Bring the heart of Christmas to your church

Engage your church to make a difference in the lives of people suffering in poverty this Christmas. Share Christ’s love with others through tangible, practical gifts from World Concern’s Global Gift Guide.

The Global Gift Guide is a way to honor loved ones while giving gifts to the desperately poor. It could be a goat, a water well, even an education.

We'd love to send you a Global Gift Guide kit for free. It includes as many Global Gift Guides as you like, as well as information about World Concern and a short DVD you can show your church. Email us for a free kit.

Additional resources:

We make it easy for you to bring the Global Gift Guide to your church by providing everything you need:

• Bulletin inserts
• Posters
• Powerpoint slide
• Video

Contact Mark Lamb at 800-755-5022 ext 7386 or markl@worldconcern.org for more information.

The gift of safety for vulnerable kids

Little Toshiko is safe now. The child predators plaguing the six-year-old’s Thailand village are losing their power to deceive. This is remarkable, since human traffickers make their money by targeting parentless, impoverished children like her. When we found Toshiko, the hungry girl was eating watery rice—it felt like more in her stomach.

Continue Toshiko's story

Clean water to replace dirty pond water

From the hand pump flows a fantastic answer to prayer. Noolari Lemein, a smiling Kenyan mother, positions her plastic water barrel under the clean, clear stream and gives thanks. With this well water, Noolari can be a more involved mother to her five children, and her family has better health. “It has reduced our expenses on medical bills,” said Noolari. “I feel privileged.”

Continue Noolari's story

Goats for families in need

In the coastal city of Petit-Goâve, Haiti, community volunteers teach 15- to 17-year-olds how to breed and sell goats. Goats are a valuable commodity in Haiti, where the average per capita income is less than a dollar per day. Not only do goats provide milk—which can be sold—but the sale of a goat’s offspring can net its owner the equivalent of four months' income.

Continue reading how goats help AIDS orphans

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When you give to World Concern, 94.9% of every dollar—cash plus gifts-in-kind—goes directly to programs that serve the poor. Wise stewardship is important to us, and we work hard to keep administrative costs down so more people can be helped.

Though its parent organization, CRISTA, World Concern is ranked as a Four Star Charity by Charity Navigator. In addition, we are held accountable through internal audits, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), as well as through the US government.