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Welcome to Desert Spring Community Centre / Te Puna Waiora

Our Vision                                                                                                                      
To help create healthy communities and environments through education programs that equip and inspire whanau with skills and knowledge to make good decisions.
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​To help whanau to have the best life at home that they can, to manage finances effectively, to build self-esteem and to gain employment.
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​The work of Desert Spring is inspired by Jesus’ life and message.  ​

Our programs run every term and start one week after the school holidays.
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Building Awesome Whanau Course Positive – Practical – Fun
​Every Tuesday 10am - 12pm
Whether you are already a super parent or one who is struggling, ‘Building Awesome Whanau’ will give you lots of good ideas. 
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Six weeks with a small group of other parents and a friendly facilitator. You watch short video clips (featuring Pio Terei and other parents) and then discuss how the ideas could work at your place.
  • Session one: Laying the foundations. Building your family on aroha
  • ​Session two: Parents are the roof! Protecting your whanau
  • ​Session three: The walls of the whare – Boundaries to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out
  • Session four: Keeping it sweet. Atmosphere is everything
  • ​Session five: Cool korero! Communication
  • ​Session six: Outside the whare. Living in the big wide world
​Cost: $20 with subsidy
Te Reo Maori Course
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very Thursday 10am – 12pm
At the end of the course students wil be able to hold a conversation in Te Reo Maori. They will learn a karakia, waiata, himene, inoi, whakatauki and a mihi, some purakau, pakiwatara and hitori. Simple sentence construction in conversational Maori retelling events.


Te Puna Waiora – Budget Assistance 
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
Financial Mentors are available by appointment. ​

Money Mates Workshop
Four sessions - every Friday 10am – 12pm
We will talk about attitudes and behaviours around money and finances. Learn about interest rates on loans and savings and your rights as a consumer. This is an opportunity to examine choices, options and behaviours.
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Hamilton Community Foodbank 
We are an agent for the Foodbank
Available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
From 10am – 12.30pm.
Criteria does apply.

Desert Spring Community Centre
408 Peachgrove Rd, Fairfield, Hamilton 3214
PO Box 14048 Hamilton 2015
P 07 855 2728
E dsmt.tpw@gmail.com

OPEN HOURS
Monday and Tuesday - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Wednesday - CLOSED
Thursday and Friday - 10:00am to 4:00pm
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DISCOVERY CHRISTIAN CENTRE
Corner Insoll Ave & Peachgrove Rd, Hamilton, New Zealand 
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Email: fairfielddiscovery@gmail.com   Phone: 07 855 2411 
Office Hours: 
 Tue - Fri 9am-11:30am
Helping people find and follow Jesus