Kids Alive International

What We Believe

Mission Statement

Kids Alive International reflects the love of Christ by rescuing suffering children in crisis, nurturing them with quality holistic care, and introducing them to the transforming power of Jesus Christ so they are enabled to instill hope in others.

Vision Statement

Kids Alive International will reflect the love of Christ by rescuing suffering children in crisis.

Core Values

• Faith Based— God alone transforms lives. As we rescue children in crisis, we submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, depend on the power of the Holy Spirit, accept the authority of the Scriptures, and make prayer central to our ministry.
  
• Action Oriented—We follow the example of Jesus Christ. We work to build just societies as we respond with sacrificial love to the world's suffering children.
  
• Child Focused—We believe children should have the opportunity to mature and develop to their full potential. We care for the whole child by providing for the full range of spiritual, educational, social, physical, and emotional needs.
  
• International Partnership of Churches—We are an international team with local churches as partners. We all benefit from jointly cultivating local leadership and developing culturally-relevant, caring communities for children. The children of Kids Alive International homes will be prepared to lead in church and home with integrity.
  
• Committed to Excellence—We intend to be known for our determined pursuit of quality, the integrity of our relationships, the clarity of our communication, and our accountability with human and financial resources entrusted to us.
• Family Centered—We believe in the nurturing power of the family. We strengthen existing families and place unprotected children in safe, family-style homes. We prepare these children to lead healthy families of their own in the future.

Beliefs

• We believe in the one infinite God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, and that, as the Son of God. He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit, being born of Virgin Mary; that He truly rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and is now there engaged in intercession for us at the right hand of the Father.
• We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, and that He is ever present and active in and with every true born child of God, and that He is present to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
• We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments are given by divine inspiration; that they are the infallible, supreme, and final authority in faith and life.
• We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death or separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature.
• We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; that He, as the representative and substitutionary sacrifice for sin, obtained redemption by the shedding of His blood for all who believe in Him.
• We believe in "that blessed hope", the personal and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
• We believe that all who repent of their sins and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are freely justified by the Father, born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God.
• We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.