BONUS! Register your Youth Group for the Good News Project restoration day on 1 March 2025, and get free tickets for all participating youth to the BIGTOP event organised by CYS Southern Easter Camp!
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BONUS! Register your Youth Group for the Good News Project restoration day on 1 March 2025, and get free tickets for all participating youth to the BIGTOP event organised by CYS Southern Easter Camp! ⭐⭐⭐
We are people who hear the good news and embody it by caring for our world.
What is the Good News Project?
The Good News Project provides a space where rangatahi not only hear the Good News but also live it out through hands-on biodiversity restoration projects.
By bringing young people together, this initiative demonstrates the power of collective action and shared purpose in addressing environmental challenges. A living example of faith in action.
We are mobilising young Christians to become agents of positive change for the planet.
Key Outcomes
Youth Engagement and Empowerment:
Christian rangatahi engaged in practical environmental action.
Rangatahi gain first-hand experience in environmental action and developed a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness between faith and care for creation.
Inspire rangatahi to adopt sustainable practices in their daily lives and become advocates for environmental justice within their communities.
Through shared experiences of conservation, rangatahi feel empowered to continue their journey of faith-based environmental action beyond the event.
Relationship Building:
Create relationships between local churches, youth groups and local conservation organisations.
Environmental Impact:
Contribute towards significant progress in the restoration work of a site, contributing to biodiversity conservation and habitat restoration.
Completed Good News Project Restoration Days
Avon-Heathcore Estuary / Ihutai Ōtautahi Christchurch
10 February 2024
Spencer Park
Ōtautahi Christchurch
22 June 2024
Who is the Good News Project for?
The Good News Project restoration days are intended for:
Youth groups who want to give their rangatahi a tastepractical environmental action.
Youth groups who want to explore how their faith fits with caring for creation.
Youth groups who want to do something active and outdoors with their rangatahi.
Youth groups who want to connect with other youth groups in the area on a joint project.
How does it work?
We liaise with project partners to organise a Good News Project restoration event. It’s usually about two hours long. We will sort out the site and any equipment and supplies needed.
You register your Youth Group to join the restoration day.
You do the promotion of the event, recruit youth to join in, get the necessary permissions / emergency contacts / medical info, and transport your youth to and from the event.
Once on site, we (and our project partners) will brief everyone on Health and Safety, and organise the youth to do the various restoration work.
At the end of the event, you transport tired but happy youth back to church/home!
When and where will be the next Good News Project?
The next Good News Project restoration day is:
Saturday, 1 March 2025
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Southshore Spit Reserve
New Brighton
In partnership with CYS Easter Camp’s BIGTOP event.
Save the date! 15 June 2025 for The Good News Project in partnership with WORLD VISION 40 HOUR CHALLENGE! Locations to be confirmed.
The Good News Project Partners
