“God who works in the midst of journeys”: interview with Bryce Tangvald

Bryce Tangvald's journeys following Jesus have taken him from Colorado to Australia to Somerset. I asked Bryce, who is a third-year diploma student at CMS, more about his story and his experience of discovering pioneering.

Welcome to Minecraft Church

We talk to CMS pioneer graduate Kevin Colyer about building a rich Christian community of gamers in a fantastically creative virtual world

Intercultural Church: Shared learning from new communities

Intercultural church is essential for the future of church, says CMS pioneer MA graduate Idina Dunmore in a new Grove book she has written in collaboration with two other pioneers.

Looking forward, looking back

Lessons from the first 10 years of Pioneer Mission Leadership Training, and challenges for the future.

Another way of seeing – developments of the pioneer spectrum

The creators of the Pioneer Spectrum, Paul Bradbury and Tina Hodgett, reflect on the popularity and the flaws of this diagram and how they have been working to develop it into a useful missional tool.

Warriors of the Human Spirit Part 3: Free healing and an open table

Johnny Sertin's final post imagines a new kind of warrior and what they might look like

Warriors of the Human Spirit Part 2: Sing a new song.

Johnny Sertin called for a re-imagining of the warrior and explores what can sustain a warrior of the human spirit.

Warriors of the Human Spirit Part 1: A new hope!

Johnny Sertin imagines a new kind of warrior in the first of a series of three blog posts exploring a more-than-military metaphor

New pioneer graduates for Christmas!

Congratulations to the 23 people who have celebrated their graduation from CMS Pioneer Mission Leadership Training, in the first ever - and we hope the last - Zoom-based graduation service.

Lambs among wolves: re-reading Luke 10

Feeling awkward about judgment? James Butler re-reads a classic mission passage and re-imagines the scene from the bottom up.

Invitation to a changed life

Equipping former sex offenders for a positive future is the challenging work of the latest initiative launched by a graduate of the CMS Pioneer course.

Three big questions for Pioneers from the Bible

When Joe Hasler was invited to join a collective of Pioneer Ministers, he thought he had better start thinking about what kind of theology might underlie the idea.