnerships: churches@christianmicroschools.com
"What feels impossible alone is achievable as one body. The church has always been in the formation business. It's time to remember that."
— Christian Microschool Alliance Founding Team
The next generation shouldn't be formed by algorithms. They'll be formed by communities of faith who take seriously the call to raise children in the way they should go. Join us.