Go Love the World

Love Understands

Support people from different backgrounds come together.

People from all over the world call Australia home. This provides many opportunities to connect with people from other cultures, faiths and ethnicities right outside our front door. The ‘rest of the world’ is right here with us.

In fact, ‘They’ are ‘Us’!

We help people step across cultural, faith and language divides, building mutual understanding and respect.

A key area of our work is with young people and students. Sadly, one third of school students in Australia still experience racial bullying and one fifth experience racial bullying every day*!

CHAT (Cultural Hearing Asking Telling)

is a program where young people build respect, understanding and appreciation for one another, across cultural divides.

Our team runs CHAT with a Christian perspective, training leaders and developing materials for young people in schools and church groups.

In the Middle East, Interserve workers run a business

that intentionally employs people from two different groups who typically avoid any meaningful interaction. This business is creating a work environment and culture to address hostility and foster respect and understanding. It also addresses inequality by providing upskilling and a livelihood for people from poor or marginalised backgrounds.

As followers of Jesus, we believe that “there is no fear in Love, but perfect Love drives out fear.” (1 John 4:18).

That’s why we work to help people find common ground, so that fear and division can make way for Love and Peace. Together, we can create spaces where Love is made tangible, barriers are broken down and strangers become friends.

Before CHAT I didn’t know how to interact with others about conflicting ideas. CHAT taught me ways to interact with people from all different cultures with respect and understanding.

Kids who had never met were interacting around complex issues pretty quickly.  You don’t see that a lot in public settingsespecially in terms of talking about faith and culture.

We need your help for this important work to continue. Will you give today?

When the world is hurting, Love takes action.

Love Heals

Healthcare for people in remote or poor communities.

Love Risks

Equipping followers of Jesus to live out their faith.

Our Stories

* This page references: Priest N, Perry R, Paradies Y, Ferdinand A and Kelaher M. (2014) Experiences of Racism, Racial/Ethnic Attitudes, Motivated Fairness and Mental Health Outcomes among Primary and Secondary School Students. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. In press.

Go Love the World

Contact us: Phone: 1800 067 100.  Email: info@interserve.org.au

Interserve Australia Limited – ABN 86 632 173 114 – Interserve Development Limited – ABN 12 041 298 204

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