Letting Photos Speak

A new book co-authored by a past participant on CMS's Make Good course helps you practically explore 'contemplative photography'.

South West Hub grows in Cornwall

Sally Taylor and Lindsey Morgan-Lundie report on "extending the walls of the tent" as a new cohort of pioneer students in the South West Hub camp out in Cornwall.

How not to evangelise among Westerners

In this post, Dr Harvey Kwiyani, African Christianity Programme Lead at CMS Pioneer Mission Training, reflects on non-Western evangelists in the West and how not to evangelise!

“Faith is the foundation”

Helen Harwood talks to undergraduate student Laura Evans about friendship, inspiration and starting on the pioneer journey.

The open table

Johnny Sertin surveys a landscape of hope and healing across post-Christian Britain

Hack to the Future – at Greenbelt and beyond

CMS web developer Madeline Linnell has news about a new project to hack solutions to pioneer problems

Awe and wonder

The CMS Certificate reawakened Sarah Carney's creativity and gave her a vision for an art exhibition.

By God’s Grace

A massive health scare took first year diploma student Paul Latham to church. An astonishing recovery led him to put all his skills and energy into God's service.

Working on our posture

Activist and author Shane Claiborne paid a visit to Church Mission Society for a lively conversation about mission.

Everywhere you look, grace lives

Tina Hodgett travelled from Somerset to Seattle to be inspired by a very place-based conference with a focus on restoring neighbourhoods.

Lay Pioneering and Thriving in Mission – a New Grove Book

We need to listen more carefully to the experience and gifts of informal, grassroots pioneers, says James Butler, introducing his new Grove book on lay pioneers.

My word – indigenous!

Jonny Baker enthuses over the latest issue of Anvil: we have so much to learn from indigenous perspectives