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Hope & Care
Practical, immediate support for people facing crisis — food, clean water, shelter and compassionate presence.
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Our work
Relief today. Renewal tomorrow. Restoration always.
Three commitments, held together in every community we serve. Each one is insufficient on its own, and separating them is how good intentions produce dependency.
Why all three
Each one on its own goes wrong in a predictable way
Relief alone becomes dependency. Repeated indefinitely, it quietly communicates to a community that it has nothing to contribute, and builds a relationship in which the only thing we ever do is arrive with things.
Renewal alone ignores the family with nothing to eat this week. Talking to someone about a five-year livelihoods plan while their child is unwell and the cupboard is empty is not strategic — it is inattentive.
Restoration alone spiritualises material need. Praying with someone about a problem you could help solve, and then leaving, is not the ministry described anywhere in the New Testament.
Held together they describe a whole response to a whole person. That is the argument for the model, and it is why we resist funding that requires us to pick one.
Today
Relief
Help that arrives in time, and arrives with respect
Some needs will not wait for a development plan. A family with nothing to eat this week needs food this week.
Relief is our response to that immediacy. It is deliberately limited in scope and deliberately generous in manner: we aim to meet the need in front of us quickly, and to do it in a way that leaves people with their dignity fully intact.
- Food and nutrition support
- Safe drinking water
- Community health care
- Shelter and essentials
- Care for children and caregivers
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Tomorrow
Renewal
The slower work of making crisis less likely next time
Relief answers what is happening now. Renewal asks why it happened, and what would have to change for it not to happen again.
This is the largest part of our programme work and the least dramatic. It involves savings groups meeting weekly for years, teachers slowly getting better at teaching reading, committees arguing about where a water point should go.
- Education and school access
- Savings and loan groups
- Vocational and business training
- Agriculture and food production
- Locally led community projects
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Always
Restoration
The part that makes us who we are
A community can have water, income and schooling and still be deeply broken. Wealth does not heal a family that has stopped speaking, or two groups who will not share a market.
Restoration is our name for the work of repairing relationships — between people and God, and between people and one another. It is the reason we are called Ministry of Reconciliation.
- Prayer and discipleship
- Local church partnership
- Mediation and peacebuilding
- Trauma healing and pastoral care
- Leadership formation
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Ministry areas
Ten areas of ministry
Every one of them delivered through partner churches and community leaders who live in the community.
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Education
Helping children and young people reach a classroom, stay in it, and leave with real options for their future.
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Community Development
Long-term, locally led change — where the community sets the priorities and owns the results.
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Family Support
Strengthening households so children can stay with the people who love them.
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Health & Wellbeing
Community-level health care, prevention and wellbeing support, close to where people actually live.
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Economic Empowerment
Savings groups, training and small enterprise support that let households build their own income.
Explore this ministry“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.”
Support the whole of it
A gift to where it is needed most lets our partners direct funds to whichever of the three needs it most urgently.