Reflections on the Homogeneous Unit Principle: Part 4 of 4.
Posted on: 23rd September 2021
This is the fourth and final article in a series of reflections that have explored the Homogeneous Unit Principle (HUP)—the idea that people “prefer to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers.” [1] In Part One we explored Donald McGavran’s historical context and the way in which he developed the HUP. In Part […]
Overwhelmed by Coronavirus
Posted on: 15th September 2021
South East Asia has suffered intensely from Coronavirus, especially the Delta variant. CMS workers who serve with university students and medical graduates in the region describe the impact of COVID-19 on their community. A community in crisis Overwhelmed. It’s a word we had rarely heard our friends use until this last year. South East Asian people are generally used to uncertainty, disasters and trauma. But recently, this term has been used […]
A community of grace in Rome: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 8th September 2021
Leonardo De Chirico was due to be one of the speakers at CMS Summer Conferences throughout Australia in 2022. He will now be speaking in 2023. He is the pastor of Breccia di Roma, a church that he helped plant in Rome in 2009. Here he speaks of gospel ministry and opportunity in that city. […]
Making Jesus known in Japan: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 6th September 2021
CMS missionaries Adam and Helane Ramsay, along with Steven and Sandra Parsons, are serving in Japan. Whether church planting or supporting in other ways, they explain their desire to see God’s people take every opportunity to grow his kingdom in a hard place. Adam writes We didn’t come to Japan to church plant. We came […]
Flourishing despite persecution: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 3rd September 2021
CMS Co-Mission Partner* Anwar Berhe ministers with his wife Tsigereda at the Evangelical Theological College in Addis Ababa, where Anwar encourages Ethiopian Christians to plant churches. Here Anwar tells Checkpoint why this work matters. How many church planters have you assisted in their work? I have not kept a record and am not sure about […]
Growing churches in France: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 1st September 2021
CMS missionary Kelly Landrigan is part of a new church plant, the Église Harmonie church in Cormeilles-en-Parisis. CMS missionaries Colin and Catherine Puffett are helping church plant in Nantes. They are unanimous: France needs more church planters. Kelly writes I live in Cormeilles, a centuries-old rural community that has now grown into a town of […]
A morning in the life of an online Bible teacher
Posted on: 31st August 2021
CMS missionaries Dave and Leoni Painter teach at Phnom Penh Bible College. For the last year and a half their classes have been largely conducted online. Dave shares some of the challenges of teaching remotely. After 18 months of online teaching, I’ve asked myself, “Why not be a ‘Zoom-missionary’? Now much of our contact with students is online, should we continue […]
The cost of a new start: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 30th August 2021
After several years serving in parish ministry in Sydney, CMS workers Morgan and Olivia are now working at a church in the Middle East. Morgan shares some of the highs and lows of being a sending church. We recently farewelled a fellow pastor from our church here on location. It’s hard to imagine how we […]
A unique gospel witness: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 27th August 2021
CMS missionaries Klaus and Jude Hickel have served on the ministry team at Leipzig English Church in Germany for nearly ten years. Klaus shares how God has been faithfully transforming their German-language congregation into a Christ-centred community of believers. As the name implies, Leipzig English Church (LEC) is an English-speaking church based in Leipzig. It […]
The water of life
Posted on: 27th August 2021
Clean water is a luxury that we frequently take for granted. But many communities in South Asia have limited access to clean water. A CMS worker serving in the region as a water engineer shares about his work and his hope for all to experience ‘living water’. “Whoever drinks the water I give them will […]
