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Mission Statement
Slogan
A Better Chance for a Better Future
Mission Statement
Cedar Home takes Our Lord Jesus Christ as its example and guide in taking
care of children.
The mission of Cedar Home is to provide a Christian home to take care, with
passion, of abandoned children, orphans, and children at risk in the Lebanese
society regardless of their race, colour, sex, or religion. To help them develop
the five dimensions of their personality: spiritual, physical, mental,
emotional, and social, so they can fulfil their highest potentials. As well as
preparing them to enter society, the work field and marriage, as mature
individuals capable of depending on themselves.
Values
1. The heart of CHO is open to fulfil the needs of these children. It knows
their value and puts their well being at the top of its list of priorities.
2. It is the understanding of CHO that we live in a world where many children
have experienced broken lives, not of their choosing.
3. Such children deserve the opportunity to experience the redeeming power of
God's un-conditional love within a Christian home life characterized by nurture,
discipline and security.
4. Raising the children on Biblical teachings and values as understood by the
General assembly of the Church of God, Anderson, IN, USA.
5. CHO understands that not all children will mature at the same rate or achieve
the same levels.
6. CHO understands that some children may not respond to the opportunity
available to them. Even so, it is willing to share this kind of responsible
un-conditional love, with these children.
7. CHO does not permit the mixing of sexes amongst the same campus.
8. The priority of care goes to abandoned children, then orphans, then children
who have lost the care of one of their parents for any reason.
Policies
CHO's mission is achieved through:
1. Residential home care and, when appropriate, adoption. As explained by the
"Basic philosophy of residential home care at Cedar Home".
2. Taking care of the children from the time they join CHO till the day they
reach adulthood and become independent, or reuniting the family in appropriate
situations.
3. Providing a Christian family atmosphere caring for children according to the
Biblical teaching and values as understood by the General Assembly of the Church
of God, Anderson, IN, USA.
4. Demonstrating healthy family models to these children and their families.
5. Taking a pro-active legal stance to prevent continuation of the cycle of
abuse, to the children under its care, from anyone or anything.
6. Helping each child reach their highest potential as mature individuals
capable of depending on themselves.
7. Providing support for children who have left CHO whenever they need it and
ask for it.
8. Setting up and running of a school, academic or vocational, a clinic or a
workshop, or any other project that helps with achieving the above.
Basic Philosophy of Residential Home Care at Cedar Home
The basic unit of society in God's creation order is the family. Therefore,
CHO will use the family model for the children under its care. It is within this
family unit that children are to experience the nurture, training and discipline
they need to become mature and responsible adults. The children will learn to
function as members of the family model (with the Housemother as Mom, the
Director as Dad and the children as brothers or sisters)
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