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Your children already know they're part of a family. Open Doors helps them discover how big that family really is.
Right now, children their age in Afghanistan are memorizing Scripture in secret. Kids in Somalia whisper prayers they can't say out loud. Young believers in Eritrea walk miles to meet with the church—knowing the risk, choosing to go anyway.
These aren't distant strangers. They're brothers and sisters. And your children can pray for them by name.
"When one part of the body suffers, every part suffers with it." — 1 Corinthians 12:26
Most children in America have never had to choose between their faith and their safety. That freedom is a gift—but it can quietly become a wall between your family and the rest of the global church.
Open Doors kids resources open a door in that wall. When your children hear about young believers like Moryom—who faces bullying at school every day for following Jesus—something changes in them. Their prayers grow more specific. Their
faith grows more real. They begin to understand they belong to something far bigger than their neighborhood church.
This isn't about burdening children with suffering they can't process. It's about showing them courage they can't ignore—and giving them a way to respond.
Brother Andrew, who founded Open Doors in 1955 by smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, always said: "Our prayers can go where we cannot. There are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed when we pray."
That's just as true for your children.
Through our secure networks, Open Doors field teams can tell persecuted families that churches in America are praying for them by name. We've seen young believers in Syria find the courage to keep following Jesus because they knew teenagers on the other
side of the world were standing with them.
Your family becomes part of their story. They become part of yours.
Our resources lead with courage, not just hardship—showing how young believers around the world hold on to their faith when everything around them says to let go.
Your kids will hear about countries where Bibles are passed like treasure from one family to the next, children who meet to worship in secret, and a church that is growing—not in spite of persecution, but through it.
Every resource balances honesty with hope, always pointing to how God is at work and how your children's prayers are part of that work.
World Watch List
Explore the 50 countries where faith costs the most—and where your children's prayers matter most.
Why Do Some Kids Face Danger for Loving Jesus?
Help your children understand persecution, and how faith grows stronger under pressure.
Faithful Presence
Discover how Open Doors connects your family with believers who need to know they're not forgotten.
Your children's prayers reach places you cannot go. And they matter more than you know.