VATICAN CITY — The World Evangelical Alliance’s Children’s Network took an active role in a June 3-5 summit in Vatican City aimed at developing a blueprint to bring “love-fueled hope” to children worldwide.
The summit, hosted by the Society for Global Flourishing with partners that included World Vision International, Harvard University, the Institute for Global Human Flourishing at Baylor University, and Gallup, focused on transforming the whole child—addressing children’s physical, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being so hope can “take root and grow.”
Organizers presented “Signs of Hope” as a measurement tool to assess how children’s experiences of God’s love are reflected across six interconnected dimensions: Compassion, Joy, Purpose, Resilience, Wisdom, and Personal Faith.
Alan Charter, co-leader of the WEA Children Network, moderated a session on adults working with children at the event.
“The initiative will help protect and support vulnerable children through holistic care that integrates mission and social action. We support the emphasis on unity for Gospel transformation and on discipleship of families and children, and we have plans to empower regional catalysts, strengthen outcome-based advocacy using validated data, and work to incorporate the Signs of Hope framework into seminary standards to help prepare future pastors to value and measure children’s spiritual flourishing.”
Alan Charter, co-leader of the WEA Children Network
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is a global network of churches in over 160 nations uniting more than 600 million evangelical Christians to collaborate on missions, advocate for religious freedom, and represent their voice around the world, including at the United Nations in New York and Geneva.
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