Breakfast Clubs

We aim to create a family environment in schools within low socio-economic areas to encourage and uplift the children's spirits while feeding them a healthy, cooked breakfast. Our incredible teams have a heart to see children in these schools thrive in a safe setting full of love and fun. If you'd like to know more or join the team, email us at care@arisechurch.com.

SERVE Days

In 2023 we will hold 4 serve day events – one per season. Serve day events are an opportunity for our church family to come together to bless their local community through one off or ongoing community projects. We believe helping those in need shows the love of Jesus in a practical way and makes a huge difference in our communities.

Join or create your own project on the Serve website here.

SERVE Autumn — Practical Serve Day Bring out your hidden gifts and talents to serve the community by creating, sewing, crafting, baking or cooking to bless those in need.

SERVE Winter — Food Drive Donate to restock the ARISE Storehouse and care package stock in campus locations. Come along and pack care packages for the community.

SERVE Spring — This will be our big project serve event Paint a fence at your local primary school, do the gardens at a hospice, put on a morning tea for a fire station, or hold a working bee at a local charity.

SERVE Summer — Big Hearts at Christmas packing day Come along and help us to pack over 2000 Christmas Boxes for families in need during the Christmas season. You can also help to give out these boxes on the following Saturday delivery day.

Vulnerable Women

We partner with local community organisations to bless, love, and nurture the wahine of Aotearoa who are most in need of some care. Our team host Pamper Lounge events to connect with women from many backgrounds and difficult situations. We help and support solo mums within the ARISE community and beyond. We love to celebrate, thank, and bless these incredible parents, as well as support and care for them throughout the year.

The ARISE Storehouse

Since having the Storehouse, we have been able to care for many people in and around the Wellington region. We have equipped our teams in many locations around the country with the ability to bless those in their communities — from care package supplies for families in need to Refugee welcome boxes. Boxes with resources needed to run ARISE Care initiatives like Breakfast Clubs are packed and sent from here, empowering the teams in our campus locations.

The Storehouse has also enabled us to run a Porirua Sunday service each week, have a place to run our vulnerable women events, hold our annual Big Hearts packing day which blesses families in the Christmas season, cook ready-made frozen meals for care packages and is used for many other events for our areas of care.

Having this space has made a huge impact and enabled us to share the truth and love of Jesus Christ in our communities.

Refugee Care

We work alongside New Zealand refugee service organisations like Red Cross to provide a care package full of essential food that is given to every refugee family as they arrive in New Zealand. In some cases, we are also able to supply household items they are in need of. We are looking to expand what we do for former refugees like running welcome events and supporting organisations where needed. If you would like to become a refugee support volunteer through Red Cross, check out some more information here.

Big Hearts at Christmas

Every year we come together as a church family to pack and deliver Christmas boxes to families in need, sharing a message of God's goodness and joy in the Christmas season. We are committed to donating food to thousands of families through our relationship with Red Cross, Women's Refuge, low decile schools, and many others in our community.

We are continuing to partner with our friends at Christmas Box to provide food essentials and Christmas treats for families in need. You can learn more about this wonderful organisation here.

Save the date to be a part of packing and delivering Christmas boxes at every ARISE campus location:

Packing day: Saturday 2nd December, 2023
Delivery day: Saturday 9th December, 2023

Closer to Big Hearts, you will be able to sign up to be a part of your campus' packing or delivery team on the SERVE website here.

Emergency Response

As a church we have been able to show God's love through responding to emergencies, natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic. While we are unable to know what the year will bring, we plan and put aside resources to respond when something unexpected comes up. In the past we have responded to New Zealand's biggest earthquakes, shown support during unexpected events in schools, sent aid to regions hit by flooding, given out care packages and other help where we could during the pandemic.