GIVE
UKRAINE
MIDDLE EAST
Week of Compassion
  • Home
  • About
    • Mission
    • Staff
    • History
    • Board of Stewards
    • From The Executive Director
  • Action
    • Domestic Disaster Response & Preparedness >
      • How To Prepare For A Disaster
    • International Disaster Response
    • Immigrant and Refugee Response
    • Sustainable Development
  • Stories
  • Resources
    • Special Offering >
      • Special Offering 2025
    • Worship Material
    • Media & Print
    • Logos
    • Special Offering Archive
  • Get Involved
    • Ways to Give >
      • Circle of Compassion
      • Endowments
    • Invite Us to Your Church
    • Volunteer >
      • Virtual Volunteers
      • Trainings
  • Give
  • Contact Us

STORIES

Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance

+ GET WEEK OF COMPASSION EMAILS +

International Disaster Response

6/10/2025

expanding partnerships & nurturing young leaders

Picture
Week of Compassion collaborates with ecumenical partners and General Ministries to create meaningful opportunities for young adults to engage in the church’s global mission – particularly in the areas of disaster response, sustainable development, and refugee support. 

Read More
 

"Where are the Christians now?"

5/29/2025

a pastoral letter from Week of Compassion

Picture
As the Week of Compassion Board of Stewards gathers online today for the Spring 2025 business meeting, Executive Director Vy Nguyen offers this reflection, focused on the reality and import of the present moment, and the impacts on this ministry we share. We offer it here as a pastoral letter, confident that even amid desperately challenging realities, we are rooted and grounded in faithfulness and hope.


Read More
 

Girls' Education in Pakistan

4/15/2025

supporting partners in shifting circumstances

Dear Disciples, 

We are often asked about our global partners and how their work is impacted by the policies of the U.S. administration. We will continue to share the stories of their transformative work, even as we listen to them and discern the best ways to go about our mission – working with partners to alleviate suffering throughout the world. Thank you for the ways you connect with and invest in the ministry of Week of Compassion. 

​Currently, all our partners are facing significant challenges in humanitarian work, both in development programs and refugee resettlement. 



Read More
 

Myanmar Earthquake Relief

3/29/2025

Picture
Dear Disciples,

On March 28, 2025, a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, causing widespread destruction and loss of life. Just minutes later, a powerful aftershock reaching as far as Thailand, Bangladesh, and southeast China worsened the devastation, leaving thousands injured, missing, or without shelter. Communities are struggling with collapsed infrastructure, overwhelmed hospitals, and a severe lack of food, clean water, and medical supplies. ​


Read More
 

Global Interconnectedness

2/13/2025

+ Special Offering 2025 : Mission Moment (Middle East)

Picture
Dear Friends, In 2023, I traveled to Juba, South Sudan – the world’s newest country, formed in 2011 after the decades long North-South conflict ended. South Sudan remains one of the world’s poorest nations, where access to clean water, food, and healthcare is scarce. As a young country, its infrastructure is fragile, and its people continue to bear the weight of poverty and instability.

I visited South Sudan to witness the work we support at a hospital providing life-changing surgeries for women suffering from obstetric fistula – a painful childbirth injury that often leads to isolation and rejection from their families and communities. These surgeries, performed in a clinic built by our ecumenical partners, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, restore dignity and hope. Each year, women travel hundreds of miles seeking this care, and because of the dedication of our partners, thousands receive the medical attention they desperately need.

None of this would be possible without a network of collaboration.


Read More
 

an update from Middle East partners

2/12/2025

Picturephoto via MECC/DSPR
Week of Compassion is grateful for long-standing relationships with ecumenical partners responding to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.

Dr. Peter Makari (
Global Relations Minister, Middle East and Europe, with Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and United Church of Christ), visited the region last week and offered updates from partners there.

​Week of Compassion, through Global Ministries, supports these partners as they respond to the vast needs in Palestine and Gaza, and in surrounding nations, like Jordan, supporting the mass influx of Palestinian refugees. ​


Read More
 

Disciples Seminarians Summer Immersion in International Disaster Response

12/16/2024

Week of Compassion is launching a Summer Immersion program for seminarians (age 21+) currently enrolled in theological institutions and seeking ordination in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Disciples will spend six to eight weeks in the Philippines or in Pakistan, working alongside local faith-based organizations providing disaster relief and humanitarian assistance.

Read More
 

<<Previous

    region / focus :

    All
    Advocacy
    Afghanistan
    Africa
    Agriculture
    Bangladesh
    Border Ministry
    California Wildfires
    Caribbean
    Central America
    COVID 19 Relief
    Cyclone
    Development
    Disaster Response
    Drought
    Earthquakes
    East Asia & Pacific
    Education
    En Espanol
    Europe
    Executive Director
    Extreme Heat
    Floods
    Food Security
    General Assembly
    General Minister & President
    Haiti
    Hawaii Fires
    Health & Wellness
    Hurricane
    Hurricane Fiona
    Hurricane Helene
    Hurricane Ian
    Hurricane Milton
    Immigration
    Incarceration
    International
    Libya
    Long Term Recovery
    Long-term Recovery
    Maui
    Middle East
    Migration
    Morocco
    Myanmar
    Pakistan
    Philippines
    Prayer & Worship
    Preparedness
    Puerto Rico
    Refugees
    Severe Weather
    Southern Asia
    Special Offering
    Sustainable Development
    Syria
    Tornado
    Turkey
    Typhoon
    Ukraine
    US Storms
    VOAD
    Volunteering
    Wildfires
    Willing To Respond
    Women & Girls
    Women's Empowerment

Picture
Week of Compassion 
P.O. Box 1986 
Indianapolis, IN 46206
Week of Compassion is the relief, refugee and development mission fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada.
Contact Us

Follow Us

  • Home
  • About
    • Mission
    • Staff
    • History
    • Board of Stewards
    • From The Executive Director
  • Action
    • Domestic Disaster Response & Preparedness >
      • How To Prepare For A Disaster
    • International Disaster Response
    • Immigrant and Refugee Response
    • Sustainable Development
  • Stories
  • Resources
    • Special Offering >
      • Special Offering 2025
    • Worship Material
    • Media & Print
    • Logos
    • Special Offering Archive
  • Get Involved
    • Ways to Give >
      • Circle of Compassion
      • Endowments
    • Invite Us to Your Church
    • Volunteer >
      • Virtual Volunteers
      • Trainings
  • Give
  • Contact Us