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It’s mental health awareness week, so we are focusing on some of the work pioneers are doing in that arena. Church Mission Society sent out a press release today to highlight this. As we recently featured on the blog, Mark and Jess Bamping launched Candid (pictured) over the Easter weekend, which is set to become a thriving …
Jeanette Hewes is a lay pioneer training with the St Cedd Centre for Pioneer Mission, a pioneer training hub that is a partnership between Church Mission Society and the Diocese of Chelmsford. Here she shares how she learned her calling had a name – Pioneer! I was born into a non-Christian family which was very …
On 7 May Church Mission Society, with Frontier Youth Trust, will be hosting a day on pioneering with youth and children. It will be a great opportunity for church or community youth, children and families workers to be inspired and encouraged by hearing stories from innovative practitioners.
In a recent blog on this site Ann-Marie Wilson wrote: “being a pioneer you don’t want to become an irritant in your home community or your home church. Because if you don’t take people along with you then actually you’ve lost the purpose of being pioneering.” But taking people along with you can be tricky. Some …
Rachel Burton is a former CMS short term mission partner to Bolivia and is now studying on the Pioneer course. Rachel joined us for the Mission and Evangelism weekend. HH: Rachel, please tell us a bit about your interest in mission. RB: I remember having an interest in mission from a young age, and often …
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Paul Bradbury, South Central RTP Pioneer Hub coordinator, based here at CMS, has a new book that reflects deeply on the prophet Ezekiel as we continue the task of re-imagining church for our day. Paul thinks that in the prophecy of the valley of the dry bones, there is not only a pattern for renewal but …
The conversations day on Monday was really thought-provoking. You can re-watch the live-streamed sessions below (or on the Church Mission Society Facebook page): Video 1: keynote Jonny Baker leads opening reflections. Stefan Paas, Professor of Missiology at the Theologische Universiteit, Kampen, Netherlands, gives a keynote on “Pilgrims and Priests: Christian mission in a post-Christian culture”. …
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Jane is studying with us at level 6, having joined us at Year 2 of our diploma course; and kindly offered to host the Bible in Context for us last month HH: Firstly, Jane, can you tell me a bit about yourself as a person, your ministry and work, please? JG: I am a retired …
Read moreThe gems that life is made of – Jane Gray on hosting the Bible in Context course
What has a gecko to do with mission in Birmingham? Well, as students with CMS Pioneer Mission Leadership Training recently discovered, it is just one of many beautiful creatures – both animal and human – that find a welcome at Newbigin House in Winson Green. “It is run as a community house, where anyone is …
Ann-Marie Wilson is best known for founding the anti-FGM research charity 28 Too Many, which recently won a major legal award (you can hear us talking about that too on the accompanying audio). More recently Ann-Marie also became a pioneer lay minister in north London and took up a chaplaincy role just over a year …