Southern Vales Christian College | |
Established: | 1980 (Morphett Vale campus) 1991 (Aldinga campus) |
Type: | Independent, Christian, co-educational |
Denomination: | Nondenominational |
Principal: | Jenny Nelson |
Chairman: | Pastor Martyn Manuel |
Campus: | Morphett Vale Aldinga |
City: | Adelaide |
State: | South Australia |
Country: | Australia |
Homepage: | www.svcc.sa.edu.au |
Coordinates: | -35.1125°N 138.5357°W |
Southern Vales Christian College is a Christian school located across two campuses in South Australia. It is a ministry of Harvest Church. The original campus is located in Morphett Vale with a second campus opened in Aldinga.
Southern Vales Christian College first opened in September 1980 as Morphett Vale Christian Community School operating as a ministry of the Morphett Vale Baptist Church (today known as Harvest Church). A second campus in Aldinga was opened in early 1991. Both campuses are promoted as having extensive experience with special needs students.[1]
On 27 August 2021, Nine News Adelaide reported that Southern Vales Christian College has a policy against hiring homosexual teachers.[2] While the college defended the policy based on Australia's religious discrimination laws, South Australian Premier Steven Marshall said, "South Australia has always been a diverse, accepting, respectful state and we don’t want to have discrimination here in our state."[3]