Everybody Welcome: A guide on how to make your church disability friendly

This recently updated resource will help you as a church leader think through the fundamentals of inclusion and provides a guide for you and your leadership team to further become a disability friendly church. Why do churches need to be disability friendly? How can churches be inclusive? How do we begin addressing barriers to inclusion? […]

Jacqui

“I began having severe headaches and daily vomiting. I vividly remember I had a sense of God’s presence wrapping Himself around me…”

Manuele

Manuele encountered God for the first time at an Elevate camp. It was there that he gave his life to Christ.

Natalie

“I grew up in quite a musical family…I hear the joy that music can bring to people”

Shoebox

It is estimated that some 10,000 babies were abandoned following the Japanese invasion from 1940 to 1955. Jean was found in a shoebox.

She’s Just Like Me

Andrea’s life is busy, like many people’s lives are these days. It’s full with work, family, friends, swimming and fishing.  

Three Feet Below

“My disability was growing up thinking I didn’t have one. In my dreams I was the All Black winger.”  

When you know God is in it…

Recently my story was put to film. A short story by Symphony and Elevate. The filming day had been postponed due to weather and my illness, so we were running tight on timing to get it done… we had one morning’s window. Things got rather interesting the day we went to film. When we turned […]

Auckland Church Leaders Morning Tea 2018

Slider: Jacqui’s Story