Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Long-distance discipleship
Posted on: 4th March 2022
CMS missionaries Adrian and Anita Lovell serve in Bolivia where they teach the Bible through MOCLAM courses. Anita shares how studying God’s word has shaped and directed her former student, Roxana and her ministry. “Go and make disciples of all nations.” Such a straightforward command, and yet what does it look like to obey that […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Disciple-making disciples
Posted on: 2nd March 2022
CMS missionary Norm Gorrie (serving in Kenya with Janelle) is the Director of Mission for the Anglican Diocese of Marsabit, working under Bishop Qampicha. He writes about a recent strategy for helping leaders teach others to become more like Christ. Youth and children are a huge proportion of the population here in Kenya, and they […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Spontaneous ministry
Posted on: 23rd February 2022
CMS missionaries Dene and Rachel Hughes are committed to long-term discipling in the context of their church in Japan. Here they write about what that looks like in practice. Rachel writes: I have an increasing appreciation for opportunities to do ‘guerrilla’ ministry. I didn’t value it at first—impromptu, unofficial, seemingly unimportant—but I have come to […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Discipling postgraduates
Posted on: 21st February 2022
CMS missionaries Nathan and Diane Lovell serve at George Whitefield College in Cape Town, South Africa. Discipling looks a bit different when you are ministering to postgraduate students, as Nathan explains. The work of discipling can be quite different depending on the people you’re relating to and the relationship you have with them. Some […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: In joy and pain
Posted on: 18th February 2022
CMS missionaries Daniel and Kate Morris have had many years of experience in discipling students in France. Here Kate paints a picture of one such discipling relationship, with its joys and challenges. Daniel and I have lived and worked in France for almost 10 years alongside the Groupes Bibliques Universitaires (GBU, the University Bible Groups). […]
Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Understanding culture
Posted on: 16th February 2022
In Tanzania, CMS missionary Judith Calf trains pastors and evangelists for the Diocese of Lweru, while fellow missionary Tamie Davis (married to Arthur) serves with Tanzanians who work with university students in Dar es Salaam. Here they give two different perspectives on what ‘discipling’ can mean in the Tanzanian context. Judith writes: How culturally bound […]
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: 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, […]
Evangelism and discipleship continuing unhindered in rural Tanzania
Posted on: 12th March 2021
CMS missionaries Kevin & Karen Flanagan serve in Tanzania, where they are involved in evangelism, training and discipling. In some parts of the world, Coronavirus has placed many ministry activities on hold. In Tanzania, however, evangelism and discipleship continue unhindered. Here they describe their training as it looked towards the end of 2020. Evangelism continues […]
