Engaging deeply
Posted on: 15th June 2022
In this highly literate context, telling the story (rather than simply reading it) is helping people engage with the gospel. Those who memorise the narrative dwell deeply on the story as they see the patterns and the way it fits together.
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ministry and mercy under French lockdown
Posted on: 25th May 2021
CMS missionaries Josh and Susannah Apieczponek are ministering among university students in France. Here are some pictures of what ministry in Lyon looked like under Coronavirus in early to mid 2021. At the time of writing (and the situation changes from day to day and week to week), vaccinations are slowly but surely being delivered. […]
Reaching out during lockdown
Posted on: 17th March 2021
CMS missionaries Colin & Cath Puffett are serving in Nantes, France with a view to establishing a new church. Part of engaging with the community has involved caring for university students. Cath describes this part of the ministry here. When COVID-19 initially hit France in mid-March 2020, the country went into a strict lockdown. The announcement was […]
Beyond the facade
Posted on: 18th November 2020
CMS missionaries Daniel & Kate Morris, are serving in Lille, France. Kate challenges us to remember that Europe is not Christian, and explains why there is a great need for more gospel workers. What comes to mind when you picture Europe? Perhaps the spectacular beauty of the Notre Dame Cathedral in France, the glistening waters […]
From little things, big things grow
Posted on: 30th March 2020
What do you do when your two small children triple the size of your church Sunday school just by turning up? CMS missionary Kate Morris began in a small way to bring God’s word to the little people God was bringing to their church. Piercing notes of a child’s wails tore through parental chatter. A […]
By God’s grace: partnerships around the world
Posted on: 18th November 2019
Partnership and humility go hand in hand. Out of that humility and mutual grace, CMS missionaries (and those they work with) can report wonderful stories of gospel growth and spiritual progress. These are just a few of those stories from some of the places where we work: J in the Middle East: learning to listen […]
