Checkpoint Autumn 2022: Discipling through lockdown
Posted on: 28th February 2022
Both Frances Cook and Stefanie Overhall (with her husband Chris) serve with CMS in Chile, and both have needed to work out what discipleship looks like during lockdown when meeting face-to-face became difficult or impossible. Read on to discover how God worked through the challenges. Frances writes: The COVID pandemic in Chile has been long […]
Tension in comfort: Checkpoint Winter 2021
Posted on: 31st May 2021
CMS missionaries Nick and Kysha Davies serve in Peru, which has suffered high casualties and near economic disaster from COVID-19. They reflect on the faith of fellow believers, and some uncomfortable blessings, during this time. We felt and continue to feel an acute tension between our own experience, and that of our Peruvian brothers and […]
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. […]
Student ministry under lockdown: Checkpoint Winter 2021
Posted on: 19th May 2021
CMS workers L and J minister to international students in a region that has undergone significant COVID lockdown. What challenges have they faced, and what opportunities have come? We minister alongside international students. Here is what one Nigerian student, Theophilus, said about his experience of the pandemic: When Coronavirus cases were reported in other […]