God at work in small and big ways
Posted on: 29th June 2022
CMS missionaries Josh and Susannah Apieczonek work in church and university ministries in Lyon, France. Here Josh shares how Christians throughout Europe have been helping believers in Ukraine.
Serving Europe (and beyond) through theological education
Posted on: 23rd June 2022
CMS missionaries David and Cathie Sandifer serve at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands. They share some of the challenges and encouragements of ministering at Tyndale.
A great month for the gospel
Posted on: 20th June 2022
CMS missionary Gillian Law works with students in the Italian group Gruppi Biblici Universitari (GBU—the University Bible Group in Italy) to bring the gospel to other students. May 2022 was a great month for the gospel.
Learning to tell Bible stories
Posted on: 13th May 2022
CMS missionary Tanja French serves with her husband Jim in Valencia, Spain where she teaches adults through MOCLAM and children through Sunday school and Kids Clubs. She explains part of her challenge in adapting from a culture of written expression to one based on oral communication.
Responding to opportunity: making disciples in France – Checkpoint Autumn 2022
Posted on: 14th February 2022
CMS missionaries Josh and Susannah Apieczonek believe and model the truth that all Christians can be in a discipling relationship. Josh writes about how they live this out among French believers. What comes into your head when you hear the word ‘discipleship’? An intense three-hour weekly meeting of sanctification and edification? A Mr Miyagi mentor […]
Putting the Christmas story to music in Leipzig
Posted on: 13th December 2021
CMS missionaries Klaus and Jude Hickel serve at Leipzig English Church in Germany. Jude is also involved in composing and translating songs for use in church. She shares how she uses the Christmas season to ‘give’ the gospel through music. Living in Germany, I am spoilt with the trappings of Christmas. There are gorgeous Christmas markets, beautifully made advent wreaths, delicious biscuits, and […]
New hope for a new year
Posted on: 24th November 2021
CMS missionaries Daniel and Kate Morris work with the GBU (GroupesBibliquesUniversitaires de France), a group that evangelises, trains and disciples university students. They share how the new academic year has started for GBU in their region and the need for more workers to serve in France. A new beginning with new hope It’s the beginning of a new academic year in France, and […]
Checkpoint Summer 2021: What Jesus has done for me
Posted on: 11th November 2021
CMS missionaries Simon and Jess Cowell are serving in Bari, Italy, discipling university students. Simon and Jess reflect on witnessing to the revolutionary truth of what Jesus has done in meeting both religious and secular thinking with the gospel of grace. The threat of legalism Italy is steeped in spiritual legalism. Almost all Italians, even […]
A community of grace in Rome: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 8th September 2021
Leonardo De Chirico was due to be one of the speakers at CMS Summer Conferences throughout Australia in 2022. He will now be speaking in 2023. He is the pastor of Breccia di Roma, a church that he helped plant in Rome in 2009. Here he speaks of gospel ministry and opportunity in that city. […]
Growing churches in France: Checkpoint Spring 2021
Posted on: 1st September 2021
CMS missionary Kelly Landrigan is part of a new church plant, the Église Harmonie church in Cormeilles-en-Parisis. CMS missionaries Colin and Catherine Puffett are helping church plant in Nantes. They are unanimous: France needs more church planters. Kelly writes I live in Cormeilles, a centuries-old rural community that has now grown into a town of […]