In God’s hands: Serving in unexpected ways on location
Posted on: 6th August 2018
S & I serve with their three children in South Asia, where S has found himself as Managing Director and Acting Principal at a school for expatriate and local children. While this was not his plan when their family began this term of service, S explains how the Father has been graciously using him in […]
Lives transformed: Student stories from France
Posted on: 30th July 2018
Josh Apieczonek serves with the Groupes Bibliques Universitaire (GBU) in France, first in Paris and now in Lyon. He shared some stories of students he worked with and the transformational power of the word of God when applied to life. Clément is a school student involved in a Bible discussion group not far from his school. […]
Review: They Shall See His Face
Posted on: 23rd July 2018
Jenny Tasker reviews They Shall See His Face: The story of Amy Oxley Wilkinson and her visionary blind school in China. Amy Oxley Wilkinson was the first CMS NSW & ACT missionary to be sent to China, arriving in 1895. Jenny Tasker is a distant cousin of Amy Oxley Wilkinson. This meticulously researched biography by […]
Caring for Bingham students in mind, body and spirit
Posted on: 16th July 2018
Shane & Naomi Rubie, with Tom, Oliver, Lucy and Max, serve at Bingham Academy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where Shane is athletics director and teaches PE, the Bible and science, and Naomi mentors teaching assistants and works in the elementary school. Naomi explains how Bingham supports ministry in Ethiopia and prepares students for a lifetime […]
When belonging hinders belief
Posted on: 9th July 2018
CMS worker T* (serving with J* in South East Asia) has come to a deeper understanding that persuading Buddhists of the truth of the gospel requires long-term commitment and perseverance. T reveals how trusting in a God who rules lends strength to their work and the mission of CMS. During our first term in Buddhist […]
Bridge to life: Speaking the gospel in a Buddhist context
Posted on: 2nd July 2018
CMS keeps working on ways to meet the gospel challenge of Buddhism. We have invited Peter Thein Nyunt, a Buddhist monk who became a Christian and now has a PhD in missiology, to speak at CMS Summer Conferences in January 2019. Learn here about how he presents Buddhists with the message of Jesus, who can […]
Offering grace in a land of kindness
Posted on: 25th June 2018
In her first term of service, CMS missionary N*, serving in South East Asia, finds herself in a land of kindness where money really does grow on trees. Here N speaks of the challenge that CMS workers face in offering a grace that is greater even than kindness. Sensory overload. That’s one way I’d describe […]
A joyous responsibility: ‘Gospel-zero’ Buddhist Asia
Posted on: 18th June 2018
Workers S & K* have recently moved to Buddhist Asia. Before their departure, they spoke to Checkpoint about why they feel compelled to go to a ‘gospel-zero’ people group. S & K have arrived in a location where they face the challenges of language and culture learning, and major adjustments to life far away from […]
Love thy Buddhist neighbour
Posted on: 11th June 2018
CMS NSW & ACT Mission Facilitator Josh Ling, a former Buddhist, is firmly convinced by his migrant experience that even those at home in Australia can offer the gospel to their Buddhist neighbours. With half a million Buddhists in Australia, his words are worth reading. As a convert to Christianity, raised in a traditional Buddhist […]
John 3:16 – When good news sounds bad
Posted on: 4th June 2018
CMS missionary Wim Prins (serving with Maaike in Cambodia) describes how he engages with Buddhists who view the good news of Christianity as not good at all. He also introduces us to the important and related Christian literature work of Fount of Wisdom. John 3:16 John 3:16 declares the wonderful news that “God so loved […]
