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We just have to do ‘God in the moment’ – interview with Sue Steer
Pioneer Mission Leadership student Sue Steer talked to Helen Harwood about how listening to her local community led her into a huge project to turn unused church space into a thriving community centre....
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Nightclub chaplain pioneer post in Bournmouth
This pioneering role is in the area and within striking distance of Oxford. Maybe someone could do this and train with CMS at the same time? Just a thought…
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Measuring Success?
Annie Kirke reflects on her experience in pioneer ministry and the challenge of measuring success. She floats the idea of measures like these… As new measurables for professed and unprofessed disciples...
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Ordained Pioneer Ministry
Mark Broomhead shares his thoughts on ordained pioneer ministry on a 12 minute interview at fresh expressions. It’s still early days for the Church of England on this one and he touches on selection,...
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Tales of a Pioneer – those first months…
Rob Ryan is a pioneer in Gillingham. He has recently moved from working in Rochester and this makes for something of a new start. We have discussed on the course what it is that you do in the early...
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Pioneering in Seoul
I was invited to visit the Diocese of Seoul by Rev Ambrose Kim, well known to CMS Asia and to CMS in Britain. This was something of a surprise but I felt that it was a good thing to do and agreed to...
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‘People are endlessly complicated and infinitely interesting’– Interview with...
A fascination with people drives Rob Winn, in the first year of his MA in Pioneer Mission Leadership with CMS, together with a desire to find out how faith can help them live in a way that is good news...
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Seeing Change
Hannah moved to Oxford to join in the CMS pioneer course and is in the first year. One of her heroes is Henri Nouwen. He speaks of leadership that follows in the way of Christ being downwardly mobile...
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What’s Your Dream?
Congrats to Sarah Roberts who is pioneering with young people who have parents in prison – see What’s your dream? - she starts in a new role today.
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£1000 giveaway
We’ve got two grants of £500 to give away (from a project now deceased). If you’d like to apply for one then simply answer the following in 250 words or less: If I was given £500 to spend on...
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Conversations on Pioneering Day – one not to miss!
We are excited about November 12 – it’s our first Conversations on Pioneering day. Pioneering mission and ministry is relatively new language of late in the church as the term pioneer ministry was...
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The Lab – Cooking Up A Good Blog
I have been enjoying following the Lab in Newport’s blog. Add it to your links! Of course it is authored by our very own James Henley, currently in his second year on the MA and a pioneer ordinand in...
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Reflecting on Mission
I stumbled across an article by Graham Cray on not knowing the end at the beginning which i rather liked. It probably didn’t tell me a lot I didn’t know but there is so much anxiety in the church about...
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Buzzing about pioneering mission!
The word everyone has used following the research and conversations day on Tuesday is ‘buzzing’ – it was buzzing, I was buzzing, there was a buzz… We think that means it went well! We were certainly...
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Time To Wake Up! Pioneering Is Making A Big Difference
Yesterday there was a day put on by the Church of England presenting research into church growth. The research has been a huge undertaking and will be talked about for a while and shape the way...
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Congrats to Sarah Roberts who is pioneering with young people who have parents in prison – see What’s your dream? - she starts in a new role today.
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I have written three articles on pioneering for youthwork magazine. The first is in the current (sept) issue and the next two will be in the following two months. I decided to write for youthwork...
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We’ve got two grants of £500 to give away (from a project now deceased). If you’d like to apply for one then simply answer the following in 250 words or less: If I was given £500 to spend on...
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Pioneer Support Day
On Tuesday 3rd June we’re going to be trying out a new event which we hope will become a regular way of supporting Pioneers in the region. From 11am to 4pm they’ll be a Pioneer Support Day (catchy I...
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New MA and Diploma courses at CMS
This summer looks like being a busy one here for us at CMS as we put the finishing touches to our revised MA, Certificate and Diploma courses which start in September. We’ve worked most of the year...
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