Drama invites people into the gospel

  Wellington staff worker Max Rideout took up the challenge to be part of the first two performances of The Mark Drama. It’s an interactive, 90-minute performance of Jesus’ life as recorded by Mark. The actors are not professionals. As invitations go out to...


Investing a life in Italy

In the summer of 2013, Zach Smith was on the verge of entering student ministry. He told his story in Canvas that year—how he’d met IFES workers at an Urbana conference, had a burden for seeing a stronger gospel witness in Europe, and was applying for a two-year stint...


Recovering hope

Answers to an epidemic of isolation and mental suffering are as close as our own two hands. Esther and Wilson Chan share their perspective as church and community members who come alongside young people. Wilson is the Youth Minister at St George’s in Epsom, Auckland....


Auckland enters a new era

  When the TSCF board invited me to come to New Zealand in 2004 I explained to them that, while I was interested in the opportunity, the scale of the challenge was too great for one person to make a significant difference. Out of this conversation grew the idea of a...


Japan’s faithful few

Rosanne Jones, from the UK, works with the student movement in Japan under the umbrella of OMF. She joined TSCF’s annual Staff and Families Conference while visiting New Zealand in January, and encouraged the team with news from another corner of the Pacific.  ...