Skin-deep mission: how Western missionaries are perceived.
Posted on: 3rd September 2019
Ex-CMS missionary Greg Anderson is now bishop of the Northern Territory. In this, the first of six articles on humility in mission, he writes about the difference that skin colour makes to mission, and how to deal with that difference as a Christian and as a missionary. (The link to the second article is here. […]
Farewell to Bishop Tony Nichols
Posted on: 30th August 2019
We give God glory for the life of his servant Tony Nichols, who died in Perth on 24 August, aged 81. He and Judith went out with CMS to Salatiga, Indonesia 1972-81, training ministers at Wacana Christian University. God’s next appointment for him was as the third principal of Nungalinya College in Darwin. He hadn’t […]
Wisdom in white hair
Posted on: 29th August 2019
CMS missionaries Derek and Rosemary Snibson, in their 60s, recently began serving in Northern Australia. Read how God has led them – and how their age has conferred both joyful challenges and opportunities along the way. In mid-2018 we arrived in the Northern Territory. With encouraging support from the Diocese of the Northern Territory, our […]
Equipped to learn
Posted on: 21st August 2019
CMS Director of Training and Development David Williams has sought to strengthen cross-cultural mission training for CMS over the past 12 years. Here he explains the significance of our ongoing commitment to training, and why it begins long before a missionary arrives on location. Back in 1799, CMS discovered the importance of training missionaries. Sadly, […]
Big Picture People
Posted on: 5th August 2019
CMS missionaries Adrian and Anita Lovell taught Nataly and Noemy, Peruvian Christians, a Bible overview course. Nataly and Noemy taught what they had learned to others in their church in Bolivia, with exciting results. Peruvians Nataly and Noemy knew their Bible stories well. They’d been reading and teaching those Bible stories for years. But in […]
Begin in a small way – making self-replicating disciples
Posted on: 29th July 2019
CMS Missionaries W & C (serving in Asia) work in an international church, where they train leaders to be disciple-making disciples. Here they share four big things they’ve learnt during the course of this work. At the church where we serve, training the trainer is at the heart of all we do. We’re driven by […]
Head, heart and hands
Posted on: 22nd July 2019
CMS has had several decades worth of involvement in mission in French university ministry, with an ongoing focus through the Relais programme on training leaders who will train others. CMS missionary Caroline Evenden gives a sense of how gospel growth will continue through locals even after the departure of some of those long-term CMS workers. […]
Built on God’s word
Posted on: 15th July 2019
In this interview, CMS missionary Kylie Zietsch, who trains and mentors students at Johannesburg Bible College (JBC) South Africa, speaks to students Nhlanhla Zwane and Khanyi Mhlanga about their growing respect for and joy in the word of God. 1. What is the biggest thing you have learnt at JBC? Khanyi: For me, though […]
Review: Serving the Church, Reaching the World: Essays in honour of Don Carson
Posted on: 10th July 2019
Cunningham, Ed. Richard. Serving the Church, Reaching the World: Essays in honour of Don Carson SPCK, 2017. If you appreciated having Stefan Gustavsson speaking at various CMS Schools this January, you may well have wanted to follow up by reading some of his books. Sadly for those who are not fluent Swedish speakers, that has […]
Review: The Essence of the Reformation by Kristen Birkett
Posted on: 10th July 2019
Reviewed by Nicole Thatcher, who is studying Linguistics, Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. If you don’t really know how the Reformation fits together, or why it’s important to remember this period of history 500 years on, Kirsten Birkett’s The Essence of the Reformation is a must-read. It’s a concise and easy-to-follow overview […]
