Our Christian values
Our Christian values drive the work of The Children’s Society and are our motivation for working with children and young people.
We understand our Christian mission in terms of changing the society in which we live so that it models the values of the re-ordered world of the Kingdom of God. These values are love, justice and forgiveness. The greatest of these is love.
Love
Love is the obligation to care for the wellbeing of others, respect human dignity and put the needs of others before our own.
- We have an obligation to ensure every child has a good childhood, as a person in their own right with rights
- We care about our supporters, volunteers and staff and the impact that our activities have on them
- We seek to build a world where every child has a place at its centre not on its margins
Justice
Justice is love in action – putting right what is wrong in personal, social and public affairs.
- We listen and act upon the voice of the child helping them to find their own solutions so that a good childhood becomes a right and not a privilege
- We actively seek out and embrace the richness that each person brings to our work, rejecting the things that diminish their contribution in any way
- We seek to build a world where resources and power are distributed to the benefit of those denied a good childhood
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the casting aside of the barriers to love. It is the discounting of all things that come between people, restoring and reconciling relationships.
- We work to ensure that no child is disqualified from a good childhood
- We do not allow our own or others’ differences of opinion, shortcomings or mistakes to come between us and those with whom we work
- We seek to build a world where every child is allowed the freedom to explore, to make mistakes and to grow
Prayers for The Children's Society
We have gathered together a selection of prayers around the children and young people we work with and some aspects of our work. We hope that these pages will offer encouragement, information and inspiration for your use - in your personal reflections, for prayer groups or in church services.
