Church Seasons and Special Sundays

Children's Sunday is celebrated on the Sunday closest to November 20. These resources are offered to help with worship planning.

• Canada's Sixth Child: A Service for Children's Sunday [RTF: 7 pp/92 KB]
  A service that focuses on the quality of life for children living in Canada, highlighting the plight of children who are neglected.
• Caring for Creation [PDF: 6 pp/225 KB]
  A service for Children's Sunday or anytime you want to invite your faith community to help take care of our world.
• Children in Care [RTF: 17 pp/184 KB]
  Worship on the theme of children in foster care that holds up children's families, foster families, social workers, and community agencies. Includes a dramatic interlude, background, and action ideas.
• Children's Sunday Responsive Litany [RTF: 1 p/56 KB]
  Create a responsive litany based on children's hopes and dreams for the church and the world.
• Living with Respect: A Worship Service [PDF: 5 pp/147 KB]
  Invites all ages to consider how we might live in respectful relationship will all people and with nature.
• We Hold These Children: A Service for Children's Sunday [RTF: 6 pp/107 KB]
  A service that focuses on all the children of the world and building a world where all children have rights.

See the Children's Defense Fund's call for observance of Children's Sabbaths.*