How has being vulnerable opened doors?
Posted on: 6th July 2020
CMS missionaries answer the question: “How has being vulnerable opened doors?” Getting your car window smashed may sound traumatic but we rate this as one of the best things that has happened to us in our first 12 months on Groote. One Sunday night the rear window of our 4wd has been smashed, presumably by young kids […]
The Age of Authenticity
Posted on: 1st July 2020
Here is the fourth in a series of six on ‘pleasure, pain, and the secular worldview’, CMS Director of Training and Development David Williams talks about how ‘pain pleasure culture is the world of expressive individualism’. Part one, Emotions and the Fall’, is here. Part two, ‘Life under the dome’, is here. Part three ‘Shrink-wrapped minds’ is […]
Mission in humility: Revisiting our methods
Posted on: 29th June 2020
CMS missionaries Arthur & Tamie Davis support and encourage Fellowship of Evangelical Students (TAFES) staff, who help Tanzanian students meet Jesus and follow him beyond university. Here Tamie and Arthur share how approaching mission in humility means learning to think differently. Humility in mission is about revisiting our methods in cross-cultural ministry, and aspiring to use local languages, local resources, and local thinking styles. Sounds […]
Italian gospel growth during lockdown. Part 2: some personal stories
Posted on: 25th June 2020
CMS missionary Gillian Law works with the Italian student group Gruppi Biblici Universitari (GBU, the University Bible Group. Here in part 2 of her account of gospel growth under lockdown (part 1 is here) she shares encouraging personal stories of how gospel work continues. What has ministry in Italy looked like during COVID-19 lockdown? In […]
Italian gospel growth during COVID lockdown. Part 1
Posted on: 25th June 2020
CMS missionary Gillian Law works with the Italian student group Gruppi Biblici Universitari (GBU, the University Bible Group). Here Gillian speaks of what ministry before COVID-19 was like, and what it has now become. There’s no typical week in university ministry here in Rome. But during the academic year, which is short and sharp, it’s […]
Humble teaching in a hierarchy
Posted on: 22nd June 2020
CMS missionaries Dave and Leoni Painter have worked in Cambodia for nearly 20 years. Here Dave explains that the path of humility is not easy to navigate, but Christians have an example in Jesus. I teach at the Phnom Penh Bible school. Most students there are committed Christians from lower to middle class backgrounds in their early 20s. They wear official Bible […]
SAH redevelopment update: Level 1
Posted on: 18th June 2020
SAH construction continues well, despite some rainy Melbourne weather. Ground floor formwork was completed in late May, and now the concrete has been poured for the ground floor and for level 1. We look forward to the second floor and the roof coming on, around the end of July. Refurbishment of the heritage house is […]
Accepting Correction
Posted on: 15th June 2020
CMS missionary Julie Field, serving with Martin in Asociación Bíblica Universitaria Argentina (ABUA) in Argentina, has had a difficult year in ministry. Here she reflects on the humbling joys and challenges of being a ‘parent’ to those she serves. We have been serving Argentine uni students for the past 12 years. In 2007 I arrived in Argentina as an energetic 35 year old woman, and my dealings with our twenty-something student friends felt like […]
Peru in lockdown: an update, and what the churches are doing.
Posted on: 12th June 2020
CMS missionaries Nick & Kysha Davies report the latest on how the Coronavirus has affected life for people in Peru, and how local churches are helping. Peru is still in lockdown, 85 days at the time of writing. We are very safe. We’ve got plenty of food in our fridge and freezer to last us […]
Lasting hope lasts during COVID
Posted on: 9th June 2020
CMS workers M & L, located in SE Asia, provided this brief but inspiring message about one of the people they are ministering to in their location. It is a reminder that while the world may be in pandemic lockdown, the gospel is unchained. We wanted to share with you this wonderful testimony from our brother Dan […]
