Stephen Belk

Stephen comes from Mississippi, but has lived in places all over the United States. Thanks to his parents, he was raised in church all his life, but never really knew who Christ was on an intimate and personal level. In 2009 he joined the Marine Corps where he worked on helicopters for five years. He met Jessi during pre-deployment leave in 2012, they married one another in '13, and they both became Christians in 2014. Feeling the call to ministry, Stephen then moved to New Orleans to do undergraduate and seminary work at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. After completion in 2017, they moved to North Carolina where he earned an MA in Biblical and Theological Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Since then, Stephen has taught 6th grade at Logos School and is getting to know the Moscow community.

Outside of teaching, Stephen attends Christ Church and enjoys spending time with his friends. He also likes to read, play games, and have fun with his dog, Lupin. He desires to continue his education in the hopes of one day teaching at a higher level. His areas of interest are theology, apologetics, and comparative religions.

Teaching Philosophy

Christ came so that both the heart and the mind of man would be redeemed. As such, the renewing of one's mind is inseparable from the proclamation of God and his Gospel in all areas of life. My main goal as a teacher is to foster the desire to seek more diligently God's glory in every aspect of His creation. This is because there is an interconnectedness between subjects and disciplines that is illuminated by the Christian worldview which is missing from secular education. As such, to learn about languages and logic is to learn more about the Creator who speaks and is omniscient. I believe that enthusiasm over these disciplines will allow our hearts to be molded while our imagination is cultivated.

Statement of Faith

I attend Christ Church and am a Reformed Baptist that personally adheres to the 2nd London Confession of 1689. I hold to to Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, as well as the Chalcedonian Definition on the nature of Christ, and the "Five Solas" of the Reformation. All have sinned, and as sinners we need the salvation that comes only from the divine grace that has been gifted to us by the Trinitarian God who is revealed in the inerrant and infallible Scriptures. I believe in a literal six-day creation which God spoke forth ex nihilo. Likewise, I believe that the first 11 chapters of Genesis are narrative, not myth, and that they still have instruction for us today. I look forward, with the Church, to the bodily resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.