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Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.
—Prov 3:13-14

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Just Living

Join the dots between your faith and global injustices, to live in sympathy with the world’s needs

  • Good Lives Project – An Experiment in Faith

    Good Lives Project – An Experiment in Faith

    An experiment of faith in action. This seven-part small group study seeks to help us live more responsibly in everything from personal and family finances to day-to-day practices. In the words of the Apostle Paul, it is an attempt to 'conform no longer to the present pattern of the world’ (Romans 12:2).

    It suggests commitments that can be made personally or as a household or family, in the areas of consumption, work and leisure, giving, environment, debt, and investments.

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  • Living Simply

    Living Simply

    An oldie but a goodie. This classic booklet of 10 studies challenges us to simplify our lives on behalf of the poor and choose more satisfying life principles. With global issues in mind, this booklet gives the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of living simply, freeing up time and money for causes you believe in.

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  • '​Discover' Bible study series

    '​Discover' Bible study series

    Be challenged and inspired by more than 90 Bible studies.
    See what God says about poverty and justice.

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Restore

Our humanitarian work in disasters and peace-building. We believe we're called to be peacemakers and to respond to those in need.

  • Climate Change Booklet

    Climate Change Booklet

    Climate change is perhaps the greatest moral crisis of our time. The people most harmed will be those in Tearfund partner countries. From theology, science and our response, this booklet is a great one-stop shop. (Written by our partner, A Rocha)

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  • Natural Disasters (Digging Deeper)

    Natural Disasters (Digging Deeper)

    This resource provides a quick overview of our work responding to and preparing for natural disasters. As global weather patterns become increasingly extreme, our work in this sector is growing ever more important.

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  • Restoring Hope

    Restoring Hope booklet

    Restoring Hope is a study for individuals or groups interested in the ‘humanitarian’ work that organisations like Tearfund do. Covering disasters, conflict situations and peace-making, it will also challenge you to personally act.

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  • Insight: Climate Change

    Insight: Climate Change

    The last three years have been the hottest on record. In this resource we explain some of the life-threatening impacts of climate change on poorer countries that contributed least to the problem. This includes the loss of land and crops, the spread of heat-related diseases, and water shortages. We also show how you can help make changes to prevent the worst effects.

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  • Insight: War in Syria

    Insight: War in Syria

    The biggest humanitarian disaster of many of our lifetimes, the Syrian conflict is hugely complex and offers no simple solutions. This resource provides a brief explanation of the history of the conflict, explores the ongoing human cost of the War, and explains the work that Tearfund is doing and how you can help.

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  • Insight: Refugee Support

    Insight: Refugee Support

    No longer a passing spike, the refugee crisis is a new normal. New Zealand accepts 1000 refugees a year and each family needs community support. Find out how your family or your church can support new arrivals.

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  • Insight: Displaced Persons

    Insight: Displaced Persons

    Refugees and ‘internally displaced persons’ flee from conflict, persecution, drought and increasingly from the effects of climate change. Where are they from, what’s driving the increase refugees and what can we do? This insight introduces you to these issues.

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Nourish

Our work meeting peoples’ basic needs in water, health and education

  • Water and Health (Digging Deeper)

    Water and Health (Digging Deeper)

    Did you know that more people have access to cell phones than adequate sanitation? This resource provides a brief overview of Tearfund’s Nourish sector, which addresses water and health. We look at the Bible’s discussions of basic needs, and explore the ways you can help in this area.

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Sponsor

Our child sponsorship work

  • Sponsorship Quick Start Guide

    Sponsorship Quick Start Guide

    Have you just started your child sponsorship journey with us? This short guide will give you all the information you need to know right now about sponsorship. To make the biggest impact, we believe that sponsors who invest in a relationship through writing to and praying for their child can truly help to break the cycle of poverty; releasing them into their true potential.

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Protect

Modern slavery and trafficking: what are the issues and what are we doing about them?

  • An Introduction to Human Slavery Tearfund NZ

    An Introduction to Human Slavery Tearfund NZ

    By Reverend Francis Ritchie, 2014

    Slavery predates human records and was institutionalised in cultures around the world from the earliest days of humanity. Over time though, it has been recognised that slavery breaches, and is an abuse of basic human rights. Modern understandings of it stem specifically from the evolution and eventual abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

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  • Agents of Freedom

    Agents of Freedom

    We believe we are called to protect the vulnerable from modern slavery and exploitation.

    This booklet is a secular guide to anti-trafficking and exploitation work around the world, and an introduction to Tearfund’s work combatting modern slavery.

     

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  • Anti-Trafficking (Digging Deeper)

    Anti-Trafficking (Digging Deeper)

    This resource provides a quick overview of our work preventing vulnerable people from being trafficked, prosecuting trafficking offenders, and rehabilitating survivors of modern slavery.

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  • No Longer Slaves – Studies on Human Trafficking

    No Longer Slaves – Studies on Human Trafficking

    Ask us for one – or 10 – FREE copies of our introductory group study guide on the horrid evil that is human trafficking and modern slavery. The booklet features five studies that show individuals and groups the facts of modern slavery, the history of abolition, and what two of Tearfund’s partner organisations who work on the frontline are doing.

    It’s all wrapped in Biblical principles and a framework for understanding it, and concludes with what we can all do about it.

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  • Break the Cycle

    Break the Cycle

    The poverty cycle can best be defined as the set of factors or events by which poverty, once started, is likely to continue unless there is outside intervention. In these three studies, we examine the causes of global poverty, how to use our voices and advocate for the poor, and how to respond to poverty in a biblical way.

    • Study 1: Experiencing Poverty.
    • Study 2: Breaking the Cycle.
    • Study 3: God's Plan – Our Response.

     

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  • Rescued (Reflection)

    Rescued (Reflection)

    This five day reflection series tells real stories of people who were trafficked into modern slavery and then rescued. It can be a catalyst for thought and change in your life.

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  • One Helping – Cookbook

    One Helping – Cookbook

    Our exciting new cookbook has recipes all 75 cents or less per helping. It’s packed full of creative dishes from top Kiwi chefs including Ray McVinnie, Annabel Langbein, Julie Le Clerc, Simon Gault, Nadia Lim, and Dr. Libby Weaver. This book makes a great cookbook any time of year for those who want to eat healthy and save money.

    All profits from the sale of One Helping, goes to support Tearfund's work of rehabilitating and rescuing victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in Southeast Asia.

    If you'd like to order One Helping, call one of our friendly team on 0800 800 777 or email enquiries@tearfund.org.nz

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Empower

Our work empowering people to help themselves

  • Empower Booklet

    Empower Booklet

    Studies in the power of social and livelihood development

    We believe people have a right to make a living to provide for themselves and their family, so we empower them to do so. By providing communities with the resources and education to become self-supporting, we enable them to find local, long-term solutions to poverty. This booklet shares our conviction about how important this work is and the approaches we use to empower communities.

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  • Empower Through Enterprise (Digging Deeper)

    Empower Through Enterprise (Digging Deeper)

    This cause is focussed around empowering people to help themselves, and one of the key ways we do this is through encouraging enterprise. This resource provides a brief overview of our work in this area, and explains how our Self-Help-Groups are empowering people and communities in the some of the world’s poorest areas.

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  • Feeding the World

    Feeding the World

    How do we feed the world’s people while looking after the earth’s ability to sustain us? For secular audiences, this booklet tackles the issues of food security and looks at how Tearfund’s food and livelihood projects provide communities with the resources to become self-supporting.

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  • Insight: Small Holder Farming

    Insight: Small Holder Farming

    Despite producing more than enough food to feed the world’s population, starvation and poor nutrition remain major issues across the developing world. This resource explores some of the systemic factors that drive food insecurity, and how we can challenge these issues.

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  • Insight: Climate Smart Agriculture

    Insight: Climate Smart Agriculture

    We face the paradox of needing to produce more food to respond to the world’s ever growing population, while also decreasing our carbon emissions. This resource discusses Climate Smart Agriculture, and the steps that we can take to produce food more efficiently and more sustainably.

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  • The Gospel and Justice

    The Gospel and Justice

    This workshop explores how justice is a central theme in the Gospel.

    The gospel is not just about life after death. It can only be understood if we see that God is also concerned with justice here and now. We look at Jesus’ own practice and ask what it means to follow him in the light of this. We’ll be challenged to uncover our own hearts for fighting injustice and find some ways to get started. The workshop will be interactive and exploratory; come with your mind and heart open. 

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  • Global Development: The Why, The How, and The Where Next

    Global Development: The Why, The How, and The Where Next

    How can we best approach the question of global inequalities and poverty in the developing world?

    After 70 years of aid, what has been achieved, what mistakes have happened, and where is hope? Tearfund will take you on a journey through the history of ‘development’ and the ideas that have driven it, while reflecting on the way poorer countries have been perceived and the role of Christian theology of mission in development. 

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  • Request a speaker

    Request a speaker

    Tearfund speakers are available to speak to churches, youth groups, home groups, schools and universities on issues related to our work.

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