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.…

By Andy Miller, Mission Partner to Costa Rica.   My wife Shona sensed the call to global mission at 12 years old at her home church in Auck­land. In her 20’s she did mission trips to Tan­zania and Colom­bia. I grew up as a son of British mis­sion­ar­ies in Peru and we later met in Spain in 1999. We…

In early 2021, we ran an appeal for a hostel in Pakistan. In order to house and dis­ciple the next intake of stu­dents, the hostel needed $10,000. You and others raised over $18,000. Our Mission Partner who serves there reports back on the power­ful impact this will have for these stu­dents and their…