International Children's Network started in the summer of 1997 as a small youth group at a small church in Covington. It was the vision of its leaders to meet the needs of their local community and integrate all ages of children and adults to work together. Volunteering at Elderly homes or raking neighbor’s yards, it was vital for the group to be a part of the local community. Eventually, the little youth group drew attention and started traveling to integrate with other communities. This grew to communities in other states, countries and continents.

From this growth and involvement, many issues facing our world’s children were witnessed first hand and it became very evident that a small youth group from a small Church was not enough to fight the war millions of our world’s unfortunate children fight every day. Therefore, the urgency to work beyond a specific religious group, race, nationality, gender or status was compelling and International Children’s Network was born.