Grapevine magazine. It’s been around for 40 years, giving kiwi families a lift …
promoting stable, loving relationships … tackling family hurts and headaches in a positive, helpful way … injecting fun, hope and wholeness into homes all over the country.
Thousands of copies of Grapevine are delivered each year to sponsored households and streets. But lots of families are still missing out – and, chances are, yours is one of them. Grapevine is a unique, colourful, much-valued resource for families. (Just check the feedback we receive.) And, to encourage you to get Grapevine regularly – for yourself, your street, your neighbourhood, your local kindergarten/ school/church/club, your friends or workmates – we want to send you YOUR OWN TRIAL COPY, FREE, FOR A YEAR!
Latest ISSUE
BALANCED
“The most caring, loving, sensitive, balanced article on MARRIAGE I’ve read in a long time!” – Brian
Latest Articles
When we become strangers
How loneliness leaks into our lives – and what we can do about it
A CONVERSATION WITH MAGGIE HAMILTON
IF YOU TAKE THE TIME to observe, you can’t help but notice all the ...
Finding a lifetime love of Exercise
A CONVERSATION WITH BEVAN JAMES EYLES
Has it been ages since you last exercised? Do you know that you need ...
Being screen safe
Top tips for your family’s cyber sanity
SMART DEVICES HAVE CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER. From connecting to family in faraway places to instant information ...
Going Places
Round, roly-poly & dangerous!
“HOLD ONTO YOUR HAT” someone yelled, as our 4WD took us down-down-down the steep, winding track. I’d been looking ...
Stillpoint
Then came Susan ...
GRANDMA’S LIVING ROOM was large and dark. She kept the shades down so her furniture wouldn’t fade. And one day, ...
Art of Manliness
How to accept your partner’s flaws
ONCE THE HEADY CHEMICALS of new love — which transform one’s sweetheart into the very picture of human perfection ...
Home Sweet Home
How to take Medicine
MEDICINES ARE A LOT LIKE media studies in that no one ever completes the course. Up and down the country, people ...
Around the Table
Lemon Chicken PLUS Apple & Ricotta Fritelle
SLOW SUNDAYS are for herbed roast chicken and silky-smooth panna cotta. Eating outside means cheddar scones and ...
How to get Lost
Essential Outdoor Skills #3
“IT WAS OBVIOUS NO HUMAN had been here before … ever. I was going to die somewhere in this thick, impenetrable ...
The Crispy Bits
DIY
I MET AN OLD WWI digger who accidentally chopped his finger off. He stitched it back on using fishing line. True. ...
Pick of the Bunch
Car-Jacking Granny and Swallowing Pride
CAR-JACKING GRANNY:
An elderly lady did her shopping and, upon return, found four males in her car. She dropped ...
You Ain’t Gonna Believe This!
Fun facts that'll blow your mind!
Earth is the only planet not named after a god. Drivers in Nebraska back in 1912 had to stop every 150 yards, send ...