CHURCH YEAR CALENDAR
September 2023
- Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
- Children’s Missions Day (September 16)
- Caring Well Sunday (September 24)
October 2023
- Cooperative Program Sunday (October 1)
- World Mental Health Day (October 10)
- Day of Prayer for Associational Missions (October 22)
November 2023
- Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (November 5)
- Baptist Women’s World Day of Prayer (November 6)
- Orphans and Widows Sunday (November 12)
December 2023
January 2024
- National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
- Sanctity of Life Sunday (January 21)
February 2024
- George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism, and Missions Sunday (February 4)
- Focus on WMU Sunday (February 18)
- Racial Reconciliation Sunday (February 25)
March 2024
- Week of Prayer and Mission Study for North American Missions and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (March 3–10)
- Church Planting Emphasis Sunday (March 17)
- World Water Day (March 22) Click here for information on Pure Water, Pure Love.
- Easter (March 31)
April 2024
- Child Abuse Prevention Month
- Week of the Young Child (April 6–12)
- Baptism Sunday (April 7)
May 2024
- Mental Health Awareness Month
- World Fair Trade Day (May 11) Click here for WorldCrafts.
June 2024
- Disaster Relief Sunday (June 2)
- WMU Missions Adventure and Celebration, Indianapolis, Indiana (June 9–10)*
- SBC Annual Meeting: Indianapolis, Indiana (June 11–12)
- World Refugee Day (June 20) Click here for refugee awareness resources.
July 2024
- National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
- Religious Liberty Sunday (July 7)
August 2024
- Christmas in August
- Send Relief Sunday (August 4)
- SBC Serve Sunday (August 11)
- Global Hunger Sunday (August 25)
* Denotes events in which WMU personnel may be taking photographs, capturing video and/or recording. You may be photographed, filmed or recorded individually or as part of an audience. Your attendance constitutes your consent to such photography, filming and/or recording for any use, in any and all media.
Mental health awareness events and emphases are highlighted as a part of WMU’s Project HELP: Mental Health initiative. Learn more about Project HELP: Mental Health here.
A complete listing of the 2023 SBC Calendar of Activities is available at sbc.net/calendar.