Middle East church ministry continues during COVID
Posted on: 17th May 2021
CMS workers John and Deb serve in a church in the Middle East. For some time now it has been impossible to meet physically because of Coronavirus. But they continue to see people coming to know Jesus. When we arrived, we thought our part of the Middle East only had two seasons: hot and very […]
A doctor’s response: Checkpoint Winter 2021
Posted on: 17th May 2021
CMS workers Bruce and Libby have served long-term in Nepal. Here Bruce speaks of his involvement in the country’s medical response to the pandemic, as well as the challenge of trusting God through this time. The first COVID case in Nepal was reported in late January 2020, a student returning from Wuhan who recovered quickly. […]
God’s word is not chained: Checkpoint Winter 2021
Posted on: 14th May 2021
CMS International Director Peter Rodgers considers the challenges of a global pandemic and turns to the Bible to encourage us to rejoice, persevere, and trust God. You might imagine that as the world shut down due to the pandemic, global mission was put on hold. However, that has not been so! And when we turn […]
Meeting physical and spiritual needs
Posted on: 13th May 2021
CMS missionaries Nathan and Maki Clapham have been working with students and their local church in Japan since 2013. Maki is also involved in a local ministry to homeless people in Tokyo. Homelessness might not be something that comes to your mind when you think about Japan. Yet, there are those who have fallen through the system and ended up living on the streets. Let […]
The injustice of grace
Posted on: 11th May 2021
CMS has a number of workers who live and serve in Muslim-majority countries. One such worker is learning Arabic and the culture of her Middle Eastern country as she befriends local women. She shares a recent conversation with her language teacher. We were sitting in the courtyard of our favourite cafe, drinking chai and catching up on the week. It was […]
God’s unchanging plans for mission. Part 4: God’s plan for followers of Christ
Posted on: 28th April 2021
Simon Gillham concludes his four-part series on God’s unchanging mission, asking how our identity in Christ will be reflected in our mission in this world. Today many insist on the right to be identified as whoever or whatever they want to be. They may choose to be identified by by some or many elements: their achievements, their abilities, their sexual preferences, their personal decisions, their […]
An intentional approach to student ministry
Posted on: 27th April 2021
CMS missionaries Arthur and Tamie Davis are passionate about gospel ministry to university students. They work with TAFES—the Tanzanian Fellowship of Evangelical Students, which is part of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). They share how TAFES workers are thinking strategically in their approach to campus ministry. How do you make an impact among students? This has been the question […]
It’s easy to find reasons not to go
Posted on: 20th April 2021
For these CMS workers*, keen to return to their location, COVID has been a season of thwarted plans and interruptions. There are good reasons to remain in Australia, but they are convinced of the need to go. On the subject of overseas cross-cultural mission, I keep hearing in my mind the words of a Christian leader who once said to me, “It’s easy […]
Seeking an end to spiritual and physical drought
Posted on: 15th April 2021
CMS missionaries Sam and Shan-Shan Chrisp are learning culture and language in Taiwan as they prepare to work in student ministry. As Taiwan suffers its first water shortage in a decade, they reflect on our need for spiritual and physical water. “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will […]
Uruguay needs a resurrection of faith
Posted on: 3rd April 2021
CMS missionaries Pedro and Joy Oliveira Woolmer are in their second year of ministry in Uruguay, working with university students. Joy explains that unlike the Catholic culture of surrounding countries, Uruguay is strongly secular. In the lead up to Easter, countries throughout Latin America are celebrating Holy Week, Semana Santa. But here in Uruguay, businesses and schools are […]
