Children's Cup Mission Overview

Together with our partners (Like Knights FCA) and life-giving local churches, we offer children hope in Jesus, empower them to overcome hardship, and inspire them to change their community from the inside out.

Every child deserves hope. Throughout the nearly 30 years we’ve been serving children, we’ve encountered stories of unbelievable tragedy and loss of hope. But by the grace of God and the Hope that only He can give, we’ve been able to partner together with people like you to see children transformed into healthy, hope-filled, dream-pursuing children that are changing the world. With Jesus’ love at the root of it all, our heart is to see every child rescued from hopelessness, tragedy, and hardship.

We’ve found that there is an aspect to hunger that fuels hopelessness. “If I can’t find a meal, how will I survive?” But when a hungry child comes to one of our sites and finds a nutritious meal, a seed of hope is planted. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Frequently when we ask this question to children who are new to Children’s Cup CarePoints, they just simply don’t understand the concept. It seems being in a daily survival mode has left them no room to dream for their future. It is a beautiful transformation when they find the hope that comes with having their immediate physical needs met, and they are able to shift from living just in a survival mentality into understanding the message of Hope for their lives that only Jesus gives.

With seeds of Hope growing in their hearts, we teach the children that God has great plans for their lives. Knowing that His plan for them is beyond imagination, for good, and not disaster – they are able to enter a space where they can start dreaming - for maybe the first time ever. And then we work to make a path where they can begin to tangibly see their dreams come true. We do this by setting up encounters with mentors and employers, helping them learn work traits and skills, giving opportunities to receive the character development they will need to be successful leaders and fulfilling the purpose God has for them. And the children we’ve worked with have quite often been considered the “cream of the crop” by hiring employers.

We also teach the children that God blesses people so they can be a blessing to others. We tell them that their dreams have the power to change the world for others. Whether they grow up to become pastors, business leaders, homemakers or whatever their life holds ahead, God has a purpose for them. We let them know that He ultimately wants to use them to spread His love to others. We believe that soon, we’ll begin to see the children we’ve worked with grow up to become political leaders, entrepreneurs that will make a drastic impact in their community, church-planters, pastors, missionaries, and so much more. The beauty of this is that with each victory story, we know that many more will follow soon thereafter.