6min 35sec @TearFund clip - The #Restoration Story

Text from youtube "Watch our latest film the Restoration Story where we explore Christians around the world are answering God’s call to restore relationships with him, with one another and with creation. We can do this through living differently, praying and speaking out against poverty, injustice and climate change. What part can you play? "

3min @tearfund clip - Giving God a Chance - David's Story

Text from youtube "Musician, Christian, Hero. In 1968, David became a Christian and one of Tearfund’s first supporters. David tells us why giving God a chance is a decision he’ll never regret. #WeWontStop "

1min 11sec @tearfund clip - We Won't Stop Until #Poverty Stops - Responding quickly, living generously, restoring relationships - join us

Text from youtube "Hundreds of thousands of Christians, motivated by the relentless love of Jesus, are on a journey with us to end extreme poverty. Working with local partners and churches we have seen incredible restoration all over the world. Together we can end extreme poverty. What part will you play? http://bit.ly/2FxoBpR "

2min 21sec animated @TearFund clip - Renew our #Food

All around the world Christians pray 'Give us today our daily bread' yet while we pray, a third of all food produced is never eaten. Watch this video to find out more about how taking action on food waste will help people living poverty around the world.

1 min 35sec clip from #tearfund - Devastating Beauty - An #Easter Poem by Gideon Heugh

On Friday my hope died. 
The sky wept itself dark
the ground broke apart 
and all creation cried 
for the bloodied innocence
hammered into a tree. 

There were whispers 
of a torn curtain
but they didn’t reach my ears
or mend my mangled heart
or stem the bitter tears
as we took
the body
down. 

On Saturday we grieved, 
hiding from the troops 
whom we’d once believed
would be overthrown 
by the carpenter’s boy, 
who had preached and fed
and healed, 
and was now dead. 

But then on Sunday – 
The devastating beauty
of that Sunday – 
when time and space
were blown out of shape
and angels wrapped
in electric grace
rolled the impossible away

'He is not here' 
they proclaimed 
for glory had risen 
our failings were forgiven
and the rules of life
and death were rewritten 
as an empty tomb declared, 
‘Love is alive.’

55sec #tearfund clip - 3 tips for a long life - from Natasha

Natasha thinks she may be over 100 years old – she’s lost count. But does she remember seeing her first motor car and first film show. And she remembers a time when the climate was reliable, harvests were plentiful and wildlife was abundant. 

 And amazingly, she’s still working on the land after all these years. She shares her memories and passes on some wisdom to us all.

1min 36sec #tearfund clip - Hunger Steals - The Church Gives #letsbeathunger

Hunger is a thief. It robs people of their freedom, ruins their self-esteem and wrecks their dreams. 

But there’s one thing that hunger didn’t count on: the church.  Together, we can push back against poverty and hunger.  

All around the world, local churches are leading their communities out of lives devastated by hunger and into lives filled with dignity, opportunity and strength. 

We want you to join us as together we empower local churches to release more people from hunger. You can help us provide training in innovative, sustainable farming techniques that could enable families to secure a hunger-free future – even in a challenging climate. 

Whatever hunger has taken, the church can restore. Because however strong hunger is, the church is stronger. And when people are freed from hunger, they can step into a life in which they don’t just survive but thrive. 

We are one body; one church. Together, we can share the gift of life and help people take back what hunger has stolen.

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 795 million people around the world have had their hope stolen by hunger. 

 You could free them up to live lives of security and plenty. #letsbeathunger 

http://www.tearfund.org/hungersteals

1min 22sec @TearFund clip - the #restless ones - together we are

In every city, every church, every class, there are young people with a passion to change the world. 

United in purpose, we will unite in person. 

Join us at our Celebrations in December. 

 Find out how to be there: https://www.tearfund.org/celebrate

meet kate - she's been part of something #extraordinary

the great #invitation - from #tearfund

no #child taken

the power of prayer

via the church sofa

the caterpillar effect

via digging a lot

in summary


is your God one who answers your prayers for green traffic lights because this is what God is about - arranging the traffic system on their behalf


we live in cocoons of our own making which block out the reality of a world that screams for some kind of change


how do we get past the myth that safety is happiness to understand that the comfort we seek suffocates


a butterfly cannot emerge form a cocoon without struggle


you only find life when you struggle


what if in building rhythms of life that face us with the world as it really is


 a way of living that challenges the suffocating comfort of our lives


so we can tear that cocoon a little and see thiu to the other side
- the child whose parent dies of HIV
- the reality of war


you get it, you don't understand it fully - but you just let it in


and that will slowly change you - its about living with open eyes


god is imagining a new world, and as god dreams we dream with him 


we can start to reach forward and try to haul the dream into the present