Issues: Relationships <Back to previous page Welcome to Tearfund Learn's blog. It's a lively and diverse forum where voices from around the world share their stories, learning and insights. Love our Blog? Sign up to Tearfund Learn to get our latest blogs, learning and resources. Subscribe Active Filters: By Tearfund Learn, 22 May 2020 Covid-19: 10 ways to support older people Churches are in a good position to respond to the rights and needs of older people in direct conversation with them, and to advocate for them, given… Read More By Sas Conradie, 15 May 2020 Learning to live the lifestyle of Jesus Covid-19 (new coronavirus disease) is causing huge stress on poor people and communities who already struggle to have food to eat, water to drink or… Read More By Sas Conradie, 08 April 2020 Finding Easter’s message in the slums of life As I reflect on what happened to Jesus on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I think about Nathaniel. Easy-going and articulate, it is easy to get the… Read More By Rev Josephine Chavaseki and Dr Sas Conradie, 28 November 2019 Churches meet community needs in Nairobi slums Redeemed Gospel Church Pipeline (RGCP) sits in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi where more than 500,000 people live in extremely poor… Read More By Naomi Foxwood, 16 October 2019 7 ways to support youth movements which change the world Across the world young people are rising up. They are demanding action on the environmental destruction, poverty and injustice that threaten their… Read More By Nick Wyke, 19 September 2019 Review of Footsteps 109: Youth The cover of the new Footsteps magazine is full of hope. It features nine young people from all corners of the globe and makes me curious to know the… Read More By Theo Shaw, 06 September 2019 Love inspires a young man to help build a church I have heard a lot of transformational stories, but none has been quite so engaging as Albert’s. We met Albert on a field visit to Good News Baptist… Read More By Rachel Burnet, 02 August 2019 What does it take to make a ‘lazy’ man travel far? When Costa heard his name announced at church one Sunday he didn’t know what to expect. He was asked to stay behind after the worship service at… Read More By Lahai Amara, 03 July 2019 Church programme brings harmony into the home Kadiatu Mansaray and her husband, Sarrah Mansaray, were known to community members as the couple who always argued with each other. They lived in the… Read More By Sas Conradie, 20 June 2019 Responding to children living with disabilities When my wife and I decided to get married, both of us were still students. So we had to find work that could put food on the table and a roof over… Read More By Nick Wyke, 23 May 2019 Review of Footsteps 108: Living with disability When was the last time you saw someone with a disability on the cover of a magazine? Disability is all too often hidden away. Sadly, this is… Read More By Kal-Ignabet Pakagochy, 09 May 2019 Want better decision-making? Invite the women Ignekalbo Gilbert is proud that many positive changes have taken place in his village since it started a church and community mobilisation process… Read More By Desmond Lesjane and Adrienne Blomberg, 31 March 2017 Grace’s story: surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Liberia Grace, a 28-year-old woman from Nimba county in north-central Liberia, was living in a very abusive relationship with a 30-year-old male from Gbahn.… Read More By Elaine Storkey, 25 November 2015 Scars across humanity: An interview with Elaine Storkey Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day focused on raising awareness of the fact that women around the… Read More Load More Posts
By Tearfund Learn, 22 May 2020 Covid-19: 10 ways to support older people Churches are in a good position to respond to the rights and needs of older people in direct conversation with them, and to advocate for them, given… Read More
By Sas Conradie, 15 May 2020 Learning to live the lifestyle of Jesus Covid-19 (new coronavirus disease) is causing huge stress on poor people and communities who already struggle to have food to eat, water to drink or… Read More
By Sas Conradie, 08 April 2020 Finding Easter’s message in the slums of life As I reflect on what happened to Jesus on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I think about Nathaniel. Easy-going and articulate, it is easy to get the… Read More
By Rev Josephine Chavaseki and Dr Sas Conradie, 28 November 2019 Churches meet community needs in Nairobi slums Redeemed Gospel Church Pipeline (RGCP) sits in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi where more than 500,000 people live in extremely poor… Read More
By Naomi Foxwood, 16 October 2019 7 ways to support youth movements which change the world Across the world young people are rising up. They are demanding action on the environmental destruction, poverty and injustice that threaten their… Read More
By Nick Wyke, 19 September 2019 Review of Footsteps 109: Youth The cover of the new Footsteps magazine is full of hope. It features nine young people from all corners of the globe and makes me curious to know the… Read More
By Theo Shaw, 06 September 2019 Love inspires a young man to help build a church I have heard a lot of transformational stories, but none has been quite so engaging as Albert’s. We met Albert on a field visit to Good News Baptist… Read More
By Rachel Burnet, 02 August 2019 What does it take to make a ‘lazy’ man travel far? When Costa heard his name announced at church one Sunday he didn’t know what to expect. He was asked to stay behind after the worship service at… Read More
By Lahai Amara, 03 July 2019 Church programme brings harmony into the home Kadiatu Mansaray and her husband, Sarrah Mansaray, were known to community members as the couple who always argued with each other. They lived in the… Read More
By Sas Conradie, 20 June 2019 Responding to children living with disabilities When my wife and I decided to get married, both of us were still students. So we had to find work that could put food on the table and a roof over… Read More
By Nick Wyke, 23 May 2019 Review of Footsteps 108: Living with disability When was the last time you saw someone with a disability on the cover of a magazine? Disability is all too often hidden away. Sadly, this is… Read More
By Kal-Ignabet Pakagochy, 09 May 2019 Want better decision-making? Invite the women Ignekalbo Gilbert is proud that many positive changes have taken place in his village since it started a church and community mobilisation process… Read More
By Desmond Lesjane and Adrienne Blomberg, 31 March 2017 Grace’s story: surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Liberia Grace, a 28-year-old woman from Nimba county in north-central Liberia, was living in a very abusive relationship with a 30-year-old male from Gbahn.… Read More
By Elaine Storkey, 25 November 2015 Scars across humanity: An interview with Elaine Storkey Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day focused on raising awareness of the fact that women around the… Read More