Fresh faces in Waikato

Why do I exist? Why is the Bible so controversial and open to individual interpretation? How does feminism fit into a biblical worldview? Students at Taurima Hostel looked into these tricky questions, along with a range of other issues, as part of a hostel-based study...

Mustard-seed work

Little did I know what putting up posters around campus would lead to. In October 2015 I started a group for Christian students and inquirers at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic in Tauranga. Since then it has been renamed Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (merging with...

Teaming up with InterVarsity to reach Dunedin

After Summit ended in early July, the team of staff and students from InterVarsity in Northern California spent a couple of weeks in Dunedin. They brought an outreach tool that they use on their campuses called “The Story Project.” Along with TSCF students, they set...

Seeing Lincoln CF through a grad’s eyes

The nature of TSCF staff work is that we have to say goodbye to many people every year. The turnover of student missionaries is, from the temporary nature of study, high. Students are part of Christian fellowships for a few years, then they graduate and work...

Wellington team expands

Kim Shaw Wellington staff worker Kim Shaw studied at Canterbury University in the 1990s (when she was Kim Irving), serving as a leader in the CU. She says it caused her to think deeply about the Bible and how its message would shape her life beyond university. “It...

Growing Palmy connections

Palmy is still Palmy. It’s never too hot, never too cold. It just is. But even though the weather and the city are not that exciting, students do a great job making opportunities to share Jesus with their friends. Our focus this year has been helping students...