Garry Ion, Britain

Supporting and connecting with people on the margins, especially men, through practical work in Community Shed groups.

CMS Conversations Day 2022

The 10th gathering for Church Mission Society’s annual Conversations Day will focus on sustainability and lasting change in mission.

Mission and disabled people

Tim Rourke shares research on how attitudes, access and agency are often missing when the church talks about mission and the disabled community.

Triple promise: new south-west pioneer training hub begins

Three south-west dioceses have come together to host a training hub for the CMS Certificate in Pioneer Mission.

The valley in the hand

Do our formulas and systems just get in the way of what lies at the heart of mission?

A starter for 10

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

Video: If We Kept Silent the Stones Would Cry Out

Gospel artist and praise and worship minister Ahmed Conteh reflects on the spirituality and vibrancy of worship and music in African churches.

Video: Legacies of Five Nigerian Women Pioneer Ministers in London

Dupe Adefala on a largely untold story of the distinctive and pioneering contribution of African women to mission in London

African congregations adapting to COVID-19

Harvey Kwiyani and Paul Ayokunle identify the distinct way in which the pandemic was understood and confronted as both a spiritual and medical battleground.

Finding my place

“Isn’t Christianity the white man’s religion?” Rosie Hopley is on a quest to unearth a broader, wider and more global narrative.

Rivers in the desert

Sheila Akomiah-Conteh argues that African Christianity is a revitalising force in British Christianity.

African millennial Christians in the diaspora and the identity question

Joseph Ola explores the way a younger generation of African Christians in Britain face the challenges of dual identity.