SHUL Guiding Principles

Our Mission is the care and welfare of each individual child, so as to achieve the fullness of life 

Our Program is vested by the local community leadership as a community development initiative under the guiding principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols (UNICEF).

Guiding Principles

• Recognizing that orphans are made in the image of God and therefore purposing to care for them in a way that reflects the kind of love, concern, protection and nurture that is commensurate with one who bears the image of the Creator.  
• Promoting the Biblically defined family unit, the sanctity of marriage and the necessity of Biblical fidelity to the institution of the family.  

• Exhorting, encouraging and empowering the local expression of the body of Christ to be a catalyst for proving the best possible care on behalf of orphans.  

• Working with and through models of care that are thoroughly Biblical (opposed to humanistic/psychological/anthropological models).  

• Assisting God-ordained institutions such as churches, families and schools to be empowered as the primary means by which Biblical models of care are instituted.  

• Leading by example through individual acts of compassion, sacrifice, suffering, and service to orphans for the glory of God.  

• Advocating on behalf of and, when necessary, defending orphans against exploitation, neglect and abuse.  

• Determining that the gospel must be central to any model that is deemed best, which is to include close attention to the content of the gospel message, the clear declaration of that message and a powerful demonstration of it.  

• Committing ourselves to the principles of Scripture in caring for orphans, being careful not to subject Scripture to the institutions of man when they are in conflict.  

• Embracing the fiscal realities of providing care that is determined to be best and most Christ-exalting.  

• Participating in models of care that mirror the love and care that God has for us

Darren Beck Care of Orphans: Guiding Principles and Best Practice, Complete Version 2005 (eternal perspective ministries)