Mission van crawl 2019
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nine students from Carey Baptist College, along with an extra friend, toured with Dave Tims of Urban Neighbours of Hope on a week-long mission van crawl.

A loss of innocence? – Dave Tims
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…have we forgotten our New Zealand history.

Seeds of Influence- WOC Project – Lafoai Luaitalo
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A Community-led development for youth work.

A relational approach
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This report focuses on Auckland Council’s engagement with South Auckland communities through The Southern Initiative (TSI) and provides a grassroots view of its relational approach and practices.

TAKING A STAND FOR THE COMMON GOOD
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Dave Tims the Director of Urban Neighbours of Hope talked with Andrew about how Jesus followers need to make poverty personal and look for ways of sharing our resources.

MAKING POVERTY PERSONAL, understanding God’s concern for the poor.
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Dave Tims explains why he believes New Zealanders need to wake up to an economic system ingrained in our society, and why Jesus followers should be taking a stand for the common good.

Words create worlds
Read the story of Randwick Park retold from the inside.
The murder of local shop owner Navtej Singh in 2008 was a catalyst that started a dialogue for change in Randwick Park, Manurewa. Randwick Park had reputation as a deprived neighbourhood with significant social issues. Often represented in the media as a crime ridden and dark place. The community had also internalised some of this discourse. What was unseen or unspoken was the good that was being done by committed people in the community. Tims (2016) said that “words shape worlds” and so they began to tell the stories of the good, of the heroes of Randwick Park.

What has changed in Randwick – 2016
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Residents were randomly visited between 29 and 30 September 2015, and invited to participate in a brief survey if they had lived in Randwick Park for five or more years. In total, 21 people were interviewed.