Having sold 13,000 ethical and sustainable t-shirts, featuring in the Guardian and Sky News, and achieving the highest rating on Good On You, Yes Friends is transforming the fashion industry. We speak to co-founder Sam Mabley about ethical wages, how to build a business and his confidence (or naive optimism) rooted in his faith.

Check out their Instagram @yesfriendsbrand or website

Also do give us a follow & rating if you enjoy the podcast and stay tuned with everyone going on @wearetearfund on Instagram or our website wearetearfund.org.

Let’s start the New Year as we mean to go on - with prayer! Anna chats to Lian Jacobs, Head of the African & Caribbean Engagement team at Tearfund all about The Well, a powerful initiative working with Black Christians and Black Majority Churches to fight extreme poverty and injustice. 

Next week in London, The Well will be hosting Declaration Week, a live show every evening at TBN UK studios which is free for you to go to! Every evening will have amazing worship leaders, theologians, church leaders and prayer warriors. Take a look at the schedule to get involved. 

Find out more about The Well here, the Awakened speakers programme here and check out their Instagram @thewellorg to get all of the updates!

Also tune in every evening at 9pm to our afterparties LIVE on Instagram @weareatearfund as we interview guests such as Shermara Fletcher, Pastor Emmanuel Adeseko, Tosin Catherine, Samuel Bella, Julian Morgan & many more!

This year, we have had fantastic conversations covering many topics, from decolonising, navigating climate grief, and breaking the stigma around HIV. We've talked about pilgrimage, creativity and songwriting to leadership and speaking out. 

As we round off the year and wish you a Happy Christmas, tune in for a reminder of why we pursue justice with some of our guests' thought-provoking stories shared this year. 

Episodes highlighted:

• Ep 60 - Holy activism with Jonathan Tremaine Thomas
• Ep 69 - Empowering truth with Marc Antoine in Haiti
• Ep 61 - A pandemic pilgrimage with YCCN
• Ep 62 - Mercifully breaking the stigma with Mercy Shibemba
• Ep 70 - Representation, leadership and justice with Shermara Fletcher
• Ep 63 - From prison cells to prayer with Josh Green

Make sure you are following us on Instagram @wearetearfund and like and subscribe to this podcast! 

Liz Muir, Head of Diversity & Inclusion and Chief of Staff to Tearfund’s CEO, shares the challenges and opportunities of decolonising. We discuss pushing past the buzzword, standing up for what you believe in and carrying the cross in our day-to-day lives of justice.

We also get to know Liz’s heroes of justice, her career path change and how to be generous with what you have.

Follow Liz on @lizmuirspeakers on Instagram and Twitter.

Check out We Are Tearfund on our Instagram @wearetearfund or website wearetearfund.org. Also make sure you give us a follow and a rating so that you get notified when the next episode is out!

For Black History Month 2022, Sandeep interviews the multi-talented Shermara Fletcher, an Anglican and Pentecostal Church leader, international speaker and woman of God. Shermara led prayers at the Queen’s funeral to a televised audience of 4.1 billion people! 

During the conversation, Shermara shares the church’s role in reaching the marginalised, from justice for homelessness and the climate to leadership development and navigating success as a Christian.

Follow Shermara at @shermara_fletche on Twitter or @fletche_official on Instagram.

Make sure to check out We Are Tearfund as well on Instagram @wearetearfund or on our website wearetearfund.org

We Are Tearfund is launching our new campaign, Dare to Journey. We challenge you to take a daring journey to raise support and awareness of the distance refugees travel to flee their contexts. 

We believe a better world is possible for everyone and that we can end extreme poverty together. Why don’t you go to the link on our website wearetearfund.org/dare and sign up! 

Anna speaks to Marc Antoine, Tearfund's Country Director for Haiti, about his experience of telling the truth for climate justice, ongoing crises, addressing issues of poverty and empowering young people.

Marc teaches us his understanding of decolonisation in telling the truth about history and modelling God's kingdom by valuing all voices.

If you would like to hear more about Tearfund's work in Haiti, follow this link here.

Poverty is not God’s plan. You are. If you would like to support our work and change lives, please donate here.

If you would like to pray for Haiti, please pray these prayers:

• Pray Matthew 11:28-30 over the people of Haiti and ask that God will be close to those who are anxious and afraid; pray they will feel restored in mind and body.
• Pray for children who cannot go to school due to the violence. Pray for ways to be made for them to study and to play with other children. And pray that they will not be recruited into gangs. 
• Lift up the conflict resolution training Tearfund is running. Praise God for the church leaders taking part and pray that it will lead to community dialogues with gang members and bring about healing and restoration in their communities and peace for Haiti.

Find out more about Emerging Influencers here.

Join our Dare to Journey fundraising campaign at wearetearfund.org/dare.

And finally, give the podcast a follow to be notified of our next episodes coming out! You can also check out us on Instagram @wearetearfund.

Join us for another episode where Anna and Julian chat about God's powerful grace as God sees our mess and chooses to restore it. Julian covers his testimony in finding Jesus despite brokenness and injustice, how he wants his heart to ache for all justice issues equally and the importance of speaking the truth.

Adam and Anna also discuss what they wish they could tell their 16-year-old selves!

TW: This interview includes themes of drug usage, suicidal thoughts, sexual abuse and mentions of racism in relation to George Floyd’s murder. This content may be difficult to listen to, and therefore we encourage you to care for your safety and wellbeing by choosing whether to listen or not. If anything raised makes you uncomfortable, please chat to someone you trust. 

Julian's Instagram @iam_jdmorgan

Tearfund's work The Well on Instagram is about reimagining how we can end global poverty, led by Black Christians and Black Majority Churches. Check it out!

Emmanuel Murangira, Tearfund's country director for Tearfund Rwanda, encourages us to have a faith perspective on capitalism and business, the meaning behind the term 'development' and the beautiful nation of Rwanda.

Join Adam and Anna as they talk about plastic-free initiatives and how to keep pushing for the restoration of this world. 

Our work in Rwanda 

Giving to Tearfund 

J Vessel shares the power of creativity, having an authentic voice and his journey into music. Through his charity ImAVessel he provides a conversation on hot topics in Church.

We also hear from Ryan on stewarding the secret place well, navigating the public & private life and how we are all creatives (yes, even you!). 

J Vessel Instagram @jvessel

ImAVessel website and Instagram @imavesseluk

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Hannah Malcolm is committed to both the Church and climate justice. She is an Anglican ordinand writing her theology PhD on climate grief and the editor of Words for A Dying World. Hannah joins us to unpack lament, climate grief and protecting our mental health. 

We also speak to Scarlett about navigating low motivation and anxiety and learn more about indigenous protesting in Brasilia. 

Hannah's edited book Words For A Dying World

Twitter: @hannahmmalcolm and Wordpress website

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