News & Stories

This Giving Tuesday, Thirty-One Gifts will match up to $2,000,000 with product! Rachel Teodoro writes about how this partnership helped keep newborns warm.
Voices

The gift of a baby blanket

Chickens and goats from World Vision's Gift Catalog and child sponsorship set a family in Zambia on a path to prosperity.
Special Features

Unusual angels: Gift Catalog chickens a family’s saving grace

Pastor Greg Holder encourages the church — collectively and individually — to respond to the Syrian refugee crisis.
Voices

‘Aslan is on the move’: Calling all Christians to respond

This Thanksgiving, Rich Stearns encourages us to pray for those — like refugees — who don't have the homes, food, and family we celebrate today.
Voices

Loving through our differences at Thanksgiving

Water inundates Boudain, a community on La Gonâve island, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Matthew on the island nation. Ivonne and her daughter Cindia, 8, walk toward their collapsed home. “I really do not know what I will do,” she says. World Vision supports 100 children in Boudain through sponsorship and is bringing relief supplies. (©2016 Claudia Martinez/World Vision)
From the Field

2016 humanitarian world news headlines

Join us in praying Psalm 13:6 over Rosemary, her family, and the work World Vision is doing to release families from generational poverty.
Prayers

Praying the Psalms: ‘He has been good to me’

Andrew and Callixte grasp hands as they talk about their past hatred for each other, and their reconciliation and deep friendship now.
From the Field

Forgive, don’t forget: Reconciliation overcomes crises

Resheal, holding a chicken, with his mother, Esnart. The chicken is an offspring of chickens his mother got through the Gift Catalog.
Change Makers

Emotions of giving: The cost of kindness

Cover image for the Catherine and Padrick story.
Special Features

“A chicken, so what!” — A skeptic converted

Learn how children around the world create their own fun by making a soccer ball out of plastic bags. Try this at home with your kids!
From the Field

How’d they do that: Make a soccer ball

For 9-year-old Rosemary, the magic of cooking and eating together is a big part of her dream to work in a kitchen as a chef! See what's making Rosemary's dream possible.
Voices

Magical moments in the kitchen

As participants in World Vision's KidREACH program, these kids have learned to cultivate fruits and vegetables, which helps them improve their diet and even provides modest income for the program through the sale of produce.

Thanksgiving: Kids give thanks for vegetables