CMEP Let Children Live Vigil

Thursday, November 20, 2025
11:30 AM EST - 1:00 PM EST

On World Children’s Day, we invite you to join an online Christian prayer vigil for the children of Gaza and the West Bank. Through CMEP's “Let Children Live” campaign, each attendee will receive the name and age of a living Palestinian child—a child with hopes, a future, and a story. Together we will reflect on the conditions Palestinian children are experiencing, and we will intercede for your received child by name, for all Palestinian children, for God’s justice, protection, and restoration.

We will also introduce and engage with the historic Convention on the Rights of the Child which affirms that every child has the right to life, to education, to play, to dignity, and to be heard. In this way, the Convention will become an element of liturgy and a prayer.

Using a few of its key principles as prompts, we will pray and mobilize around: the child’s right to survive and thrive, the right to education and play, and the right to protection from violence and deprivation.

Building on our prayers, this vigil will also be a call to a commitment: to carry the name of the child in ongoing advocacy, to remember that children everywhere are beloved of God, and to stand together in intercession and action that children might live. We hope you will bring your church, small-group or family and join us that evening to lift up the children, the future of God’s world.

Sign up HERE to receive the name and age of your child ahead of the vigil, and register above to join the live event.

Speakers will be added as they confirm their attendance. 

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