CMS course in contextual mission launches in South West

Students from Bristol Diocese have joined the South West Pioneering Hub for a new course

Ultrarunning, encounter and paying attention

A conversation with Dr Gavin Mart about his doctoral research with CMS exploring ultrarunning as a site of spiritual encounter

Carlisle: a grand re-opening

Mission partner celebrates a community-led Community Shed

South West: the pioneer stories continue…

CEO Andy Roberts celebrates a pioneering graduation and reflects on the call to follow Jesus to unconventional and new places

UK: Pioneer Mission Training programme

CMS is hosting two open days next week: on-site in Oxford on Tuesday 21 April and online on Wednesday 22 April. These events are designed to help prospective students explore CMS Pioneer Mission Training options, including streams focused on African Christianity, Asian Christianity, children’s, family and youth work. Pray for people to attend these open […]

Equinox retreat

As we cross the threshold into autumn, we gather in the Lake District to reflect on the horizons within us and beyond us.

UK and global: Following the Fringe Dweller

Give thanks for the approximately 2,000 people who are journeying through Lent with CMS, using our Fringe Dweller resource. Please pray that this resource will be meaningful for people and that  many will be challenged to consider what following Jesus to the edges looks like in their lives and neighbourhoods.

UK: mission and migration

CMS’s Acts 11 Project exists to facilitate a sustained conversation on the implications of migration for Christian faith and mission. Pray for the Acts 11 team as they pursue possible partnerships and plan events to encourage people not just to think more deeply on this topic, but to engage others in their churches and communities […]

UK: Community Shed Carlisle

We give thanks with mission partner Garry Ion for a huge answer to prayer! Following the closure of Carlisle’s Community Shed in October 2025, the local community was able to raise money to start the project up again. Garry and the Community Shed team are now in the process of setting up in a new […]

Living your faith in public

If you’ve been thinking of booking your place on the Faith in Public course then don’t wait any longer. Spaces are filling up.

What’s the point of church?

Do we see the church and its ongoing life as “a discerning conversation”, asks Paul Bradbury

Webinar: Dreaming from a place of lament

Cathy Ross explores lament as the catalyst for healing and something new. Watch the recording.