Prayer
Please keep World Vision and the millions of children we serve around the world in your prayers, especially the children orphaned and impacted by AIDS in Africa.

Hope Sunday
Churches throughout the tri-state area will be hosting a Hope Sunday on December 8 to appeal to their congregations on behalf of the orphans and vulnerable children living in communities in Africa devastated by AIDS. Read more,,,


Ministering to the Needs of your Congregation:

Storehouse
World Vision-New York will soon launch its Storehouse distribution center in Manhattan to house its Gifts-in-Kind program. The storehouse will distribute necessary items such as clothing, school supplies, building supplies, toiletries and other necessities to children and families in need in the greater New York area, through churches like yours and faith-based organizations. To find out more about this program…

Love INC (In the Name of Christ) is a growing network of nearly 6,000 churches working together in their own neighborhoods to transform lives and communities in the name of Christ. Love INC assists congregations in motivating members to actively use their gifts and church assets, matching willing helpers and resources with corresponding needs. Read more…


Ministering to the Needs of your Community:

Tools of Transformation
Serving the poor is difficult and costly. This program is designed to motivate, network, and train churches and faith-based groups to reach out to at-risk children and families in their communities. The Tools for Transformation Program will provide a little gas in the tanks of ready, willing, and able churches and faith-based groups who want to serve the poor in their communities. Read more…

Immigrant Families New Beginnings
This program emerged from World Vision – New York’s 9/11 response efforts to under-served immigrant families and individuals impacted by the events who were otherwise not receiving any assistance. World Vision worked alongside churches and organizations serving these immigrant communities in New York, to identify those in need of assistance. Through the Immigrant Families New Beginnings Program, World Vision seeks to develop long-term programs that will help these families become self-sufficient. Read more…


Youth Opportunities:

30-Hour Famine
Youth groups from over 400 churches in the tri-state area participate in this worldwide program in during one week in February each year. The youth groups fast for 30 hours to raise funds for starving and hurting children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Read more…

Vision Youth
Vision Youth helps partner churches address the academic, social and spiritual needs of at-risk youth to help them survive and thrive in difficult circumstances. At the center of the Vision Youth program are Youth Outreach Workers (YOWs), hired by your church with the support of World Vision – New York. The Vision Youth program will provide your church with a staff member who can devote his or her energies full time to youth outreach, a luxury few inner-city churches can afford. Read more…


Family Opportunities:

Love Loaf
The Love Loaf is a 4-week educational and giving program designed to help families learn about world poverty. Each family takes a Love Loaf home and follows a daily devotional and Sunday school curriculum while raising funds in their Love Loaf for children in crisis around the world. Read more…


School Programs:

Kids in Need Resource Center
The Kids in Need Resource Center housed in the Storehouse, provides free school supplies for students who might otherwise go without. Your church may be eligible to participate in the program. Read more...

School Tools
A pack of pencils or a box of crayons may not seem all that important to you, but for a child who cannot afford school fees, they become the difference between a bright future and one of despair. School Tools is a way for you to provide an education for a child living in poverty by making kits of the inexpensive and necessary school supplies these children need. Read more...

Emergency response:
World Vision can enable your church to save lives and reduce human suffering by delivering strategic and compassionate aid when disaster strikes. Following the tragic events of September 11, World Vision - New York was privileged to work alongside churches and community organizations to assist many of the victims’ families and people impacted. Over 6 million dollars were distributed through partner churches and community organizations to families in the Greater New York area. Read more


International Programs:

Hope Initiative Community Partner
14 million children around the world have been orphaned by AIDS. By 2010, 40 million children will be orphaned by what is now being called the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. Your church can reach out to these children through child sponsorship or by becoming a community partner to a community devastated by the disease. Read more...

Child Sponsorship
For only a small cost per month your church and members of your congregation can sponsor a child or family living in desperate circumstances around the world. Your sponsorship provides them with clean water, food, shelter, medical care, an education and economic development to help them to overcome poverty and disease. Read more...

Countertop Program
Your church can place a countertop display and help World Vision – New York raise funds to help children and families living in dire poverty throughout the world. Read more...