coronavirus Archives - CMS Australia

Understanding honour and shame through Coronavirus

Posted on: 1st December 2021

CMS missionaries Dave and Leoni Painter teach at Phnom Penh Bible College in Cambodia. Here they explain how COVID works in a culture of honour and shame. Different responses to COVID Like most places in the world, mask wearing in Phnom Penh is now ubiquitous, well almost. In early March, masks became compulsory along with a heavy […]

The gift of friendship

Posted on: 15th July 2021

Moving to another culture brings with it many unexpected joys and challenges. CMS missionaries Matt and Jen Lim shared this insight into the blessing of friendship. “This year we couldn’t celebrate our son Obi’s 6th birthday with a party for his group of friends. Instead, we had a small celebration where he got to choose some of his favourite things including banana […]

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Mission in Taiwan: Checkpoint Winter 2021

Posted on: 28th May 2021

CMS missionaries Sam and Shan-Shan Chrisp are in the refreshing context of a country where COVID did not spread as expected. Sam writes that even in Taiwan they have still been discussing questions of why God allows the suffering that COVID has caused. In the early days of the COVID outbreak, scientists predicted Taiwan would […]

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Unexpected lessons: Checkpoint Winter 2021

Posted on: 26th May 2021

CMS missionaries Ian and Jenny Wood are teachers at Nungalinya College in Darwin, a theological college for Indigenous students. Their first year of ministry in North Australia coincided with the arrival of the Coronavirus. In February 2020, Jenny and I set out for Numbulwar on the Arnhem Land coast, to learn. We’d just arrived in […]

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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, […]

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COVID-19: An August 2020 update from CMS International Director Peter Rodgers.

Posted on: 21st August 2020

August 2020: CMS International Director Peter Rodgers gives another update about what Coronavirus means for the gospel work of CMS. In Philippians 1:21 Paul writes from prison, “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” These words are perhaps the clearest statement in the Bible of what it means to be a […]

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Trapped in Japan, but ministering in the Middle East

Posted on: 2nd June 2020

K is a Japanese-speaking CMS worker in the Middle East who focuses on working with the Japanese diaspora community. The COVID-19 crisis has seen her caught in Japan, where she previously worked for many years. Here is a wide-ranging reflection on how God is using this time to both test her, and to give gospel opportunities online. This includes continuing to […]

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