Joy and Angus

Dear Praying Friends,

We are over half-way through this short trip to India.  The Lord has been showing us more about what He wants us to do long-term here.  We believe we should focus on teaching the ‘Victorious Christian Life’

(VCL) material to as many pastors and their leadership teams as possible.  We see this as a roving ministry throughout India while still being based in Kerala.  We hope to have the material and the training notes translated into all the India languages that will be required.  This week we were stunned when a Pastor and professional counselor offered to translate the material into Hindi-the national language and also Gujarati. The Kannada translation is already underway.  This is a huge step forward!!  We are hopeful that these people will also translate the Lydia Fellowship International materials in due course.

We are very encouraged at the way that God is using Pastor Praveen.

He has adapted the VCL material to the local context and is taking it to many villages in his District with great boldness and effect.  When we were there – roomfuls of people were convicted, repented, forgave and experienced the joy of transformed lives; they all heard the Lord/saw heavenly visions and were healed of ALL their diseases … and then, full of faith, were asking for healing of the land (including businesses)! (as in Ezekiel 36:21-37 and many other Scriptures).  We may be seeing the start of social change/development God’s way!  More details later …

In the last 2 days other significant opportunities have opened up which have given us wonderful affirmation of who we are in Christ and that what we are doing is in line with His plan.  We continue to head south; we arrived in Mysore today and will move to Kerala next week, with two engagements lined up so far.  We anticipated that this would simply be a trip for reconnecting – but we really sense that the Lord has opened the gates for us!

Thank you for all your support and prayers.  We continue to appreciate your being part of this ‘journey of discovery’ with us.

With our love and every blessing,

The CMS vision

CMS is committed to evangelistic mission, working to see our world transformed by the love of Jesus.

We look forward to the day when the whole of creation is restored to a living, loving relationship with God.

We believe that by making disciples, resourcing leaders and transforming communities we make our unique contribution to God’s mission.

We do this as a community that shares a longing to see all peoples being drawn into fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Who we are

Sharing Jesus, changing lives

CMS is committed to evangelistic mission, working to see our world transformed by the love of Jesus.

We are inspired by the hope that one day the whole of creation will be restored to a living, loving relationship with God.

Born in 1799, in the crucible of the campaign to abolish slavery, CMS has always had justice and evangelism at its heart.

Today we are a community of people in mission working in over 35 countries – a community that has heard God’s call to join in his loving outreach to the world and has rolled up its sleeves to serve others in mission.

What we do

What is CMS all about? "Mission" is the short answer. But it's one word with a lot of baggage. All around this site you can find concrete examples of how CMS does mission today. It's certainly changed a lot since our foundation in 1799.

Here we go deeper, and look at what mission actually means for us today and how it's changing.