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Our publication keeps you inspired, informed (so you can pray) and helps you understand how to practically live out Christ’s calling with us. Why the name “Te Whāriki”?

Our Resurrected Saviour

Our Resurrected Saviour

'The invisible yet overpowering scent of weed invaded my kitchen, and I knew that Afnan* and his friends were at their post, slouching and coughing on the crumbling wall nearby.   A bright-eyed, younger Afnan came to every church event until...

Open your eyes

Open your eyes

After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this world means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. John 9v6 In the city where we used to...

A Different way of doing medicine 

A Different way of doing medicine 

I was only fourteen when I decided I was going to become a medical missionary. I assumed I would be going to Africa – back then I thought all missionaries went to Africa.  I was surprised to learn that female medical personnel were most needed in Muslim...

A taxi driver with a searching heart

A taxi driver with a searching heart

What if God had appointed this taxi driver to hear the good news today?  I looked up and down the inner city street, suddenly quiet from the usual rush of traffic. I needed a taxi in a hurry and, in this city of over 60,000 taxi drivers, not one could be found. I...

Serving god without leaving home?

Serving god without leaving home?

I am no hero of the faith, but I trust God used me as a stay-at-home mum.  A few weeks before my family went to live overseas for the first time, I got a phone call. The caller was an older friend whom I respected. “Ruth”, she said to me, “I know we talk a lot...

Distant thunder & first spring petals

Distant thunder & first spring petals

“Should we tithe the money we earn from cheating?" “If I became a Christian, I would have to become an honest businesswoman - then where would my business be?” asked a woman in another city, who was discussing the implications of becoming a Christian.  ...

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