Imagine that you are an operator at a nuclear power plant, and you receive an alert that toxic gases have leaked and are on their way to the cafeteria, where the gases will imminently and certainly kill all five people inside. You have the power to flick a switch and divert the gases to an office with a single person working. Would you flick the switch? Now imagine that you are tramping the Tongariro Crossing. [...]

Frank chats with Massey University Chaplain Justin Cherry about his work and what led him into it.

Burma (also known as the Union of Myanmar) is a country we hear little about. Under military rule since 1962, the country is dominated by an oppressive regime resulting in a State of fear. Democratic elections have been planned for 2010, but they are a farce, or – as described by the US government – a mockery.  The leader of the democratic movement Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for many years, [...]

Tear Fund’s Advocate Manager – Beth Harper – talks about the Insight Tour she recently led to visit our partners in India.

A member of the TEAR Fund International Programming Team talks about the situation in Kyrgyzstan and central Asia, plus his recent travels.

TEAR Fund NZ’s senior Programme Officer is currently in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. He is there serving our partner, Tearfund UK, and will be acting as the Director of their Disaster Response Team as they go about establishing their work in the area over the next few months. Ian has kindly agreed to share his experience through regular blog updates. All the images and writing are contributed solely by Ian. I moved quickly out [...]

Sue Braithwaite, TEAR Fund’s Resource Development Advisor talks about her recent trip to India and her seminars for elderly supporters around Aotearoa.

TEAR Fund’s Easter Focus for 2010 has been empowering women in the slums of India, specifically focusing on the work of our partner, Saahasee in the Bhiwandi area on the outskirts of Mumbai. Recently a group of our advocates had an opportunity to visit that project. One of the them was Carl. This is Carl’s reflection on that visit. It includes a gallery of his images at the end of the article. In March I [...]

It has been interesting following one of the conversations over at the Aotearoa (NZ) blog Not PC, run by Peter Creswell. It seems that Peter has a real and very understandable issue with Christianity and has used the controversy around Easter trading laws to vent that issue. Allow me to state right from the beginning that I am a Christian who believes in the life of Jesus as God in human form, the crucifixion and [...]

In the lead up to (and during) Easter we have been putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions are also available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and have been played on New Zealand’s Rhema. The Lord is risen. He is risen indeed! The resurrection of Jesus was an amazing new beginning. Evil had been defeated through the cross and death no longer held its sting. In the resurrection [...]