How It All Began

International Children's Network started in the summer of 1997 as a small youth group at Covington Christian Fellowship. 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.

ICN has grown and changed dramatically from those early days of mowing lawns and singing to residents at senior rest homes. However, it has always held true to its model of continued lasting support for those in the local community who are unable to help themselves. However, ICN’s scope of “local community” grew beyond one neighborhood into one world!!!

There are upwards of 600 million orphans and at-risk children in the world, nearly 10% of the entire global population! ICN came upon this screaming need and started looking for ways to help. Even with all the humanitarian and sponsorship organizations in the United States and around the world, not even close to one percent of these children are finding help and support!!! The world has been deaf to the screams of these children and forgetful through its neglect. Therefore, it will take the entire planet to join arm and arm in winning the battle facing our world’s neglected children and it is the intent of International Children’s Network to help in this linking process. Educating these young minds is their only hope for future change and your sponsorship support is the only way this possible!!!