The issues of migration and the refugee crisis have scarcely been out of the news these last few months. This time on Audiomission, we'll hear three different perspectives on these issues from a variety of places around the Mediterranean. We meet: Doug Marshall, who with his wife Jacqui and their children is a CMS mission partner working among refugees in Malta; a mission partner based in Spain and working to support Arab Christians across North Africa; Adel Shokralla, an Egyptian priest who has...
Nov 18, 2015•22 min
This month we start an occasional series themed around what are known as the "five marks of mission", developed by the Anglican Communion. The first mark of mission is "to proclaim the good news of the kingdom". We meet: Victor Osoro, who leads the evangelism department in the Diocese of Toliara, Madagascar, who reports extraordinary church planting; Jean and Paul Dobbing, recently returned from serving in Nepal, where they have watched the local church reach out to the furthest parts of the cou...
Nov 18, 2015•19 min
This month we meet people from India, South Sudan and the Philippines, who are all living and working alongside marginalised people in difficult places, often dealing with difficult issues. They are committed to sharing life together as well as making a real difference. Featuring Stephen Lubari, Eric and Sandra Read, and mission partners working in northern India.
Sep 30, 2015•24 min
Audio booklet "Welcome to the CMS Community" outlining the purpose and practice of the CMS mission community.
Sep 04, 2015•8 min
August sees many short term mission teams heading off on trips of just a few weeks to connect with Christians in another culture. Others are preparing to travel for a gap year or a career break. This month we meet five people who have all been involved in short term mission from three months to two years. Featuring Alan and Lex Hamilton, Irina Dale and Gavin and Hannah Steele.
Aug 10, 2015•22 min
Last month saw two landmark days in the development of cross cultural mission work in the UK – with both African and Asian Christians emphasising this month's theme of "let's work together". At Lambeth Palace, CMS launched its Prayer and Aware campaign to throw the spotlight on mission to and from Asia and Asians. We hear from the Rev Rana Khan, chair of the CMS Asia Forum. The other landmark was the conference, held at CMS in Oxford, of Missio Africanus, an organisation we learn more about with...
Jun 30, 2015•20 min
A special edition about the value of long term mission. It's something that is becoming less fashionable, even derided, but we'll be hearing from two long term CMS mission partners – and from the Anglican Bishop of Bolivia (himself a long term mission partner from Singapore) who thinks their contribution is vital! Featuring: Dr Corrie Verduyn, CMS mission partner at Kiwoko hospital, Uganda. Canon Patricia Wick, CMS mission partner just returned to the UK after more than a decade in South Sudan. ...
Jun 01, 2015•24 min
Today Jeremy Woodham talked to CMS mission partner Paul Dobbing about his experience of the Nepal earthquake, what the aftermath means for some of his friends and insights for prayer. Sorry about the variable sound quality down the Skype line!
May 01, 2015•8 min
We hear stories of two CMS Timothy mission partners this month – that's local mission leaders supported by CMS to follow their calling in their own part of the world. We'll travel to Paraguay, Rwanda and also take in some voices from the CMS Community Vision Day that kicked off the year – hopefully it will inspire you to get involved in the next community day – a day of action on creation care on 7 June. See www.cms-uk.org/sos Featuring: Manasseh Tuyizere, a CMS Timothy partner in Rwanda who hea...
May 01, 2015•22 min
This month we focus on training and we'll discover more about: what you can expect from the preparation offered by CMS if you serve through one of our People in Mission programmes; how African-inspired training is empowering minority Christians in Pakistan to reach out to their communities; how African missionaries are getting trained in Brazil by CMS people. Featuring: Marcus Throup, CMS mission partner in Brazil, mission associate Peter Massey, short termer Charlotte Spear and Aamir Shahzad, o...
Mar 30, 2015•22 min
Church Mission Society mission partner Andrew Leake describes recent developments in mapping and fighting deforestation of the Chaco by big business.
Mar 24, 2015•6 min
Church Mission Society mission partner Kailean Khongsai, who works with Christian conservation charity A Rocha, talks about how growing things together builds community.
Mar 24, 2015•5 min
Church Mission Society mission partners Anna and Chris Hembury talk about hope they are seeing hope grow in an area of deprivation in Hull - including transforming a patch of waste ground into a community garden.
Mar 24, 2015•8 min
Church Mission Society mission partners Catherine and Bishop Nick Drayson discuss northern Argentina's top priorities of faith, family and forest.
Mar 24, 2015•7 min
With the Women's world day of prayer and International Women's Day this month – we focus on women in leadership. First we travel to Nepal to hear about what in that culture is a radical women's leadership training programme. Then Spain, where a CMS partner is caring for vulnerable women in her community on the edge of Madrid. We also hear how a CMS partner is promoting women's leadership in a very traditional culture in DR Congo. Featuring: In Nepal, CMS Timothy mission partner Manoj Pradhananga...
Dec 22, 2014•22 min
This month we journey to some very marginal places. We'll hear a special interview with mission partner Helen Burningham, who was dramatically evacuated from South Sudan, and we'll hear from a church community in southern Chile, led by CMS Latin partner Joel Millanguir. Plus, Nepal: CMS Timothy mission partner Ram Prasad Shrestha talks church planting and slum schools. Also featuring a reflection from the Rt Rev Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham, and a former chair of CMS trustees. Audiomission from...
Dec 22, 2014•25 min
Mission among young people is the theme of this month's Audiomission. We travel from Taiwan to Uganda to Peru, finding out how young people are becoming followers of Jesus and how the church is working hard to change societies' attitudes to vulnerable children. Featuring: Richard Rukundo, children's ministry coordinator fro the Church of Uganda, and a CMS Timothy mission partner. Catherine Lee, CMS mission partner in Taiwan, and Pat Blanchard, CMS mission partner in Peru. Also featuring a reflec...
Dec 22, 2014•22 min
"Jesus' example is: you get out on mission from day one." Third of a series of talks given at CMS's Africa conference 2014 at The Hayes, Swanwick, on 16 November, by the Rt Rev Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham. The first voice you will hear is Faith Gichuhi of CMS Africa reading Matthew 10:1-16.
Nov 17, 2014•20 min
"Discipleship begins before conversion and call." Second of a series of talks given at CMS's Africa conference 2014 at The Hayes, Swanwick, on 15 November, by the Rt Rev Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham. The first voice you will hear is Sally Ashcroft, a former CMS mission partner, reading Matthew 9:18-38.
Nov 17, 2014•21 min
"Jesus is committed to reaching those outside." First of a series of talks based on Matthew's Gospel given at CMS's Africa conference 2014 at The Hayes, Swanwick, on 14 November, by the Rt Rev Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham. The first voice you will hear is Peter Hyatt, a CMS trustee, reading from Matthew 9:9-17.
Nov 17, 2014•29 min
We look at some of the big issues in the world that can often seem overwhelming. We'll hear honest reflections - and stories of hope - about disability, deforestation and human trafficking. With CMS short termer Rebecca Flitcroft who worked in trafficking education and awareness in India, CMS mission partner Andrew Leake who works to conserve forest in northern Argentina, and CMS mission partners Christine and Paul Salaman, working with the Anglican Church in Tanzania.
Oct 06, 2014•22 min
Travel round the world to meet members of the CMS family: people whose lives have been changed beyond recognition as they have responded to the one whose birth we will soon be celebrating – Jesus Christ. Featuring: mission partner Ruth Hulser, the health coordinator for the Diocese of Tabora and runs the diocesan St Philip’s Health Centre in Tanzania. Plus: mission partners Angela and Chris have spent 10 years in Egypt working with Coptic Orthodox and Anglican churches. And we meet a whole famil...
Oct 06, 2014•23 min
Interviews with CMS people in mission on three continents – all with something to say to shed light on this month's theme of community mission. Hope grows in Hull... serving Syrian refugees in Cairo... missional communities in Chile... Featuring CMS mission partners including Anna and Chris Hembury and short termer Tyler Overton.
Sep 30, 2014•22 min
A strong environmental strand in the mix this time, from the threatened forest landscape of northern Argentina to transforming both places and people in forgotten corners of London, by way of Tanzania. Featuring mission partners Catherine and Nick Drayson, Kailean Khongsai and short termer Elsbeth Priestley.
Jul 30, 2014•21 min
In this "Asia Special" we meet some of the key players in the recently launched Asia-CMS as well as mission partners in Nepal. Featuring Loun Ling Lee, Berdine van den Toren and Paul Dobbing.
Jul 30, 2014•22 min
We hear the stories of three women who have become 'firsts': mission partner Bertha Schoonbee in Rwanda became the first coach of the Rwandan national Goalball team - much to her surprise! Nolavy from Madagascar became the first woman in her Province of the Anglican Communion to graduate from theological college. And Bishop Pushpa is the first woman bishop in the Church of South India!
Jun 27, 2014•22 min
Samuel Ajayi Crowther was perhaps the most outstanding African Christian of the 19th century. To mark the 150th anniversary of his consecration as bishop in 1864, we tell his life story in a special edition of Audiomission narrated by Burt Caesar and featuring contributions from Professor Andrew Walls and John Martin. (This was first published in 2007 to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade and the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel in Nigeria through Crowther's m...
Jun 18, 2014•14 min
Sara Afshari of Sat-7 Pars talks about Christian broadcasting across the Persian world and Tim Curtis gives an insight into Bible translation in rural Paraguay. And, as booking opens for the Church Mission Society's 2014 Africa conference, we find out what goes on.
May 30, 2014•22 min
Audio podcast about the Biological water filter project produced by the Church Mission Society (CMS)
May 06, 2014•8 min
In Pakistan, Ukraine and Uganda, CMS mission partners have returned to their true 'homeland': to love others as we were first loved. In Pakistan, mission partners who must remain anonymous talk about the brave Christians - and Muslims - they know who are making a real difference in society. In remote northwest Uganda, mission partners Allan and Anne Lacey discovered the depths of relationship in Christ with brothers and sisters there, and in Ukraine, Alison Giblett helps people find true love an...
May 01, 2014•22 min
