These ideas were collected from among thousands offered to honor children by their Namers.
- Donation to a charitable, or pro-life organization in the child’s name
- Plant a tree, plant a flower box for this child
- Celebrate the Feast Day for a child named after a saint….invite friends
- Blog about the project and tell the story of the names you gave
- Memorize 3 scriptures that speak of the value of children
- Give up my pillow for one night
- Help my brother clean his room….Clean up my room without being told
- Attend the Bishop’s monthly pro-life Mass
- Pray one hour in front of an abortion clinic, or make a First Friday holy hour
- Give a flock of chickens, a goat, or a calf to a needy family through Heifer International
- Host a dinner and tell your guests about the 50 Million Names project
- Embroider the name on a baby hat or blanket and donate to the neonatal intensive care unit
- Paint the name on a poster to hold up at March for Life
- Pray a rosary, novena, or other particular prayer for this child
- Send flowers in honor of this child to a women’s shelter, or to the person whose name you give to a child
- Make a pilgrimage to a site related to the child’s name
- Help clean up a cemetery, pray there for the people buried there, look for names to honor by giving them to babies at 50 Million Names
- Decorate a special, keepsake Christmas ornament and add the child’s name
- Serve at a soup kitchen, homeless shelter, or other ministry one hour, or one day, in this child’s honor
- Release helium balloons bearing the names you have given in a private ceremony of prayer and promise
- Ask for a Mass to be said in honor of this child
- Create a prayer card to enclose with letters, asking a friend to join you in honoring each child
- Write and share a poem, or song
- One day of a Novena for each of nine children named
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