By Luke Sin­clair, Mission Partner serving in Japan A turning point on my journey to mission lies some­where between Aaron Burr and Alex­an­der Hamilton, the two rival char­ac­ters as por­trayed in the 2015 musical, “Hamilton”. Set in the early years of Amer­ican inde­pend­ence, Hamilton is a driven man who…

Q and A with Mike Jessop Who do you call your family and where do you come from? I hail from down south in Bal­clutha. I grew up in a loving Chris­tian home with two great parents and four awesome sib­lings. I also have a sup­port­ive wider church family who encour­aged me to step into leadership…

By Rosie Fyfe, NZCMS National Dir­ector Each of us at NZCMS shares a deep passion: to see the church enga­ging in mission. We exist to enable this – as a sending organ­isa­tion, we provide resources, prayer support, and logist­ics to send people into mission. Who, then, is a mis­sion­ary? To unpack this,…

By Kirstin Cant Nine years ago, I had just fin­ished study­ing a bit of theo­logy and I came across a job with a mission organ­isa­tion I had never heard of, that was offer­ing a role right in the niche of what I was pas­sion­ate about: jour­ney­ing with young people who were keen on explor­ing global…

An Inter­view with Alice Kinyua Tell us a bit about your back­ground. Where do you come from and who do you call family? A little under six years ago, my family and I moved from Nairobi, Kenya to the lovely city of Whan­ganui, NZ. At that time my husband, Kinyua Kathuri and I had one daugh­ter called…

By Mike Robb, NZCMS Per­son­nel Manager   “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not regard equal­ity with God as some­thing to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human like­ness. And being found…

How do you get from growing up in rural mid-Can­­ter­­bury to Global mission in the mega­city of Tokyo? Here, NZCMS Mission Partner Luke Sin­clair describes part of his journey of every­day dis­ciple­ship that res­ul­ted in his call to mission. 

By Anne McCormick, NZCMS Arch­iv­ist. Whether way back when or more recently, mis­sion­ar­ies face many varied chal­lenges. Ref­er­ences to so-called “one-way mis­sion­ar­ies” abound in his­tor­ical records on mission. Aware of the dangers on the field, these people booked one-way tickets to their location.…