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Together for Orphans

An unprecedented gathering of the Church in Zambia in all its diversity, convening across every mother body and denominational line around the orphan, the child with special needs and the vulnerable child.

Who gathers
Every mother body
Alongside
Government partners
Open to
Every ministry that touches a child
Next conference 2027 Dates TBA
Together for Orphans 2027

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The 2027 dates will be announced here as soon as they are confirmed.

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About the Conference

A conference like no other.

Together for Orphans is an unprecedented gathering of the Church in Zambia in all its diversity, convening across every mother body and denominational line around one urgent conversation: the plight of the orphan, the child with special needs, and the vulnerable child.

This is not a pastors-only event. It brings together clergy, deacons, women’s leaders, youth leaders, compassionate-care workers, and every ministry that touches a child or a family and extends the compassion of the Church.

Church mother bodies EFZZCCBCCZACOCSDAThe Salvation Army
Government partners MCDSSHRCDECZambia Police
A speaker at the Together for Orphans Conference, July 2026 Leaders in conversation at the conference
What We Address

The topics we are addressing, and they are urgent ones.

Leading voices tackle these topics, speaking from a children’s-rights, regulatory and child-protection standpoint.

This is not a judgement on the Church. It is an equipping and a strengthening.

Topic 01Family-Based Care vs Institutional Care
Topic 02Familial Abuse: child slave labour, emotional harm, and sexual violence in the home
Topic 03Foster Care and Adoption in the Zambian Church
Topic 04Child Protection and the Law
Topic 05Mental Health and Trauma
Topic 06Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Families
Topic 07Setting Up Church Response Ministries that work with Government
Photo Highlights

Together for Orphans 2026

15–16 July 2026 Government Complex, Lusaka
Delegates filling the hall at the Government Complex
Panel discussion on the conference stage
Choir performing at the conference
Delegates standing in worship
A speaker at the podium

Orphan Sunday Pastors’ Conference

July 2025
Pastors filling the hall at the July 2025 conference
Two speakers on stage at the July 2025 Pastors’ Conference
Together for Orphans 2027

Be part of this historic gathering.

A gathering of the Zambian Church for her most vulnerable children. The 2027 dates are to be announced.

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Events Church Unity & Leadership Breakfast

Church Leadership & Unity Summits

A twice-yearly gathering of the heads of Zambia’s Church Mother Bodies and senior faith leaders, hosted by Orphan Sunday Zambia with Every Orphan’s Hope.

Twice a year Lusaka By invitation
Read the Theological Framework
About the Summits

Standing together for orphaned and vulnerable children.

The Church Unity & Leadership Breakfast Meeting brings together the heads of Zambia’s Church Mother Bodies and senior faith leaders. Over breakfast, leaders from across traditions (CCZ, EFZ, ZCCB, The Salvation Army, ACOC and SDA) meet in a small, intimate and honest setting to stand together for orphaned and vulnerable children.

The EFZ Director commits to Orphan Sunday at the February 2026 breakfast
EFZ Director commits to Orphan Sunday, February 2026
First breakfast of the year

Shares the vision and builds partnership for the year ahead.

2026 · Tuesday 24 FebruaryProtea Hotel, Lusaka
Second breakfast of the year

Looks back at what was committed, celebrates progress, and agrees on next steps leading into Orphan Sunday in November.

2026 · Tuesday 6 OctoberThe Quorum Hotel, Lusaka
Our Purpose

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.

James 1:27

To unite the leaders of the Church in Zambia around one shared, biblical commitment to orphaned and vulnerable children, and to turn that unity into coordinated action.

Cover of A Theological Position Paper, Executive Summary
Theological Framework

A Theological Position Paper · Executive Summary

Issued by the Orphan Sunday Zambia Movement, in partnership with the Together for Orphans Annual Conference.

This Theological Position Paper is the official theological foundation of the Orphan Sunday Zambia Movement and the Together for Orphans Annual Conference. Its purpose is to equip clergy pastors for preaching and teaching, to align the movement theologically, and to call the unified Body of Christ to action on behalf of every orphan and child without parental care in the nation.

“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:10

Download The Summary PDF · 4 pages
Photo Highlights

Around the table, February 2026

Tuesday 24 February 2026 · Protea Hotel, Lusaka

Church leaders join hands at the Unity Breakfast
Leaders at the breakfast tables
Rev. Gary Schneider presenting to the leaders
Leaders seated together at the breakfast
A church leader speaking to the room
Next breakfast Church Unity & Leadership Breakfast 2027 · Date TBA
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