Orphans Aid International’s Sue Van Schreven reflects on 22 years of caring for vulnerable children. One of them is the first girl to come into the charity’s Romanian home in 2004. She was abandoned in a hospital as a baby and is now married with a family of her own.
Sue looks back on Mountain of Hope, the documentary that follows a team of 15 up Mount Kilimanjaro to mark the charity’s 15th anniversary, with a stop at its Imuka family strengthening project along the way. She also gives an update from Nepal, where flooding has left extended families caring for orphaned children. As the focus moves from emergency aid to long-term rebuilding, she warns that the trafficking of girls and boys is now the region’s biggest threat.
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0:00 Orphans Aid International turns 22
0:45 First children now raising families
1:51 Changing a child’s destiny
3:19 The Mountain of Hope documentary
4:43 Visiting the family strengthening project
5:48 Update from Nepal
6:02 Helping families after the floods
7:11 Wraparound care & the trafficking threat
#OrphanCare #Nepal #HumanTrafficking #Kilimanjaro #Romania
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Are You Voting Just for Yourself? | Thoughts on Politics EP5
When you cast your vote, are you thinking only of yourself, or of your neighbour too?
This is Episode 5 of Thoughts on Politics, a five-part series asking what's broken in our country, whether we can fix it with politics, and who's fit for the job as Election 2026 approaches. Across the series, Rhema's Andrew Urquhart and 29 special guests, from policy analysts and practitioners to theologians and the general public, explore the central themes of Identity, Compassion, Justice, Prosperity and Welfare.
In this episode, Andrew turns to compassion. Do our political values reach beyond our own pay packet to the poor and marginalised in our communities? With rough sleeping more visible on our streets and incomes struggling to keep pace with the cost of living, he asks the age-old question: who exactly is my neighbour?
Some argue the answer is a long-term plan that gets people off the streets and into work, not just food parcels. Others weigh up who benefits from a policy and who pays for it, and warn against deepening dependency. One voice questions whether it's the government's problem to solve at all, while others say church, community and government each have a part to play. Andrew revisits the parable of the Good Samaritan, unpacks the call to seek the good of the city, and makes the case that choosing not to vote is a political decision in itself.
Chapters
0:00 Who exactly is my neighbour?
5:22 Who benefits & who pays?
7:26 The voters we don't hear from
9:22 The greater good & the Good Samaritan
11:17 Christianity with its sleeves rolled up
16:49 What loving our neighbour looks like
20:16 The least of these
22:24 Why your vote matters
#Election2026 #NZPolitics #Compassion #Homelessness
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This is Episode 5 of Thoughts on Politics, a five-part series asking what's broken in our country, whether we can fix it with politics, and who's fit for the job as Election 2026 approaches. Across the series, Rhema's Andrew Urquhart and 29 special guests, from policy analysts and practitioners to theologians and the general public, explore the central themes of Identity, Compassion, Justice, Prosperity and Welfare.
In this episode, Andrew turns to compassion. Do our political values reach beyond our own pay packet to the poor and marginalised in our communities? With rough sleeping more visible on our streets and incomes struggling to keep pace with the cost of living, he asks the age-old question: who exactly is my neighbour?
Some argue the answer is a long-term plan that gets people off the streets and into work, not just food parcels. Others weigh up who benefits from a policy and who pays for it, and warn against deepening dependency. One voice questions whether it's the government's problem to solve at all, while others say church, community and government each have a part to play. Andrew revisits the parable of the Good Samaritan, unpacks the call to seek the good of the city, and makes the case that choosing not to vote is a political decision in itself.
Chapters
0:00 Who exactly is my neighbour?
5:22 Who benefits & who pays?
7:26 The voters we don't hear from
9:22 The greater good & the Good Samaritan
11:17 Christianity with its sleeves rolled up
16:49 What loving our neighbour looks like
20:16 The least of these
22:24 Why your vote matters
#Election2026 #NZPolitics #Compassion #Homelessness
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Drummer Boy: The Movie That Mended a Family
for KING & COUNTRY singer Joel Smallbone talks about Drummer Boy, the Revolutionary War musical he co-directed with his brother Ben, in New Zealand cinemas from 13 November.
Mr Smallbone reflects on eight years of setbacks, from a studio pitch derailed by the pandemic to cutting a song he loved, and explains how a film about two brothers on opposite sides of the battlefield helped him and Ben rebuild trust after drifting apart. He unpacks the film’s message that forgiveness is revolutionary, exploring characters who are outwardly free but inwardly enslaved, and argues its themes of identity and being all one in Christ come through naturally rather than feeling preachy.
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0:41 What is Drummer Boy?
1:48 Premiere night in Auckland
2:40 A film of failures
4:45 The cast & the song that got cut
6:31 Stepping in front of the camera
9:20 Forgiveness is revolutionary
10:50 Faith in the 1700s
12:13 A promise to musical sceptics
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Click HereMr Smallbone reflects on eight years of setbacks, from a studio pitch derailed by the pandemic to cutting a song he loved, and explains how a film about two brothers on opposite sides of the battlefield helped him and Ben rebuild trust after drifting apart. He unpacks the film’s message that forgiveness is revolutionary, exploring characters who are outwardly free but inwardly enslaved, and argues its themes of identity and being all one in Christ come through naturally rather than feeling preachy.
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0:41 What is Drummer Boy?
1:48 Premiere night in Auckland
2:40 A film of failures
4:45 The cast & the song that got cut
6:31 Stepping in front of the camera
9:20 Forgiveness is revolutionary
10:50 Faith in the 1700s
12:13 A promise to musical sceptics
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Is Human Worth Just a Spreadsheet Calculation?
Brendan Malone joins Andrew Curtis to unpack a US genetic screening company’s claim that it can now test IVF embryos for a child’s future risk of depression.
Mr Malone warns that what once seemed like dystopian science fiction is being normalised, and argues that this kind of screening revives the logic of eugenics, a movement he says rebranded rather than disappeared after Nazism. He contrasts a utilitarian view of human worth with the Christian conviction that every person bears the image of God, drawing on C.S. Lewis’s warning about science without moral restraint and highlighting how AI could amplify the problem. He also questions whether depression can be reduced to genetics at all, pointing to a crisis of meaning and the breakdown of family and community as deeper causes.
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0:13 Screening embryos for depression
1:36 The real history of eugenics
3:43 A world with no room for God
5:15 Image of God vs utility
7:13 Where AI comes in
8:21 Conscience and what depression really is
10:44 What 90s sci-fi predicted
#IVF #Eugenics #Bioethics #HumanDignity #AI
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Click HereMr Malone warns that what once seemed like dystopian science fiction is being normalised, and argues that this kind of screening revives the logic of eugenics, a movement he says rebranded rather than disappeared after Nazism. He contrasts a utilitarian view of human worth with the Christian conviction that every person bears the image of God, drawing on C.S. Lewis’s warning about science without moral restraint and highlighting how AI could amplify the problem. He also questions whether depression can be reduced to genetics at all, pointing to a crisis of meaning and the breakdown of family and community as deeper causes.
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0:13 Screening embryos for depression
1:36 The real history of eugenics
3:43 A world with no room for God
5:15 Image of God vs utility
7:13 Where AI comes in
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