Host a Children’s Sabbaths® Celebration

The National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® offers a sacred invitation to worship, reflect, and act with and on behalf of children. This manual is your companion, complete with resources to root your congregation or faith community in scripture and shared wisdom, to center the voices of children and youth, to shape worship, and to take bold, concrete action as a faith community with and on behalf of children.

The tools here are flexible: some are ready to print, others are designed for online use. Take what fits your community, adapt it as needed, and let it serve as a guide, not a script.

Each year, congregations and faith communities across the nation gather to amplify children’s voices, center their well-being, and move faithfully from worship to justice-centered action.

host a children’s sabbaths

Timeless Theme: A Little Child Shall Lead Them

Isaiah 11:6 (NIV)

The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.

2026 Inspiration: Begin Again! Roots, Sacred Rhetoric, & Revolutionary Mothering

Revelation 2:5 (KJV)

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works.

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What is Children’s Sabbaths?

This annual observance is more than a single service or event; it is a movement of the multitudes intentionally working together to center the voices, needs, and concerns of children. It is a collective insistence that every child deserves health, wholeness, safety, and abundant resources to thrive.

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How to Use the Manual

This manual provides a toolbox. Let it serve as a guide, not a script. Every tool is offered to help you and your community take one more step toward Beloved Community.

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