The ministry of being there
Simply sitting alongside the mother, hugging her, holding her baby, and showing love brought comfort.
Speak up for us
Each week I visit refugees who are being detained in the Immigration Detention Centre. Having left their country in fear of their lives, they now live in a country which does not recognise them or give them any legal rights. My fears pale in comparison.
Serving God without leaving home?
I am no hero of the faith, but I trust God used me as a stay-at-home mum.
What is home?
Home is a place.
Home is people.
Home is sacred.
Home is people.
Home is sacred.
A Prayer for Easter
Many Interserve Partners work in places where suffering is widespread, poverty is crushing or crises are escalating with no end in sight. Please pray with us.
A prayer for Christmas
Thank you for giving us your Son, this most precious gift.
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.
The housewife and the shopkeeper
Saule worked seven days a week, twelve hours a day. She worked hard to support her family back home. “What’s your dream, Saule? If you weren’t working in this job, what would you rather be doing?”
Excerpts of a journey
"You encouraged me. No one has ever encouraged me before."
Social work and software
Administrative things don’t sound particularly exciting, but they have knock-on effects for the quality of social work generally.
For such a time as this…
Millennials have a global mindset which gives them confidence for crossing cultural barriers.
When Mum and Dad migrate without you
In Thailand, one in five children don't live with their parents due to internal migration. Parents work long hours and live in basic conditions while their children remain in the care of relatives or orphanages. In partnership, Interserve Partners are proactively working to keep families together through wholistic support.
How ’bout them kids
TCKs need to have someone willing to listen to them and to speak for them.
Contextualisation or syncretism?
“It was their church that was at the brink of being birthed, and they must come up with their own contextualised way of conducting baptisms.”
Village to the city, and back again
One factor for why girls in villages do not go to school is because there aren’t any female teachers. We hoped to change this.
Faith, environment and mission
Caring for creation draws us closer to the Creator and helps us to practically and biblically love our neighbour.
Why not?
Sometimes I feel we concentrate so much on how we feel His call and asking Him, “why us?”, but maybe a different way of thinking is, “why not?” Why not go and serve alongside those who have no option of living in a safe and materially blessed society as we do. We feel that Father has given us 30 years of abundant blessings, so why not now use these blessings to bless others.
Go with God
My initial “call” came in response to human need. I attended a missions conference and the speaker told of the desperate need for the gospel among Muslim nations.
From one woman to another
She also told me how a woman’s purity affects her prayer and fasting. My friend is not able to pray or fast during her menstrual cycle. This is so different to me.
The gift of a voice
Speech therapy is largely unheard of in Cambodia. We have a vision for high quality, culturally-relevant services to the estimated 600,000 Cambodians with communication or swallowing difficulties.
Doing business, doing life
It piqued our interest that our city is known for being a ‘business’ city.
