By Nicolas Laing Mission Partner serving in Uganda “While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an ala­baster jar of very expens­ive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclin­ing at the table. When the dis­ciples saw this, they were indig­nant. “Why…

Inter­view with Adrienne Worth We sat down with Adrienne to discuss her life and min­istry in Cam­bodia. Adrienne serves in Bat­tam­bong, a town in north­west­ern Cam­bodia where she works at a com­munity children’s worker in the Handa Academy, a purpose-built school serving rural vil­lages. If you’d like…

By Nikki Wheeler NZCMS Mission Partner to Papua New Guinea Dis­ciple­ship Train­ing Program Kapuna runs a dis­ciple­ship program through­out the year. They invite a group of people from dif­fer­ent vil­lages in the Gulf Province and house and feed them for a period of 8 weeks while they train them in Bible…

By Lily Emo Illus­trator By the time NZCMS came to me with a request for artwork, a lot of thought had already gone into present­ing their values through their new brand­ing. John 20:21 had been used to form a lot of the think­ing behind the tag line “Every­one Sent”. At their core, the illustrations…

By Luke and Naomi Sin­clair NZCMS Mission Part­ners to Japan We’ve been in Chofu, Tokyo for three months! A high­light has been the great con­ver­sa­tions we’re having with local fam­il­ies at Angeline’s Chris­tian preschool. We haven’t met another Chris­tian parent yet, and only two of the teach­ers are…

The Rev. Claude Fong Toy has been appoin­ted to the NZCMS Board. Claude is cur­rently the Vicar of St Eliza­beth Parish of Clendon, Auck­land, having com­pleted his B. Theo­logy through Otago while at St John’s College in Auck­land in 2021. Claude and his wife Mila have been in full-time church ministry…

By Jairus Robb, NZCMS Com­mu­nic­a­tions Officer When I was sev­en­teen, my twin brother and I were helping Dad move our house. After getting a ques­tion from Dad I said, “Muskie that”. He glanced at me in amuse­ment. “It’s so funny you guys still say that.” “Say what?” I asked. “Muskie that,” he said.…

By Alice Kinyua NZCMS Inter­cul­tural Min­istry Enabler There is an image that I find mind-bog­gling, described in Rev­el­a­tion 7:9–10 “After this, I looked, and there before me was a great mul­ti­tude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and lan­guage, stand­ing before the throne and…