For more than 20 years, CDF has worked closely with national religious leaders and organizations, state and regional bodies, and local congregations, leaders, and lay people. Religious people and organizations—with millions of members, deep roots in communities across the country, a history of caring for children, and moral authority—are indispensable to building a successful Leave No Child Behind^® movement.

Join the faithful members of CDF's movement for children—as an individual or as a representative of a religious organization!

National Observance of Children's Sabbaths

Prime your congregation to make a difference for children all year long. Join with the thousands of faith communities that are planning for the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® weekend, October 14 – 16. The Children's Sabbaths brings together Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Bahá'í communities, as well as multi-faith coalitions that will lift up children in need and answer their own faith tradition’s call to pursue justice, mercy, and compassion. The Children’s Sabbaths is one more way to organize around the budget battles that are placing our children directly in harm’s way. 

Download this year’s Children’s Sabbaths resource manual, “Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: Answering God’s Call to Protect Children”, which provides all you need for planning, educational, service of worship and advocacy in your House of Worship.

Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute

The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry provides five days of spiritual renewal, continuing education, inter-generational movement-building workshops, and networking as Christians from across the denominational spectrum explore how their Christian faith calls them into ministries of child advocacy and guides, shapes, and sustains them in their work with and for children. Learn more about the Proctor Institute.