Who we are
Michiana Christian Co-Op is made up of homeschool families who desire to benefit from a shared learning experience for their children on a weekly basis. Our members share a goal to educate their children at home but desire to use our individual talents and abilities to serve one another in an educational setting while keeping parents in control of their children’s education.
Serving southwest Michigan and northwest Indiana.
Our Co-Op serves homeschooling families in Niles, Buchanan, Three Oaks, Cassopolis, Dowagiac, and other southwestern Michigan cities, as well as South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart and surrounding areas in northwest Indiana.
Announcements
Our Fall trimester begins September 17th 2025
Our Structure
We have three - 9 week trimesters:
Fall, Winter and Spring, with a 6 week Winter Break over the holidays, and a one week Spring Break between the winter and spring trimesters.
Please see the Calendar page for specific dates.
Classes:
We meet on Wednesdays at Calvary Baptist Church in South Bend, IN. Classes begin at 9 a.m. and run until 2:40. Our parents are our teachers! We require that a parent either teaches or helps in some capacity while their children are attending classes. Members of the co-op choose which classes to be in and attend only during those hours. We try to honor all requests. Parents and their children must be assigned to a class, study hall or nursery every hour that they attend. After 1 year with us parents are given the opportunity to offer classes to lead teach.
Lunch
We have a lunch break and encourage families to bring a sack lunch for their own family and enjoy visiting with each other over lunch. During this time we have snack offerings for sale to raise money for miscellaneous costs of the co-op (copies, paper, etc.)
Step 1
Please contact us first with any questions and to see if our co-op is the right fit for you and then fill out THIS APPLICATION. Once we have approved you (via email or phone call) then come back here and click the JOIN button at the top of the page to gain access to our members website.
Statement of Faith
Statement Of Faith
We believe in the one true God who is eternally and equally existent in 3 persons. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus is the eternal Son of God, the Creator and Sustainer of all things. Via his miraculous conception in a virgin, Jesus took on a fully human nature-without losing any of His full deity.
We believe that all things came by direct creation of God, and not by evolution.
The purpose of all things is to bring glory to God. Christians are to do this through the power of the Holy Spirit by pointing people to Jesus for salvation, learning to follow Him in our daily lives, and helping others to follow Him in their lives as.
We believe the Bible is God’s Word to us. The Bible is God’s way of speaking to us. The Bible is comprised of 66 books of the Old and New Testaments and is the only inspired Word of God still preserved. It is inerrant and is infallible in everything it affirms, and it is our authority and absolute truth in all matters of life of all things.
We believe sexuality is designed for marriage, which is to be between one biological man and one biological woman.