Food

Small Group Resource

Rich Living: Food - A Rocha’s small group booklet is available for download from the A Rocha website.

Pātaka Kai | Food Pantry | Community Food and Veg Stand

Pātaka Kai, which means storehouse or pantry in te reo Māori, is a place where people can leave food for other people to take for free. It is a community, grassroots, crowd sourced solution to immediate and local need, rescuing food and encouraging the co-sharing between neighbours to strengthen communities. Whether a need for food or a need to give, the Pātaka Kai facilitates neighbours helping neighbours, building community. This is an initiative that churches could easily help set up and get their members and the local neighbourhood involved in. For more information and ideas, check out the links below:

Here are some useful guidelines and tips on how to set up one:

Relevant Eco Church NZ stories

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ADJust - Green Up and Give Challenge

In November 2019, ADJust - Diocese of Auckland Young Anglicans for Social Justice, put out to churches in the Auckland Anglican Diocese a "Green Up and Give Challenge". The idea of the challenge was for churches to explore starting a community garden, starting a compost, or starting a Pātaka Kai over the season of advent. Below are a few stories from the Green Up and Give Challenge, courtesy of ADJust.

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Little steps add up to a big impact at Grace Vineyard!

At Grace, we want to play our part and make meaningful and environmentally sustainable choices when it comes to the products we use and companies we support. We’re excited to let you know some of the steps we’ve taken to become better stewards over the past year. We’ve been working closely with the leadership team and over the past few months, we’ve made some really exciting changes across our church – and we would love to share these with you.