Our Mission
A woman watched her children color at the table. They were drawing people, stick figures with yellow hair and blue eyes, every one of them. She thought about the more than 3,000 language groups who had never heard the name of Jesus. She thought about the Ashaninka children on the banks of Peru's Ene River and the Malay Muslim kids on Christmas Island. Her own children didn't know they existed.
That needed to change.
Missions for Kids was born from that moment, a conviction that children should see the world as God sees it. Not as a map of countries, but as stories of peoples, languages, and places that matter to God.
Who We Are
Missions for Kids was created by Hannah Hagarty, mom of ten children, who moved to West Asia to serve with her husband and seven of their children. They packed their lives into suitcases, learned a new language, navigated a new culture, and watched their kids adapt to a world that looked nothing like the one they were born into. When a crisis in the States brought them back stateside, they discovered that God's call on their lives had not ended. It only changed shape. Hannah now pours her missionary, art, and writing experience into creating resources that help other families see the nations the way God sees them.
Hannah writes about the missionary life and the calling of senders as a guest contributor to ChildDiscipleship.com (an Awana ministry), Missionary.com, WonderLetters.com, GCDiscipleship.com, and PCA Women's Ministry. Sean brings decades of church leadership experience. Together with contributing author Ben Hagarty, they produce the articles, people group profiles, and educational resources on this site.
Have a question or want to connect? Reach us at [email protected].
What We Believe
God's heart beats for every nation, tribe, and tongue. In Revelation 7:9 (ESV), John sees a great multitude "from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne." That vision is not just a future hope; it is a present call. We believe children are never too young to hear it.
We believe in the power of ordinary faithfulness. Most families will not move overseas. But every family can pray by name for an unreached language group at the dinner table. Every child can learn to say "hello" in Kazakh, taste injera bread from Ethiopia, or write a letter for a missionary their church supports. These small, ordinary acts of wonder are how the gospel moves.
What We Do
Missions for Kids is a free educational resource for families, homeschool groups, and churches. We publish in-depth guides on teaching children about world missions, create profiles of unreached language groups written at a child's reading level, and offer printable activities (prayer cards, coloring pages, lesson plans, and cultural crafts) to bring the nations into your home.
Everything on this site is free and always will be.
Wonder Letters
Our sister project, Wonder Letters, delivers a hand-illustrated physical letter to your child's mailbox each month. Each letter is written from the perspective of a child living among an unreached language group, complete with original watercolor artwork, cultural activities, vocabulary words, and prayer guides. Through each letter, a child's wonder for the world God created and wants to hear about Him begins.
Welcome to the Wonder.