Tearfund

And then I went to Africa.

for four months with Tearfund.

And it's so interesting because people always say, oh, you know, when you come back and you're all fired up for God and then you're most vulnerable.

Yep, that was me.

And then in a year after that, my life had just changed.

And I even remember going to a Tearfund reunion of all the people I'd gone away with, and it was such a short space of time since I'd seen them.

And my life had just totally changed, and it was so confronting realizing how much it had changed.

Oh, that's just one start.

So Musu, you are the president of Food for the Hungry Canada right now.

And prior to FH, you were with Canadian Food Grains Bank and Tear Fund and Mercy Canada and the Canadian government for a while as well.

Really excited to have you here.

And we had a conversation last week and I think there's a lot of insights that you have and things that you're wrestling with as an organization that I really want to bring to our listeners.

Welcome to the Tearfund Australia podcast.

Over this series, we're having a fresh conversation about the future, faith, climate, and justice.

We're talking to real people on the front lines of global challenges, from elders to next-gen leaders, local pastors, and global changemakers.

Great.

And she is a wife, a mom, and the director of the Master of Transformational Development at the Eastern College Australia, a postgraduate program designed to equip Christian leaders from all across the world to explore how theology and development intersect in real-world contexts.

Tanya is also a Tearfund Australia ambassador and we're really excited to see what she's got to say.

Shall we get right in?

Absolutely.

And you would hope that the local church would be that.

So I do like organizations like Tearfund and others who seek to work through local churches.

I think that is a...

A very, well, biblical and sensible and commendable way to do it.

Roll on till I was finished college as I studied civil engineering.

My whole goal for studying civil engineering was I wanted to go away with a missionary organisation called Tearfund to do civil engineering projects, building projects abroad.

And I had the adequate experience necessary and they had always sent out bulletins looking for civil engineers.

Anyway, now that I had the adequate experience and I had the qualifications, I went and I contacted them only to be informed that they didn't need any civil engineers at the present moment in time.

It's just reality.

We're hearing from a number of young people in these conversations that we're having through Tearfund at the moment.

But I wonder from your perspective, as you engage with the young people around you in your church community and beyond, do you have a sense of how hopeful they feel about their lives and about the future?

It's a really good question.

We pay our respects to their elders past and present and we hope that the stories we share here can honour them.

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Tearfund Australia is a movement of Christians working in partnership to end poverty and tackle injustice.

And then we have concerts in churches and we've done quite a number of those in the Republic over the years as well.

We partner with other organisations like Tearfund, Open Doors and others.

We make recordings, do training events.

So I find myself talking about these issues quite frequently from time to time.

Welcome to the Tearfund Australia podcast.

Over this series, we're having a fresh conversation about the future, faith, climate and justice.

We're talking to real people on the front lines of global challenges, from elders to next-gen leaders, local pastors and global changemakers.

We're asking the question, how do we live into an uncertain future with deeply rooted hope? This is Strong Roots, High Hopes.

Welcome back everyone to the Tearfund Australia podcast where we're talking about strong roots and high hopes.

My name's Matt and I'm here with Adelia and Joel.

How are we today?

You're bringing the Samoan warmth into the conversation.