St. Jude Sunday of Hope is a program that allows congregations across the country to unite as a body of believers in support of St. Jude. Since 2008, we have been blessed to have more than 600 churches participate in the program and raise more than $2.1 million. Through St. Jude Sunday of Hope, congregations choose one Sunday to show their support to the patients of at St. Jude by giving a special offering of love. The program is easy to implement and has a minimal time commitment. St. Jude will provide all of the materials necessary to implement the program including posters, St. Jude patient stories and materials to collect donations. A local St. Jude staff member will help coordinate your church’s efforts. He or she will be responsible for ordering the materials and assisting with the planning and implementing of your church’s St. Jude Sunday of Hope.
How can you help?
During the months of January–September, you and your congregation can help in the fight against childhood diseases by hosting a St. Jude Sunday of Hope. On one Sunday, the members of your church will have the opportunity to make a special offering to St. Jude. By joining the program, you are uniting as a community of believers to give the gift of life and hope to children around the world.
What are the benefits of this program?
St. Jude will provide all materials necessary to implement the St. Jude Sunday of Hope program. There will be no costs associated with your participation.
Participation in this program will allow your church to have the opportunity to build a relationship with a world-renowned facility dedicated to children and known internationally for its research and success.
Church members will experience a feeling of goodwill, and associate their giving with a trustworthy organization.
Your church will demonstrate its commitment to community by allowing the members of your congregation to come together in support of St. Jude.
No place like St. Jude
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since the hospital opened in 1962. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude is where doctors often send their toughest cases because St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates from some of the most aggressive childhood cancers. And families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. St. Jude is also a leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease, with one of the largest pediatric sickle cell disease programs in the country. St. Jude has researched sickle cell disease since the hospital opened. In fact, the first research grant received by St. Jude was for work in sickle cell anemia. Children from all 50 states and around the world come to St. Jude for treatment. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.