A starter for 10

Meet some of the first students on CMS’s new MA pathway, focusing on the African Christian diaspora.

Sustainable fashion: Meet entrepreneur Maria Skoyles

Maria Skoyles is the CEO of The Dorcas Dress Project, supporting people to get out of poverty by sharing Jesus' love, providing skills training, resources and pastoral care.

Finding my place

Rosie Hopley shares why she’s joined the first cohort of students on the African Christian Diaspora route of the CMS MA course

How to… build a missional community

Paul Bradbury chooses "five smooth stones" to help us build sustainable groups of disciples with a purpose.

Post-colonial pioneering?

We talk to Harvey Kwiyani about a pioneering new course of study focusing on the impact of the African church in diaspora.

Start of a new movement?

"We’re hoping to create a movement of post-colonial missionaries able to work across cultures and races,” says Harvey Kwiyani.

Sedbury Space: a case study in rural pioneering

Janice Hamilton speaks about the impact her CMS pioneer training had in helping her to establish a Community Centre in a rural village.

“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

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.

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.