Culture shock
Posted on: 10th March 2023
Malcolm and Ainsley are CMS missionaries serving in Chile, where they eventually hope to train and disciple future church leaders at the Centro de Estudios Pastorales (CEP, Centre for Pastoral Studies), a Bible college in Santiago. They have been focusing on building relationships and learning the Chilean language and culture, but even this is on […]
Rejoicing at sunset: Christmas in Chile
Posted on: 22nd December 2022
CMS missionary Chris Overhall serves with Stef and their three children in Santiago, Chile. Here, he explains how Chilean Christmas celebrations differ from Australian traditions, and tells the story of a very significant Christmas for his friend Diego. “We’ll sing together, hear from the Bible, have a special focus for children, and rejoice as the […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Discipling through lockdown
Posted on: 28th February 2022
Both Frances Cook and Stefanie Overhall (with her husband Chris) serve with CMS in Chile, and both have needed to work out what discipleship looks like during lockdown when meeting face-to-face became difficult or impossible. Read on to discover how God worked through the challenges. Frances writes: The COVID pandemic in Chile has been long […]
A long yarn: Checkpoint Autumn 2021
Posted on: 23rd February 2021
CMS missionary Frances Cook has served in Chile for more than 30 years. Here she speaks about the advantages of long-term mission, as well as some of the difficulties. Yesterday I had a long yarn by phone to Jacquie. I’d lived with her when I first arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile. We talked about family, […]
Mutiplying ministry over many decades: Checkpoint Autumn 2021
Posted on: 19th February 2021
CMS missionaries Adrian and Anita Lovell are Bible teachers who are committed to giving a vision of God’s great plan to the Spanish-speaking world. Here they share a small part of a long story. MOCLAM began as a course in Australia as part of a plan to introduce people to God’s big picture, revealed in […]
A week in our shoes
Posted on: 23rd September 2019
CMS missionaries Chris and Stef Overhall and their family, serving in Chile, are coming to terms with a very different shape to their week. A year and a half ago our family of five moved to Santiago, Chile. We serve here as part of the MOCLAM[1] team, making Jesus known through Bible training. Our first […]
Training together in Chile
Posted on: 21st May 2019
CMS Missionary Frances Cook teaches Introductory Greek and Church History at the Chilean Anglican Seminary in Santiago. Here she describes an exciting story of CMS’s support of a theological seminary that makes well-rounded, self-replicating disciples. The Chilean Anglican Seminary, CEP, began in 2003. Since then, around 60 people have graduated, half of whom are now […]
Review: Guidance and the Voice of God
Posted on: 10th February 2019
Guidance and the Voice of God by Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne Reviewed by CMS missionaries Adrian & Anita Lovell, Chile This book had the biggest impact on us as far as guidance goes (although not specific to mission). I (Adrian) found it incredibly liberating to know that as Christians we have a lot of freedom—”God’s […]
God of the living word
Posted on: 14th January 2018
CMS missionary Frances Cook has confronted some extraordinary superstitions in her 30 years serving in Chile. In her role as teacher of Reformation church history at the Centre for Pastoral Studies in Santiago, she helps explain why Latin America has a profound need to trust in Scripture alone.
