Reaching the lost
Posted on: 17th August 2022
CMS has made a deliberate decision to focus on mission in locations close to Australia for many years, while not losing sight of other places where CMS missionaries continue to serve. Here CMS International Director Peter Rodgers explores why mission in our region is strategic. The gospel radiates out, beginning close at hand Following the […]
God’s word is not chained: Checkpoint Winter 2021
Posted on: 14th May 2021
CMS International Director Peter Rodgers considers the challenges of a global pandemic and turns to the Bible to encourage us to rejoice, persevere, and trust God. You might imagine that as the world shut down due to the pandemic, global mission was put on hold. However, that has not been so! And when we turn […]
COVID-19: An August 2020 update from CMS International Director Peter Rodgers.
Posted on: 21st August 2020
August 2020: CMS International Director Peter Rodgers gives another update about what Coronavirus means for the gospel work of CMS. In Philippians 1:21 Paul writes from prison, “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” These words are perhaps the clearest statement in the Bible of what it means to be a […]
Could you go?
Posted on: 13th April 2020
Around the world, there are vast needs, and many opportunities, to reach youth and children with God’s love in the Lord Jesus Christ. Here CMS International Director Peter Rodgers asks: could you go? A fundamental aim for this particular edition of Checkpoint has been to challenge our readers to support ministry amongst children and youth, […]
A Picture of Strong Partnership
Posted on: 4th November 2019
Serving in partnership is at the core of the work of CMS. In this article International Director Peter Rodgers writes about the joy of partnership under God, highlighting our relationship with the growing church in Nepal. I recently visited our workers and partners in Nepal. It was a joyful time! The Nepali church is one […]
A pastoral visit to the Webbs in Broome
Posted on: 6th November 2018
In September 2018, CMS International Director Peter Rodgers went on one of CMS’s annual pastoral visits to support the Webb family in Broome. Here he gives some first-hand observations about their work, including his warm endorsement of how they are coping with the cultural differences that they encounter. First things first, because the purpose of a pastoral […]
Review: Ministering Cross-Culturally
Posted on: 10th September 2018
Book recommendation: Ministering Cross-Culturally by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers. 3rd edition. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016. This brief, easy-to-read book is subtitled ‘A model for effective personal relationships’ and draws heavily on the mission experience of Lingenfelter (the primary author) and others. The aim of this book, which is both liberally illustrated […]
Never-changing gospel for an ever-changing world
Posted on: 26th February 2018
CMS Australia International Director Peter Rodgers explains how the unchanging nature of the CMS vision assists us in facing the constant challenges of change in the twenty-first century. A rapidly changing world We are living through an age of rapid and unprecedented change: information generation, communication and genetic engineering are just some of the areas […]
2017 CMS Annual Federal Council: Reasons to praise God
Posted on: 12th November 2017
The Annual Federal Council is the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Church Missionary Society – Australia (CMS-A). The 2017 Annual Federal Council took place on 27–29 October. CMS-A’s International Director/CEO, Peter Rodgers, reports on some of the highlights and developments within CMS in the last year.
God’s mission, our vision
Posted on: 30th May 2016
What would it take to see a world that knows Jesus? With more than 2 billion people that still have little access to the gospel, some recent research said if the Australian Church was serious in doing its part we would need to increase our missionary numbers 10 fold. Peter Rodgers writes…
