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Found in translation

Tim Curtis has spent more than four decades at the edges, discovering life in God’s word

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Ukraine: giving thanks for all things

As a Christian, how do you hold on to the hope of God when there’s devastation all around?

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DR Congo: new hope rising

Church is a beacon of light for broken hearts, says mission partner Martin Gordon

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Carlisle: a grand re-opening

Mission partner celebrates a community-led Community Shed

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Mission and Migration conference

What happens when the global church moves right next door?

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Peace-building in South Sudan

In South Sudan, women leaders show the way in dialogue

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]]> CMS Magazine Winter 2026 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-community/cms-magazine-winter-2026/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:36:07 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=41863 All the stories from the Winter 2026 edition in one place

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Johanni’s journey: street life to full life

Thanks to steadfast support, she’s on a path to a bright future.

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A call to action:

Two decades of fighting to end Female Genital Mutilation

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New year, new trustees

Five new faces bring a wealth of expertise to the board

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Pioneer graduation celebration 2025

Students praise unique learning community and experienced guides

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]]> CMS Magazine Autumn 2025 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-community/cms-magazine-autumn-2025/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:13:22 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=40307 All the stories from the Autumn 2025 edition in one place

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From certain death to eternal life

The remarkable redemption of a cattle raider in South Sudan

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“Stars, I know who made you”

Read how I met the maker of stars and how this changed my life

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Church on the move in North India 

Growing hostility towards Christians leads to a new way of meeting

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Babies surviving and thriving in South Sudan

Mission partner sees dramatic fall in neonatal mortality

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Spiritual awakening in DR Congo

Interest in the gospel continues to grow amid troubles

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New book challenges Christians to decolonise mission

The mission of Jesus liberates, says Dr Harvey Kwiyani

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A ride to remember

Son of CMS mission partner plans a cycle challenge in memory of his father

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]]> CMS Magazine Summer 2025 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-community/cms-magazine-summer-2025/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:55:37 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=38298 All the stories from the Summer 2025 edition in one place

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Oman’s story

Rejected and shamed but still following Jesus: the beautiful story of one brave Nepali Christian

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Women at the centre

How a CMS-backed project is empowering indigenous women in northern Argentina to become leaders

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The “toast” of a new town

CMS Pioneer graduate whose unexpected journey to Jesus led to founding an unexpected church community

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An uphill climb

What if God called you to a place where in 20 or 30 years you might see two or three people come to faith?

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Living in freedom behind bars

In Florianópolis, Brazil, hundreds of prisoners are finding freedom in Jesus.

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The right help at the right time

Mission partners Elise and Jon Fletcher are helping people on the edges find strength and community

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Full audio Bible for Enxet people

Another people group now have the whole Bible available as an audiobook

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DR Congo: 10,000 victims of violence reached

A generous emergency response by CMS supporters helped local Christians meet the need

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]]> CMS Magazine Spring 2025 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-magazine-spring-2025/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:43:31 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=36457 All the stories from the Spring 2025 edition in one place

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From witch doctor to pastor

Read Badar’s extraordinary story of persistent faith, supported by Asia-CMS partners

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Nepal: a complicated time for Christians

Why supporting discipleship training is critical right now

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Good brews, good news

Star barista brings new life to Honduras social enterprise and finds new life with Jesus

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The powerful witness of women in the Middle East

Following Jesus makes them outsiders but they are helping hundreds of others do the same

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Sharing skills, community and Jesus

Mission partner Garry Ion reports on Carlisle’s Community Shed, from seasonal crafts to a former prisoner sharing his faith.

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Flood relief for Chaco communities

CMS gift supports urgent relief efforts by local church

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New toy business takes off in Tanzania

Dolls accessorised with recycled clothing prove popular for enterprising trainees

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God’s love for Goma

The CMS family responded generously to our emergency appeal for DRC. What’s been done, what is the situation now and what does the future hold?

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New chair of trustees appointed

Rev Jeremy Moodey, former CEO of Embrace the Middle East, will be the next CMS chair

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]]> CMS Magazine Winter 2025 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-community/cms-magazine-winter-2025/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:32:06 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=33967 All the stories from the Winter 2025 edition in one place

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“I chose Jesus”

Despite a rift with her family and great hardship, Mariam says she has no regrets about following Jesus

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Christians on the move

A great deal of what we call mission today really depends on migration. And in many ways, it always has, says Dr Harvey Kwiyani

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The fellowship on the roof

What happened when South Asian believers opened their home to serve their community?

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Journeying with Jonathan

Mission partner Sharon Wilcox has walked with a young man with learning difficulties for over a decade and seen him go from pity to possibility…

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Indigenous leaders equipped for ministry

Nine indigenous leaders recently graduated from a new mission and ministry training centre

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Small boy, big heart

Buckinghamshire boy donates his pocket money for mission

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Sixty baptisms on Christmas Day

Despite being in the centre of a conflict zone, the church is growing fast in eastern DRC, says Martin Gordon

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]]> CMS Magazine Autumn 2024 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-community/cms-magazine-autumn-2024/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:04:13 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=31892 All the stories from the Autumn 2024 edition in one place

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From armed militia to minister

What can make someone go from being part of an armed militia to a minister of the gospel?

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Sparks of new life in the Middle East

A young Syrian refugee labourer toiling in Lebanon had his eyes opened to Jesus through a magazine. And he’s not alone.

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Abunas – the 65th tribe?

A conversation about cultivating a new, transcendent tribe of peacemakers in South Sudan.

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Celebrating 25 years of breakfast (and baptisms)

How Hull mission partners made breakfast the most important meal of the community

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Pioneering Parishes: the word is getting out

Pioneering Parishes is about redirecting congregations’ energy outward into their local communities.

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Life change through carpentry

Doris, a deaf woman in Tanzania, is the first female carpentry trainee at a new workshop run by CMS mission partners

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Congolese students add to record intake for CMS pioneer training

CMS Pioneer Mission Training sees eight students join from Goma diocese

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New centre for mission and migration at crucial time

CMS to launch Acts 11 Project: Centre for Global Witness and Human Migration

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]]> CMS Magazine Spring 2024 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-community/cms-magazine-spring-2024/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:38:12 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=22643 All the stories from the Spring 2024 edition in one place

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A wake-up call

Read how one woman in northern Argentina went from losing everything to finding the light of Jesus

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Narin’s new chapter

The story of one man in Thailand reminds us that no one is invisible to God, and that God is often at work right in front of us

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Praying power and staying power

A humble prayer group has been supporting people in mission week in, week out, through more than two years of war

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225 years together

On 12 April 2024, CMS marked its 225th birthday. Our timeline celebrates our supporters’ role in achieving many mission milestones.

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Women: refusing to give up on peace

Joan Busolo, CMS Africa manager, talks to Naomi Rose Steinberg about peacemaking women

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Working together to bring hope

CMS partner launches new group to support women choosing to leave sex work in Thailand

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From landfill to new life in Brazil

A member of a community market in north east Brazil has turned his life around.

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Steps forward in rehab

More men are leaving addiction behind in Israel

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Tragedy, trauma, transformation

Refugees in northern Uganda are seeing how following Jesus makes peace possible

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Life on the inside

A prisoner from Brazil shares his story of finding the light and hope of Jesus amid the bleakness of life in prison.

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Unravelling a continuous creative thread

What started as churchyard clearance has grown into a multifaceted community project

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]]> CMS Magazine Autumn 2023 https://churchmissionsociety.org/blog/cms-community/cms-magazine-autumn-2023/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:43:25 +0000 https://churchmissionsociety.org/?p=19298 All the stories from the Autumn 2023 edition in one place

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More than a market

A project to save food waste and serve poor communities has led to changed lives in Brazil.

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Cleaning up the cleaning sector

Maritza has gone from being treated like a machine to being seen for her worth as a person.

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Nepal: remote possibilities

When her daughter was healed through the prayers of local Christians, Misha decided to follow Jesus. She now leads a church in her village.

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A secret disciple

The risks of losing job, family and community mean that some choose to keep faith a secret.

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Appetite for pioneering in the parish

New webinar-based training helps churches look outwards

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“There is life at the edges…”

In the summer, Church Mission Society celebrated how God is at work with partners from around the world

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To be: more curious, less furious

In the Gospels, Jesus asks dozens of questions. Do we have the courage to be curious, with Jesus?

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The cutting edge

Haircuts and mentoring carved a brighter future with Jesus for one young Honduran drawn into drugs and street life

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Learning to lay things down

Phil and Sylvie Good reflect on how Middle East mission meant laying aside not just home comforts but even the skills they had to offer

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The open table

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

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Making a difference to those on the edge of life

Piriyo, a young man in north east DR Congo, struggled to move around or do much more than sit on a mat outside his hut.

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Neema and Jigsaw: 20 years at the edges

Two pioneering CMS ventures notch up their 20th anniversary in 2023

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Awe and wonder

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

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Argentina: celebrations and farewells

After decades of loving service in northern Argentina, Catherine Le Tissier and Nick Drayson shared poignant farewells

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“Jesus, I’ll buy a Bible if my cat lives!”

Dayle’s journey from paganism to pioneering mission on her estate in Rotherham

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“I’m not done until I’m done”

Anti-FGM campaigner Ann-Marie Wilson shares her hard-won wisdom on how to keep going in mission

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Hope deferred, not lost

At the end of the world, CMS people in mission in Latin America reconnected with history and found renewed purpose

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CMS-backed ethical cleaners gain B Corp status

The award winning Clean for Good becomes the only cleaning company in the UK to be both an accredited Living Wage Employer and B Corp certified

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