BY VICTORIA PRICE Right now it feels particularly easy to be overwhelmed and stunned by the pain and darkness that the world – and too often children – seem to face in new forms every day. News headlines such as those reporting children ripped from their parents at borders, and girls exploited by those sent […]
Month: June 2018
Digging deeper into prayer
In their busy lives, Christian youth workers are often more responsive rather than reflective, and don’t always have the opportunities to stop, share, plan and pray. One of the aims of Doorsteps, Viva’s partner network based in Oxford, is to provide this space. We are identifying a greater collaboration between youth projects, and currently have […]
Get the inside track on Viva
BY ANDREW DUBOCK As Viva celebrates two decades of partnering grassroots networks of churches, organisations and individuals to help transform communities around the world for children, we invite you to join us in reflecting on a year of successes and challenges – and to look at how the global Church can be effective in protecting […]
An incredible force for good
BY BRIAN WILKINSON The 38 networks that partner with Viva connect 2,324 churches and 1,152 organisations – but these numbers do not tell us the real story. What has motivated and inspired me over the years has been meeting the heroes and heroines who sacrificially give their lives to serve children at risk. Over the last […]
God’s precious children deserve life
BY HANNAH BARR The last thing I listened to last night was audio from inside a US Customs and Border Protection Facility. It was children, crying, wailing. Ten Central American children who have been separated from their parents, screaming “Mami” and “Papa” over and over again. It was haunting. It was heart-breaking. The first thing […]
BCDO 18: an unforgettable time
BY ANDREW DUBOCK As a Viva staff team, we don’t get out of the office very much together. But when we do it’s usually memorable. A few weeks ago, we returned again to the Big Church Day Out to set up a stand in the Bazaar and share with passers-by stories of how Viva changes […]
“I’ve waited years to hear about mental health in this way”
BY HANNAH BARR Around 90 people who attended Doorsteps’ mental health conference last month have returned to their communities informed and supported about the subject and empowered to make a difference. The event at St Andrew’s Church, north Oxford, entitled ‘A Christian Response to Child and Adolescent Mental Health’, drew participants from across Oxfordshire, and […]