Checkpoint Autumn 2022: A hard conversation brings insight
Posted on: 25th February 2022
CMS missionary Shan-Shan Chrisp, with her husband Sam, is serving in Taiwan. In this article she tells how tension in a discipling relationship led to deep and valuable insights. I had been discipling a Christian woman from church by meeting one-to-one with her and working through Paul’s letter to the Colossians. One time as we […]
Discipling takes time – even for Jesus: Checkpoint Autumn 2022
Posted on: 14th February 2022
CMS workers Andrew and Liz Glover serve at International Christian Fellowship (ICF), in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where Andrew is the senior pastor. In this article Andrew reflects on the centrality of Jesus and the Bible to the process of discipling. The example of Jesus By the time Peter makes his famous declaration that Jesus is […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: MOCLAM discipleship in Spain
Posted on: 14th February 2022
CMS missionaries Jim and Tanja French, serving in Valencia, Spain, are passionate about discipling Spanish people to grow in maturity in Christ. Here Jim briefly discusses the why, what and how of their current ministry. We have been in Spain for just under three years working with the MOCLAM team. [1] Through the MOCLAM work […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Following Christ across cultures
Posted on: 10th February 2022
Wei-Han Kuan is the Executive Director of CMS Victoria. Here he explores the question of what it means to be a disciple of Christ across cultures—and the implications for every person in the CMS fellowship. ‘Disciple’ is a Christian word that occurs some 260 times in the New Testament. A disciple is a follower: the […]
Discipling through training
Posted on: 24th January 2022
CMS missionary Kellie Nicholas has been working with university students in Japan since 2008. She works with the KGK (Kirisutosha Gakusei Kai), a Christian student movement affiliated with IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students). Kellie shares how some of the most encouraging discipling relationships have happened almost unexpectedly through training students in leadership. In 2018, […]
Planting gospel seeds one conversation at a time
Posted on: 2nd July 2021
CMS worker E lives in a Muslim-majority country in South Asia. The established church is very small where she lives and being a Christian is hard, especially for local people. She shares some of the gospel connections she has made as she continues to learn language and culture. I’ve been in my country a little over two years, learning […]
Taiwan: Gospel to grandma and beyond
Posted on: 4th June 2021
CMS missionaries Sam and Shan-Shan Chrisp are learning language and culture as they prepare to work with students in Taiwan. Here Sam shares some recent answers to prayer for ministry opportunities. Sharing the gospel Over Easter, Shan-Shan was able to use her imperfect Taiwanese to share the gospel stories of Jesus’ death and resurrection with a local […]
An intentional approach to student ministry
Posted on: 27th April 2021
CMS missionaries Arthur and Tamie Davis are passionate about gospel ministry to university students. They work with TAFES—the Tanzanian Fellowship of Evangelical Students, which is part of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). They share how TAFES workers are thinking strategically in their approach to campus ministry. How do you make an impact among students? This has been the question […]
