Character Choice is a non-profit Christian ministry dedicated to the character and spiritual formation of preschool, kindergarten, and elementary age children.
Our Vision
We see children, youth, and adults becoming people who live out and reflect God's character and practice biblically based spiritual disciplines that impact and transform broken societies worldwide.
Our Mission
To instill roots of positive character and conduct and biblical discipline habits in the lives of children, youth, and other adults; and to equip others with materials and tools to pursue this vision so that together we become part of the solution.
Our Team
The Character Choice ministry team consists of facilitators who are actively engaged in guiding children in the formation of their character and spiritual life. The majority have been involved with children, youth, and adults in character education and spiritual formation in public and private schools and in churches for more than thirty years. Vernie Schorr, president of Character Choice, is an education consultant, curriculum writer, and lead facilitator for Character Choice.
Initially, many of the Character Choice facilitators served together with Gospel Light Publications' International Center for Learning in the training of preschool and elementary volunteer teachers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. That team of educators expanded in 1991 when we accepted the challenge from the Ministry of Education of the former Soviet Union to develop a character education teacher seminar and a character curriculum for elementary schools. The invitation came as a result of Inspirational Films' offer to provide a copy of the JESUS film for every school in Russia. The Russian Minister of Education said he would allow a copy of the film in every school if a new curriculum also could be provided for the schools' ethic and morality classes, which up to that point had been teaching only the communist worldview.
Our expanded team created an elementary Bible based character curriculum and teacher seminars, and we used these resources to equip and train 73,000 public school teachers in Eastern Europe. We also conducted character education teacher seminars in Venezuela, Central America, the Philippines, and Malawi (Africa) throughout the 1990s.
Our team created a Bible-based character curriculum and teacher seminars, and we used these resources to equip and train 73,000 public school teachers in Eastern Europe. We also conducted character education teacher seminars in Venezuela, Central America, the Philippines, and Malawi (Africa) throughout the 1990s.
During this time, team members also served together with Campus Crusade's Children of the World, North America School Project, to equip parents and teachers to guide children in the formation of their character and spiritual life in public, private, home, and church school settings. Our curriculum was expanded to include stories and activities based on classic children's literature so that it could be used in public schools.
Writers and instructors who work in public, private, home, and church schools as well as in inner city and children-at-risk programs continue to be added to our team. To serve as a member, individuals are required to be active in integrating, growing, and developing our character formation strategy in the program or ministry in which they work, teach, or serve as a volunteer. Currently we have team members living and working in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.
Our Pledge
We pledge to continue to strive to be people who live out and reflect God's character, being, and doing...
- the right thing,
- the right way,
- for the right reason,
- expecting the right result,
- to benefit others and glorify God,
- according to God's book, the Bible. * * Adapted from Anak Consultants, Austin, TX
