September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month!!!!! Today is September 18, 2011. Today is Sickle Sabbath Sunday 2011. Sickle Sabbath Sunday is a national faith day to raise awareness and charitable giving within congregations for sickle cell disease. This is a health initiative is by the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education "Solidarity with the Savior through His Word", which is an auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. As a national partner of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education encourages our member churches to conduct sickle cell awareness and education activities on Sickle Sabbath Sunday.