Prayer guideComing soon
A Weekly Prayer Rhythm
A seven-day pattern taking one ministry area each day — for individuals, families or small groups.
For: Individuals, families, small groups
For churches
Give together as a congregation
An offering, a season of giving, or an annual commitment — with everything you need to explain the work accurately and respectfully.
Ways a church can give
Four patterns that work well
We have seen all four sustained over years. The regular commitment is the one that helps most.
A single dedicated offering
One service, one offering, with a short talk and prayer material we provide. The simplest place to start, and often how a longer relationship begins.
A season of giving
Lent, Advent or a set month, with weekly material so the congregation follows one community's story through the season rather than hearing a single appeal.
A regular annual commitment
A figure in the church's mission budget each year. Far and away the most useful to us, because it lets us make multi-year commitments to communities.
Linked to a partnership
Giving as part of a genuine two-way relationship with a specific partner community — praying for them by name, hearing from them, learning from them.
What we provide
Everything you need, and nothing you have to use
- A short talk outline, with speaker notes
- Intercessions and a responsive reading
- Suggested scriptures and song or hymn themes
- Slides and printable material for the service
- Guidance on speaking about poverty without demeaning anyone
- Specific prayer requests from a named partner community
- A speaker from our team, where we can reach you
We will not send you a pressure pack
Our material contains no guilt-based copy, no images of children in distress, and no artificial deadlines. If your church decides not to take an offering after looking at it, that is a completely acceptable outcome and we will not chase you.
On language and images
Describing a community as having “nothing” is almost always factually wrong — it has land, labour, skills, relationships and organisation, which is considerably more than nothing.
Our material is written to avoid that framing, and the advocacy toolkit explains the reasoning in more detail. It matters more than enthusiasm.
Resources
Material for churches
Downloads are not yet available on this site — each resource page describes what is coming.
Church toolkitComing soon
Prayer Guide for Churches
Liturgy, intercessions and service material for congregations praying for partner communities.
For: Church leaders, worship teams
Church toolkitComing soon
Church Partnership Pack
Everything a congregation needs to consider, start and sustain a partnership with a community.
For: Church leadership teams
Prayer guideComing soon
Lament and Trauma: A Pastoral Guide
For leaders supporting people carrying loss — why grief precedes resolution, and how to sit with it.
For: Pastors, pastoral workers, volunteers
Get in touch
Tell us about your church
We will send the material you need and, if you would like, arrange a conversation with someone from our team.
From partner churches
What churches tell us
Supporting congregations consistently say they were changed more by the relationship than their partners were.
“We were already serving our neighbours with almost nothing. What changed was the training, and being trusted to make the decisions ourselves.”
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“I expected to be useful. I did not expect to be changed. The relationship runs in both directions, which is the whole point.”
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