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Evangelism and garlic breath

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 by Stef Overhall

Stef is a CMS missionary in Santiago, Chile with her husband Chris and three children. Raised in a Christian home, the gospel fell into place for her on a youth camp when she was 12. She gives her time to raising kids, discipling women and studying…

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Local evangelism and global mission: Maintaining focus on the ends of the earth

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 by Scott Millar

I remember the moment clearly. For several years my wife and I had been weighing up the prospect of vocational ministry. I loved opening the Bible with people and helping them to know Jesus better, but I felt inadequate for the task of pastoral…

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Mission in the 21st century: When it’s for God’s glory…and when it isn’t

May 15, 2024May 22, 2024 by David Williams

My wife Rachel and I recently visited some CMS missionaries in South-East Asia. We met the pastor of their church–a wonderful, godly man who had just returned from a mission trip himself. He had been working in western Kenya, helping equip churches…

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Nurturing faith at school

May 7, 2024May 22, 2024 by Maree Jones

Bronwyn Windsor: How long have you been teaching Scripture (Special Religious Education)? Maree Jones: I began as a young uni student in the late 70s/early 80s in the Thirroul-Austinmer parish, so I taught at every little primary school from…

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The agony and ecstasy of the church prayer meeting

May 3, 2024May 22, 2024 by Simon Manchester

Desperation Please forgive two brief and tiny anecdotes which are to remind you that God is completely on top of His gospel mission. I was once telling God in my prayers that the days of ‘leading people to Christ’ seemed to be fast disappearing…

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A whirlwind interview with Rico Tice: on Chappo, the church and the gospel we preach

April 26, 2024May 22, 2024 by Micky Mantle

Rico Tice was until recently the Senior Minister for Evangelism at All Souls Langham Place in London where he served for nearly thirty years. From September 2023 he transitioned to working full time for the organisation that he founded, Christianity…

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The place to start with Catholics

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 by Anonymous

What can you say when a Catholic in your life talks about same-sex blessings? ‘It’s all OK now dear’. Those were the words of my fiercely Catholic mother when the Pope proclaimed that it was now acceptable for Catholic priests to bless same-sex…