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A story of hope

[Please note that initials have been used to protect the identity of CMS workers in secure locations].

Soon after arriving in Southeast Asia, CMS missionary R met S, a local mother who, like R, also had three children. As they watched their children play together, R (in her ‘beginner’ language) and S connected over familiar parenting challenges and discussed going to church.

S explained that she had never read the Bible for herself. R invited S to read the Bible with her and they met weekly for over nine months. She now notes:

I grew up in a family that went to church, but it was not usual for us to read the Bible. I only ever heard it read out in church and did not read it or understand it for myself.

They read through Colossians, did a brief Bible overview and the first 10 chapters of Matthew’s Gospel. R reflects:

I’ve loved seeing how my weakness in language hasn’t been a hinderance to [S] receiving God’s word as we simply open it up to read together.

S explains how reading the Bible with R has transformed her life:

Before reading the Bible with R I thought that I had to do good works in order to be worthy to enter heaven… But I had no assurance of salvation because I could never know if my works were good enough. Since reading the Bible with R I now see that it is only through God’s gift of his Son and his death on the cross that makes me worthy to live in his Kingdom.

S now knows lasting hope. She says of the Lord Jesus:

He is not only our role model of good works but our hope and assurance of salvation.

And she wants to see others growing in faith through the word of God:

I long to share the Bible’s message with my family… I want them to read the Bible for themselves and know [Jesus] more deeply.

CMS missionaries have strategic opportunities to disciple Christians like S in their locations, and your generous one-off donation to the Lasting Hope Appeal today can help that work continue and grow.

This year, we are inviting our supporters to give generously to the CMS Lasting Hope Appeal by 30 June 2023. There is an ongoing need to grow our regular giving to CMS, to help us confidently send and support our missionaries as we continue to work together for a world that knows Jesus.

If you are in a position to joyfully give, whether it be ongoing or as a generous one-off donation, please consider giving in 2023, knowing that your support will help enable our missionaries to continue sharing the gospel of lasting hope.

Your gift will help enable the strategic ministries of our workers to continue, so that more people would know the gift of God’s grace and live as disciples of Christ. Through the support of people like you within the CMS fellowship, God’s love is being proclaimed to people around the world through CMS workers.

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