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Compassion Sunday

Compassion Sunday is a day when people speak up in their churches on behalf of children living in poverty.

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Host a Compassion Sunday event to advocate for children and give your church family a chance to live out their faith by sponsoring a child in need.

Here’s How To Get Started

  1. Order A Planning Guide

    In your FREE guide, you’ll learn all you need to know about hosting a Compassion Sunday event — from planning your presentation to connecting your church family with children in need.

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  2. Register your event

    Once you work with your pastor to set a date, it’s time to register your event. After you register, we’ll send you a free Event Kit with table decorations, a T-shirt, child packets, helpful instructions and more!

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  3. Host your event

    Show a short video to your church family, share your heart for helping children in poverty, and ask them to change a life by sponsoring a waiting child.

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What is Compassion Sunday?

On Compassion Sunday, people all over the U.S. are equipped and empowered to speak up in their churches for children living in poverty.

During a Compassion Sunday event, a host will generally:

  • Give an announcement or short testimony about their Compassion sponsorship experience.
  • Share a short video highlighting the hope a sponsor can bring to a child’s life.
  • Invite members of the congregation to sponsor a child.

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Let's show children living in poverty what it means to be loved with actions and in truth.

And you can be the one to give it to them.

In less than an hour, on just one day, you can make an eternal impact. Host a Compassion Sunday event at your church and become a vital part of the nationwide movement that’s releasing children from poverty around the world.

Ready to change more lives?

Your voice is the one that will connect more children to the local church through sponsorship. You can live out 1 John 3:18, loving with actions and in truth, by giving more children the chance to thrive!

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Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
– 1 John 3:18, NIV