Beth Harper, our TEAR Fund Church Advocates Manager talks about her interesting past, her current role and what she hopes to achieve in that area.

On July 25th, thousands of people all around the world united at demonstrations to show their support for the current political struggle in Iran and those opposed to the current theocratic government. Rallies were held in about 100 cities around the globe. I happened to be in San Francisco as the event unfolded. At the time I was completely unaware that it was happening and was wandering around in the hours leading up to my [...]

Former TEAR Fund Programmes Officer Marty Pritchard talks about his experiences in Afghanistan and Darfur.

Around 30% of our planet’s population are currently Christian, that’s over 2 billion people who in some way recognize Jesus as the son of God and the saviour of all, that’s 2 billion shades of belief in a vast spectrum of faith. If we were all wise and mature we would celebrate our diversity and use our enormous, united influence to save our world but sadly we are quarrelsome, opinionated, pig headed humans and the [...]

If you’ve followed this blog recently, you will know I spent some time at a Compassion project in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Compassion is a TEAR Fund partner. They are the organisation we do child sponsorship through. I thought I would share a slideshow of my favourite photos that I took while at the project. The kids were wonderful and the experience will be etched in my memory as a highlight forever. Hopefully [...]

Esther Ducai -TEAR Fund’s International Programmes Director talks about working with our indigenous partners and shares some 3rd world experiences.

In chapter 10 of his gospel (or not far into the Jerusalem journey narrative as he would have seen it – he didn’t divide his gospel into ‘chapter and verse’), Luke presents an exchange between an expert in the Law (of Moses – i.e. Torah) and Jesus.  The lawyer is first trying to ‘test’ Jesus, and uses a fairly standard question of the day to do so. Both Matthew and Mark also record this question [...]

To read the post that provides the context to the following writing, click here. This trip that has me in Nairobi, Kenya, is one that I am doing on my own. Here at the Micah Network conference I have been forming some good acquaintances very quickly, some that I hope will turn into good global friendships, but there is no-one that I am very familiar with to the point where I can offload my experiences [...]

I have been in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, for a few days now. Up until this trip, my experience of the world outside of New Zealand had only been Brisbane (Australia) for a week to attend a conference I did not appreciate at all. This trip has seen me stop briefly in Johannesburg (South Africa), has me in Nairobi for a week, then takes me to London (UK), Colorado Springs (US) and then out [...]

On July 9th, Ian McInnes from TEAR Fund attended a one day conference at Laidlaw College exploring biblical perspectives on the land of Israel.  This is his brief summary of the day Israel The national of Israel and its modern day boarders raise strong opinions within the church and the world beyond. Israel’s capital Jerusalem and in particularly the Temple Mount – on which the Dome of the Rock sits – is perhaps the most [...]