Rongopai’s good news

Matthew Joils is a Fine Arts student at the University of Canterbury who is majoring in film. He’s in his fourth year, and recently served as president of the Christian Union on campus. This year he picked up two copies of Rongopai, the special edition of the gospel...

Refueling the tank

My car is 15 years old. I understand that this will on occasion involve paying for repairs. TSCF is 80 years old, and one of this year’s challenges has been paying to fix a few long term issues. We refreshed our website, moved to a new finance system and are...

News – winter 2016

2016-2017 student representatives Three students sit on TSCF’s board, representing students around the country. Their perspective as young adults, Christian leaders, and members of diverse communities is a great asset. During SPARC, students voted in their new...

Ethics

  There is a scene near the end of The Blindside movie where Sandra Bullock’s character says to her son as he is about to start university, “Michael – if you get a girl pregnant out of wedlock, I will cut off part of your body.” (The actual quote is more explicit...

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.  ...