World Vision is back in New York City’s Bryant Park for our third annual Give-back Gift Shop this Giving Tuesday. Even if you can’t join us there, learn how to create your own experience at home with your family through these simple activities that have been featured at Give-back Gift Shop.
News & Stories
Christmas
From the Field
How’d they do that: DIY Christmas crafts from around the world
There’s something special about handmade crafts at Christmastime. So we asked some of the children and families we help around the world to share their favorite Christmas crafts with you! Learn how to make DIY Christmas crafts from Armenia, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Lesotho, and the Philippines.
Prayers
Advent prayer guide: Living a life of influence
The season of Advent can be an invitation to prepare your heart and reflect on your faith journey. Through this Advent prayer guide, learn from the faith of the women in the story of Jesus’ birth and how they were called by God to live lives of influence.
From the Field
Photos: Christmas around the world
Check out these photos of children around the world experiencing the joy of Christmas through child sponsorship. Merry Christmas!
Voices
1957 radio broadcast highlights story of Korea orphanage
In an excerpt from one of his Christmas radio broadcasts, World Vision founder Bob Pierce shares the story of the first orphanage he supported in Korea.
Voices
The origins of decorating the Christmas tree
Marilee Pierce Dunker talks about Martin Luther, the first to bring a tree into the home and decorate it as a “Christmas tree.”
Change Makers
Give-back Gift Shop lights up New York City with generosity
In the heart of New York City at Bryant Park, World Vision is bringing charitable giving to life Nov. 25-27 through the Give-back Gift Shop, an interactive pop-up shop where thousands are learning how one simple gift can light up an entire community.
Voices
Top 5 Christmas gifts that may surprise you (2018 edition)
This Christmas season, find out how you can give an entire wish list, the good kind of sweater, or the feeling of being safe. Here are 2018’s top five Christmas gifts that may surprise you!
Special Features
More than enough: Child sponsorship inspires hope in Zambia
OCT. 18, 2018, ZAMBIA — Because of World Vision’s community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too. Debby and her friends are all benefiting thanks to the fact that she’s sponsored.
Voices
Santa Switch: Shine bright by ‘flipping the focus’ this Christmas
Erin Weidemann, founder and CEO of Bible Belles, reflects on how her family has taken intentional steps to realign their hearts with the true meaning of Christmas and the spirit of the legendary gift-giver.