Tanzania: upcoming visit

Please pray for Charles, an Africa mission associate, ahead of his trip to Tanzania, 27 May to 13 August. Please pray for safe travels, protection from illness and for productive time spent with colleagues there.

North Africa: CMS mission network meetings

Give thanks and pray for the gathering of CMS leaders and strategic partners over the past week, which is followed in the next few days by a meeting of CMS and SAMS sister organisations. Pray for lasting fruit from the discussions.

South East Asia: returning to the UK

Please pray for mission partners A and L and their children as they get organised and make the long journey to the UK. They ask for prayer for their helper’s family, whose daughter is in pain and preparing to give birth (and lost her first child before birth). Please pray for good medical care, a […]

South East Asia: safety and settling in

Please pray for mission partners B and M – for protection for B as he travels next month, for B’s visa for Ireland to come through and for the family as they settle into life in Ireland for their home leave.

Deaf joiner joins in new project

Work starts on new centre for people with disabilities in Tanzania

Jesus: pioneer of pioneers

As Jesus initiated newness, so he calls his followers to do the same, says Greg Bakker

Middle East: Gaza war

Tzachi Hanegbi, national security adviser to Israel’s prime minister, has gone on record as saying the war will go on at least until the end of 2024. Please pray for God to move in this situation and bring the war to an end much sooner than that. Pray for peace, justice and mercy in Israel […]

Pioneering ripples in Brazil

Jonny Baker reports from a design lab in Brazil looking at pioneering mission in Latin America.

Clown state

Tina Hodgett finds the similarities between pioneering and clowning hit her like a custard pie in the face.

New Anvil journal showcases students’ thinking

The latest issue of ANVIL journal of theology and mission features reflections on mission and pioneering from CMS students.

Brazil: flooding

Due to more heavy rain, river levels are again rising in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where flooding had already taken 150 lives and displaced over 150,000 people. Please pray for the people of Brazil and particularly Rio Grande do Sul as they try to recover from this tragedy.

Is everyone a pioneer?

Of course our gifts are not all the same, but congregations can enable newness...