We want to share with you our story of being part of God’s mission in this world, a story of restoration and renewal, and life in all it’s fullness. God and his character of love and justice are real, just as the realities of injustice and poverty in this life, both material and spiritual, are real. We seek to understand the international development sector from a Christian perspective of integral/holistic mission. We have a strong focus on integral mission – both proclaiming and demonstrating the gospel, recognising people’s physical as well as spiritual needs.  Why holistic development and mission?  Because the world is in a holistic mess, as one brilliant person who I can’t remember so brilliantly put it (Chris Wright?)! We cannot compartmentalise life into neat little categories.  People are not just economic units of production to contribute to a country’s GNP.  Nor are they spiritual receptacles to be filled up, while their family are rendered powerless and hungry by unjust systems of oppression.  In other words, we have a passion for the local church to change the lives of the spiritually and materially poor.