Lead your church to live out God's heart for the orphan

Orphan Sunday^® is your opportunity to unite your congregation with churches across Zambia and around the world to care for orphans and vulnerable children in the name of Jesus.

Your Invitation

Every church has a role to serve the orphan

Every church in Zambia—large or small—has a part to play in caring for orphans.You don’t need a special program or a large budget to begin.=

You only need a heart willing to respond to God’s call.

For many believers, this may be the first time they have heard that caring for orphans is part of God’s command to His Church.

Through Orphan Sunday^®, your church can discover what the Bible teaches about the orphan and begin living it out—showing that the orphan is not cursed or forgotten, but beloved by God and welcomed into His family through the Gospel of Christ. As the Church, we must not keep the orphan on the outside looking in. God’s heart is for every child to be part of His family, entirely accepted, valued, and included in the life of His Church. When we bring them close, we reveal the true love of our Father.

How Your Church Can Begin

1

Pray

Ask God to open your congregation’s heart to the orphan and to the fatherless.

2

Teach

Share what God’s Word says about the fatherless in your Sunday services.

3

Plan

Form an Orphan Sunday^® team to help your church take practical steps.

4

Act

Host Orphan Sunday^® and lead your members to care for orphans throughout the year. While Orphan Sunday Zambia is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of November, you can host Orphan Sunday^® activities weekly, monthly, or quarterly, not just once a year.

Practical Tools

For Your Church

Every Orphan Sunday^® church receives resources to help you get started:

Sermon Topics About God’s Heart for Orphans – Ready-to-use Scripture passages and preaching ideas.
25 Ways Your Church Can Show Christ’s Love to Orphans – Simple and biblical ways to begin ministering to orphans right where you are.
Orphan Sunday^® Resource Library – Access free materials to help you prepare and promote Orphan Sunday^® in your church. This will include posters, graphics, videos, sermon outlines, devotionals, Bible studies, and more.
Churches that sign up will be added to the Orphan Sunday^® Zambia mailing list and will receive updates as new resources become available.

May every Church in Zambia unite as one body to reflect God's heart for the orphan.

Why the Church?

25 WAYS

Discover How to Lead Your Church in Living Out God’s Heart for the Fatherless

This practical guide equips pastors and ministry leaders with 25 actionable ways to awaken compassion, inspire obedience, and build a culture of care for orphans and vulnerable children. Rooted in Scripture and overflowing with practical ideas, it shows how your church can reflect God’s heart — from preaching and prayer to hands-on outreach.

Download this free resource and help your congregation see that the orphan is not a burden, but a blessing — and that caring for them reveals the very heart of the Gospel.

A Vision of Unity

A Rally Call For Every Church

When you teach your church about God’s heart for the orphan, you awaken faith, compassion, and obedience in your people.

Orphan Sunday^® is not just one day—it’s the beginning of a lifestyle of love and care for vulnerable children, widows, and families in your community.

Join churches across Zambia as we rise with one voice to proclaim God’s love for the orphan.

Together, the Church can become the family every child needs.

Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

Psalm 82:3