Living theology
Posted on: 27th February 2023
CMS missionaries Mike and Karen Roe serve in Cape Town, South Africa, where Mike teaches systematic theology at George Whitefield College to students from across Sub-Saharan Africa. Mike reflects on the place of discipleship in theological education. “I have been watching you these two years. To see what kind of man you are.” My west […]
Partners in truth
Posted on: 20th February 2023
CMS missionaries Dan and Olivia Webster serve in Namibia, where Dan helps to train local gospel workers at the Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary (NETS).[1] Dan reflects on how the Lord has worked through the long-standing partnership between CMS and NETS to declare the good news of Jesus Christ, the serpent-crusher. “Mamba. Big one.” The […]
The name that calms our fears
Posted on: 9th February 2023
CMS missionary Mike Taylor serves with Katie in Tanzania, training local church leaders. Here, he reflects on the power of the gospel of grace to release people from slavery to fear. “’I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! […]
Grace in action
Posted on: 25th October 2021
In one East African language, grace and mercy are the same word. CMS missionaries serving in East Africa have seen grace and mercy in action at the Bible College where they work. What do you do when widespread sexual immorality emerges in a Bible College? In March 2021 some concerned students reported to the deputy principal that all was not well in the college community. They told of an unmarried student sleeping with a person from the […]
An alphabet of ministry in the Northern Territory
Posted on: 14th October 2021
In early 2021 Wayne Oldfield and Mandy Jones finished up more than a decade of service at Nungalinya College in the Northern Territory, working alongside Aboriginal Christians. In one of their final newsletters, they looked back over this time. Scroll down to see the ‘Alphabet’ of their gospel ministry in and through Nungalinya College. We have come to the end of our […]
Grace against the grain
Posted on: 9th October 2021
CMS workers Jon and Deborah have served in theological education and training in South East Asia for more than a decade. In this article Jon shares the challenge of teaching grace in a culture that values ‘works’. I teach in a rural Bible College in South East Asia, and every year I meet new students who have been brought up with a ‘works theology,’ that emphasises being good and doing […]
The benefits of long-term
Posted on: 1st March 2021
CMS missionary Andrew Buchanan, married to Abi, has taught in Indonesia for two decades. It has been continual learning. A few months ago, I taught a Masters’ level class on the New Testament in Toraja. We looked at a number of issues such as honour-shame, rituals and taboos, even literacy, to highlight the areas where local Toraja culture connects with the world of the Bible in ways that Western interpreters are not that interested in. For […]
Mutual respect the key to long-term in Tanzania
Posted on: 26th February 2021
Godfrey Mbelwa is Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Lweru in Tanzania. Here he speaks to CMS missionary Judith Calf of the long-term relationship between CMS and the Church in Tanzania. I first met Godfrey Mbelwa in 1998, when I was at St Andrew’s Hall , where he had just arrived to commence his theological studies in Melbourne. Little could I imagine that more than 20 years later I would have the privilege of serving in […]
