Dear Church Partners To help you help your members engage with this opportunity: Idea #4 Play a couple of the new ‘Faith Q&A’ videos which explain why we trust the Bible*. You could include the weblink in your bulletin...
Dear Church Partners New Media: Polished 10DayChallenge.co.nz and NEW HopeProjectNZ Facebook page! Idea #3 to help you help your members engage with this opportunity: Why not play the video versions of the two powerful stories that were...
Spiritual leadership is about love and faith! These are the greatest things any pastor or leader can offer their members. It is about love, because our example that will speak the loudest in our discipling...
Dear Church Partners Our updates in the coming 6 weeks will be weekly, giving you ideas to help you to aid your members to engage with this opportunity. How to make the most of the Hope Project,...
Spiritual leadership is about love and faith! These are the greatest things any pastor or leader can offer their members. It is about love, because our example that will speak the loudest in our discipling...
Dear Church Partners We have good news! Savings have been made and the original $800,000 figure for this coming May phase has been dropped to below $750,00. This means that today (13/4/15) there is just $250,000 to raise...
Click here to view and print these stories in PDF form. BOOKLET HIGHLY VISIBLE IN THE COMMUNITY: An area overseer in the Anglican movement reported that in his travels the booklets had been highly visible. He...
The Hope Project is doing it again. Last October, for the first time in thirty years, the gospel went right throughout NZ. It was also the first time this has ever happened through a nation-wide...
Following last October’s national gospel effort, the Hope Project team and media advisors assessed the effort. One area they concluded needed to change was the level of appeal that the media had to the young....
[caption id="attachment_2817" align="aligncenter" width="302"] Bookmark to promote online equipping[/caption] Dear Partnering Churches, Last week we heard from numerous excited and united church bodies around the country who are prepared to deliver Phase II booklets locally. So wonderful!...
Did the Hope Project national gospel effort last October work, causing New Zealanders to engage in spiritual conversations? ‘Yes’ is the answer the Hope Project team are hearing. Courtesy calls to pastors throughout the nation are...
Dear Partnering Churches, In the previous update we gave you four options that you could use to run a discussion group in June, following the media effort starting in May with three stages of TV ads running...
This past week I became aware of a friends school that ended religious education classes, and invited local churches to run a lunch-time program instead. I’m not aware of the reasons, however (while this particular...
Educational experts — like teachers — have known for years the importance of repetition in education. The spiral curriculum is a concept of repetition. Every week, month and year teachers intentionally repeat and expand upon...
Dear Partnering Churches, 2015 is upon us & with it an opportunity to take the Christian message to every home in NZ again. PHASE II is scheduled to launch with TV ads airing in three stages over...
Is the mission of Jesus truly the mission of our churches? In recent years our nation has been rediscovering how our early missionaries actually got a lot more things right than they were previously credited for,...
THE ‘HOPE PROJECT’ — NEW ZEALAND The below are a few paragraphs written for for a Christian audience, to help someone explain the Hope Project effort so far. What they do not communicate in the ‘balanced’...
Our team are very happy with the first effort. Assessment has identified areas that need addressing. The primary of these is the low web interaction / high bounce rate (meaning that many who came to...
After the most hectic year of my life the first phase has been achieved, and my mind has space to reflect on things other than only ‘core business’ - like blogs. For me, a big thank...
A reflection by Dave Mann, Hope Project Coordinator It is a matter of integrity to me that I’m open about this, because I don’t want to ever be accused of leading people ‘down the garden path.’...