How Churches Can Help Ukrainian Orphans
How Churches Can Help Ukrainian Orphans
Your congregation can become a family to children who lost theirs.
James 1:27 calls the whole church to care for orphans. Mission 823 helps U.S. churches build real, lasting partnerships with Ukraine’s children, from a single Sunday to a long-term relationship.
Start a Church Partnership5 Ways Your Church Can Help
1. Pray together
Add Ukraine’s orphans to your prayer list. We’ll send monthly prayer requests from our team.
Get prayer requests →
2. Care for a family home
A small group or class can care for a child: $40 a month, or $480 a year.
Care for a child →
3. Sponsor a camp
$120 sends one child to a 10-day healing camp. A VBS or youth group can sponsor a whole cabin.
Sponsor campers →
4. Build a team relationship
We build individual relationships with church teams before planning any trip to Ukraine.
About church teams →5. Host a Mission 823 Sunday. Our President, Shawn Sullivan, and team members share with churches about the work in Ukraine. Email office@mission823.com to ask about a date.
What the Bible Says About Churches Helping the Vulnerable
From the first days of the church, believers cared for widows, orphans, the poor and the stranger together. Acts 6 tells how the early church organized to make sure no widow was overlooked. That calling has not changed.
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.Acts 2:45 (KJV)
The first church shared what it had so that no one went without.
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.Galatians 6:10 (KJV)
Every congregation has opportunities to do good, near and far.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.Matthew 25:40 (KJV)
When a church serves a hungry child, it serves Christ.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.Psalm 82:3 (KJV)
The verse that gave Mission 823 its name, and a calling for every church.
Want a sermon series or small-group study on these themes? Start with our pages on Bible verses about orphans and Faith in Action: Bible verses about helping the poor.
A Christian Partner With Roots in Ukraine
We also partner with churches inside Ukraine. See our church partners in Ukraine →
How a Church Partnership Starts
Talk with us
A short call with our team to learn your church’s heart, size and season.
Choose your focus
Family homes, healing camps, relief, prayer, or a mix. We’ll suggest what fits.
Grow together
Updates for your congregation, a speaker visit, and over time, a team relationship with Ukraine.
When a church in America prays for a child in Ukraine by name of town, that child is no longer forgotten.Mission 823
Church Partnership: Frequently Asked Questions
Does our church have to commit to a large budget?
Can our church send a mission team to Ukraine?
What does the Bible say about churches helping the poor and orphans?
Can someone from Mission 823 speak at our church?
How are children protected?
Are church gifts tax-deductible?
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Make Your Church a Family to Ukraine’s Orphans
Start with a conversation. We’ll help your church find the right way to defend, rescue and restore children in Ukraine.
