Coffee-free Advent
We are giving up coffee for Advent so that refugees and asylum seekers can share a cuppa. Coffee is one of our favourite things and we are fairly dependent on it daily, but we want to show our commitment to helping others by choosing not to drink coffee during Advent (1-24 December). No coffee from…
Read MoreIf it is a Flower, it is a Cauliflower! How to grow fruit and vegetables in Sandy Soil (Willetton).
Access to high quality health care services can be a real struggle for people living in remote or poor communities. Addressing inequalities that affect health outcomes is fundamental to ensuring all have access to respectful and high-quality health care. Interserve partners with local hospital and healthcare providers in Asia and the Arab World providing wholistic,…
Read MoreWine Tasting Evening
We love wine, but we also love justice for all. We are passionate about gender issues and women and men working together to overcome abuse. We are thankful for all the Interserve workers serving communities and helping them promote peace-making, and facilitating healing and mutual respect. We’re asking that this opportunity to catch up with…
Read MoreEmergency food relief in a conflict zone 2019
Ongoing armed conflict is the main driver of this food insecurity, limiting people’s ability to access the food they need to survive. The conflict has precipitated an economic collapse that has further exacerbated the food security crisis. Food prices have sky-rocketed, compounded by reduced access. Unemployment rates have also soared, leaving basic foods unaffordable for…
Read MoreCommunity Centre for Refugees
How does an individual, a family and a community begin to heal from trauma? What does it look like for people to flourish after profound suffering and displacement? At present, there are more than four million registered displaced people living in our country in West Asia, primarily from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Somalia. While…
Read MoreConnect Street Work
Most problems don’t have simple answers. They require long-term, far reaching and ultimately loving responses. Most problems don’t settle for only affecting an individual but permeate into the lives of families and communities. Life can get complicated and messy. But God calls us into these places. In the poor areas of Phnom Penh, drug use…
Read MoreRok Kern local team member
Many vulnerable children live in orphanages in Cambodia, often because people genuinely believe it is the best thing for them. Sadly, research tells us the opposite is true. Children can face long-term negative effects from living in an institution and as a result of “voluntourism”. As one of the largest family-based care NGOs in Cambodia,…
Read MoreFinding Treasure: Romans
Imagine a very young local church in an unsympathetic context, where many have believed but both leaders and people are at very early stages of understanding the faith. How helpful it would be to have some helpful Bible commentaries. In this project we have been publishing the very accessible New Testament for Everyone commentaries by…
Read MoreWhat I need for winter
A white Christmas might sound appealing for those of us sweating through the Aussie summer, but the reality for many of the millions of refugees and people seeking asylum in our country in West Asia is that winter is a particularly challenging time of year. The mercury stays below zero for weeks, even months at…
Read MoreNew ways of thinking
The recent surge in availability of cheap smartphones and the expansion of mobile networks has meant that many Arabic speaking people, particularly in less affluent, more populous countries like Egypt and Yemen, have skipped computers and moved straight to smart phones and almost universal uptake of social media. In fact, the uprisings of the Arab…
Read MoreNobody’s a stranger
Today’s children will become adults of a truly culturally-diverse world. Already, schools are witnessing challenges that can lead to exclusion and depression for new students arriving from overseas. Kids aren’t mean, they often just don’t know how to engage in their changing world. School students desperately need to grow in their understanding of intercultural issues;…
Read MoreFinding Treasure: Acts
Imagine a very young local church in an unsympathetic context, where many have believed but both leaders and people are at very early stages of understanding the faith. How helpful it would be to have some helpful Bible commentaries. In this project we have been publishing the very accessible New Testament for Everyone commentaries by…
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