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LIVES connectSUMMER 2015

“Thank you for your letter. I cannot express adequately my joy when I read it. The whole tone was like ‘balm in Gilead’”. This was how one committed friend of CMS responded to a recent letter from Philip Mounstephen and to the new CMS community booklet, which you will have received.

In May CMS sent a letter and the new booklet to thousands of people, including current CMS members and many who had at one point been CMS members, but were no longer listed as members for various reasons. We have been encouraged by the response; here are a few examples:

“I was very much heartened by Philip Mounstephen’s letter simplifying membership requirements of the CMS community – restoring it in many respects to what I for one – had known and

experienced for 40 years. His letter was gracious and humble, and I’ve just sent off my application to become a member once again. I’m very grateful that CMS has taken this step.”

“The ‘Join us around the teapot’ booklet made easy reading. I rejoiced in reading this colourful, cheerful, inspiring booklet.”

“I welcome the simpler, more positive tone of the CMS community. I am happy to join….”

So far, close to 300 people have chosen to re-join the CMS community as members. We realise that for some people, it was a surprise to discover they were not currently listed as members since as loyal supporters they certainly felt like part of the community—thank you so much for helping us make sure our records are correct!

And thank you to all those who

have shared their thoughts and feelings about the CMS community with us over the past few years. Listening to your feedback has helped us simplify what

our community is about: praying for mission, learning from mission and participating in mission—together.

We will soon produce a community handbook with

prayers and resources for community life. In the meantime, please keep an eye on Connect and www.cms-uk.org for upcoming events. If you aren’t in a local CMS group and would like to join one, email Barbara Oakley: barbara.oakley@cms-uk.org

“I welcome the simpler, more positive tone of the CMS community. I am happy to join”

By Mark Berry, CMS community mission facilitator

Three hundred people choose to join CMS “around the teapot”

Five themes for mission today

By Philip Mounstephen, CMS community leader

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THEME 1: PeopleThis sounds simple, but it’s funda-mental. Mission is about people. It’s not about technique or strategy – at least not first and foremost. In 216 years CMS has enabled over 10,000 people to connect person to person in all kinds of places, in all kinds of ways, in order to make Jesus known. It is people, singular – and a people, plural – whom God uses to be about his mission.

THEME 2: Everywhere to everywhereMission was once from “over here” to “over there”, from North to South, from ‘”the West to the Rest”. But now we are part of a truly global family. Mission is multi-directional. And you are part of that changing scene. You are part of God’s global people whom he is deploying to make the good news of Jesus known, wherever you are.

THEME 3: Take culture seriouslyThe best description of culture I know is “‘the way we do things around here”. It’s the way we eat our food, live in our houses, lie down to sleep, go to work. It’s the way we go about the most basic things of life. For mission to take culture seriously means that we don’t go to others and say, “Be like us.” Instead we go to other people and – as far as we can – we become like them, be-cause that is what Jesus did. He be-came like us, that we might become like him. We are to humble ourselves among others – not that they might become like us, but that together we might become like Jesus.

THEME 4: EuropeThis continent which was once the source of so much missionary activity now desperately needs to receive mission from elsewhere. Europe is the one continent on Earth where people consider having a religious faith to be strange. So we need to receive the gifts of the worldwide Church that are already here among us.

Honestly, the Church in the West has not been very good historically at receiving those gifts, perhaps because we’ve not always realised we need them. But we do. So if you’re part of a diaspora community, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

THEME 5: The heartbeat of GodTo quote Tim Dearborn, “It is not the Church of God that has a mission in the world; but the God of mission who has a church in the world.” There’s a huge difference between the two perspectives. In the first, mission is just one activity of the Church. In the second, mission is much bigger than the Church because it’s not our mission; it’s God’s. Mission is God’s heartbeat: bringing back the world to himself.

The challenge for every church is: are we letting the mission of God set the agenda? And if we are, how will things change? For we can be certain of one thing: as we get involved in God’s mission, it is not only the world that will be changed. We will be, too.

Adapted from an article first published in Mar Thoma Echo, the magazine of the Mar Thoma Church. Fuller version available on

www.cms-uk.org

We were sincerely moved recently to receive a gift of a diamond ring from a former CMS mission partner, who bequeathed it to CMS in her will. The will reads, “I give to the Church Mission Society...my diamond engagement ring in thanksgiving for the happiness my husband and I found in the service of the Society where we met”.

This thoughtful member of the CMS family served in Egypt in the 1940s, teaching at a school for girls. She met her husband at the CMS headquarters. A friend of hers said she was “distinguished by her consciousness of the love of God”.

We are deeply honoured to have been given a tangible sign of her love for God and her love for her husband.

If you have any questions about leaving a gift in your will to CMS, Hannah will be happy to talk to you: Phone: 01865 787 521 E-mail: giftsinwills@cms-uk.org.

Ian Adams, CMS mission spirituality adviser, has created a new resource – a series of sketches and reflections around the possibility of mission as the healing of all things. “Give me a drink” is a pivotal phrase in a story about Jesus told by John in his gospel (John 4.1-42). It may be a particular gift to us as we participate in mission in the 21st century. Now available from Proost: www.proost.co.uk for only £3.99

Circle of love, circle of life

21 Sketches for Mission

Currently we’re looking for more people to serve in this way. It is crucial that our board has people with a breadth and depth of experience. Specifically, we are currently looking for people with business or financial expertise. Former mission partners, or people involved in mission as members of the community, would be very welcome. We particularly hope to diversity the board in terms of gender, age and ethnicity.

Do you think God is calling you to be a CMS trustee? If so please ask for an application pack. Or if you know someone who has the appropriate skills and experience, please share this opportunity with him or her.

THE CLOSING DATE for completed applications is Monday 12 September 2015. For more information and application packs, please contact Janet Quarry on 01865 787402 or email janet.quarry@cms-uk.org

In our life as a community, trustees are responsible for encouraging and enabling the community to grow in its mission and ministry, and for its governance and finances.

More trustees please!

Thirteen miles for mission

At the start of this year, along with many others, I remember talking with my son-in-law about New Year’s resolutions and committing ourselves to doing something healthy.

Dismissing dieting, because we enjoy food too much, we signed up for the Reading Half Marathon, as I thought this would be a fun way of supporting CMS. There were times during the training when we weren’t always so convinced this was “fun”, but the day came and a great time was had by all. Thanks to Hannah Caroe (CMS events and legacies fundraiser) and to CMS, a running vest with my name on it was produced, which

caused many in the crowds to call out my name and encourage us as the miles were covered. We are delighted that a good sum of money was raised, and would commend this race to anyone else who may be thinking about it for next year.

This impressive effort rasied almost £400 for mission. Big thanks to Rev David and to all those who take on challenges to raise vital funds for CMS. To find out more about challenging yourself for God’s mission, go to www.cms-uk.org/challenges or contact Hannah: 01865 78 7521 / challenges@cms-uk.org

BRINGING FOOD to “forgotten people”CMS finance team member Meseret Teferra, who is Ethiopian, shares her experience of bringing food, hope and love to refugees in Calais with her church:

When we drove to the camp we saw different sorts of tents: some proper tents, some made out of bin bags. I was puzzled to see this kind of shelter in Europe, not far from our doorsteps. We saw refugees of different nationalities: Sudanese, Afghanis, Eritreans and Ethiopians.

The visit was organised by our church’s evangelism and outreach team. As we arrived, around 150 Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees came out of their tents. We shared a message about hope in Jesus, which was translated into Tigrigna (Eritrean language). We distributed Ethiopian food and some clothes.

I asked one woman how long it had been since she left home. “Ten months”.

She is five months pregnant. She and her boyfriend made their way through Sudan, the Sahara desert and then to Libya, where they stayed for a month trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. They saw people sinking in the water, they told me crying. We prayed with them.

Then I spoke to a Muslim man. He graduated from

university, but he doesn’t have a job, so he left his country six months ago. As he described the hardships he encountered, I couldn’t hold myself together. I asked him if he has heard about Jesus. He told me he has read the Quran, now he is reading the Bible. He said he is open-minded, searching for truth. He was overwhelmed by what we have done and thanked us many times, saying, “You could have used your spare time for something for yourself, but you came to visit forgotten people like us.”

We had 30 Bibles with us and we gave them all away, promising to bring more next time.

One woman told me her husband and child are still in Libya. She fears for them. She is a Christian, but struggling to come to terms with all she has seen. She was in Libya when the Ethiopian Christians were beheaded.

I shared this verse: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13

Rev David Williams, team rector of Risborough, Diocese of Oxford, shares why he ran the Reading Half Marathon in March for CMS:

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Ever since I read Christianity Rediscovered I have been fascinated by the challenge of mission across cultures. That book is the story of mission among the Massai in Africa and the quest to share Jesus in such a way as to grow a Massai expression of Christianity rather than impose a Western one.

African Christianity has changed considerably since that book with an explosion of growth - the heartlands of Christianity are most definitely located in Africa (and China and Latin America) rather than Europe. That growth has been accompanied by the developing of African contextual theologies and spiritualities as they have sought to find their own voice and shake off the Western clothes that Jesus was initially wrapped in. There has also been considerable migration in the last 20 years so that in Britain there are now many fast growing and replicating African churches that are part of the blessed reflex - i.e. a mission movement back in the direction of Europe.

In June there was a

gathering of African leaders at CMS in Oxford under the umbrella of the innovative Missio Africanus mission movement. It was a treat to hear John Mbiti, one of the most respected African theologians alive today, who has sought to connect faith with indigenous African spirituality and religion. He shared that lately he has been exploring African answers to the question “Who is Jesus?”

Some of the descriptions of Jesus are ones we would recognise - door, king, path, hiding place. But some are really quirky and fun. Such as a name that translates as “put down your load and have something to eat”, wiper (of sorrows and tears), leopard whose cubs cannot be caught and one that Mbiti expanded upon - Jesus the bulldozer. This came from a group of charismatic Catholic Christians in a prison in Benin who had an intriguing

song that included the lines “bulldoze the lawyer, bulldoze the judge, Jesus is my bulldozer!”

The questions of culture, translation and migration in mission are huge. Many

African churches in the UK initially recreate the culture of Ghana or Nigeria and attract those like them rapidly, but struggle to reach their Western neighbours. Missio Africanus, which is led by CMS mission partner in training Harvey Kwiyani, is helping them reflect on cross cultural mission from Africa to Britain. I suspect

they will also be reading Christianity Rediscovered and letting it spark their imaginations of how to share Jesus in a way that connects with the contexts they are in rather than imposing African cultures.

Having been inspired in my initial ventures into

mission by a story of mission and African Christianity, I find I am being inspired and challenged in new ways by stories of mission and African Christianity. The thought that our faith is essentially a migrant faith has blown me away and made me reimagine who I am, who God is and what mission is. And then there is the call to join in the mission challenge that Missio Africanus is exploring together rather than apart, so that we build communities of faith that are missional and multi cultural.

Jesus my bulldozer

By Jonny Baker, CMS mission education director and pioneer course leader

Further reading: Christianity Rediscovered by Vincent Donavon; Sent Forth by Harvey Kwiyani; Theology Brewed in an African Pot by Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator. This article was edited from a previous version published by Fresh

Expressions on www.freshexpressionsl.org.uk Adapted with permission.

“I find I am being inspired and challenged in new ways by stories of mission and African Christianity. ”

John Mbiti, renowned African theologian,

speaking at CMS in June

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The ordination of the first group of pioneer ministers who opted to do their training with the CMS pioneer course and Ripon College Cuddesdon was a milestone to be celebrated at the recent graduation ceremony in July.

Congratulations to new Ordained Pioneer Ministers Erika Biscoe, Anne Underwood, James Henley, Kim Hartshorne and Ben Lillie.

“We are still young enough as a course (five years) that there are still some firsts,” commented course leader Jonny Baker. “We have also had our first MA dissertation handed in.”

Four students graduated with a certificate or foundation degree: Rachel Dickinson, Gavin Mart , Johnny Sertin and Peter Jones. A number

of other students completed a significant number of modules: Katharine Crowsley, John Wheatley, Rob Winn, Sue Steer, Andy Freeman, Berni Excell, Catherine Nelson and Karlie Allaway, and three more students have completed their degree work but are not fully through the university exam board yet: Des Yarde Martin, Hannah Davis, Meg Fry.

Five people were admitted as CMS lay pioneers in the Church of England: Ann-Marie Wilson, Hannah Davis, Rachel Dickinson,

Emma Major and Lindy Cameron. This enables them to be licensed locally by their diocesan bishops as lay pioneer ministers.

Now about to enter its sixth academic year, the CMS pioneer course, which is accredited through the University of Durham, has seen more than 80 people participate in some way so far. Please pray for the 2015 intake. www.pioneer.cms-uk.org

Among the first batch of ordained pioneers to complete their training with CMS is Erika Biscoe.

Following a career in retail management, Erika trained as a nail technician. Her pioneering dream for pursuing a ministry around her manicure table emerged while she was helping to lead Kidz Church in Heyford. “The girls would eagerly queue up at the end of the session and ask for their nails to be painted. It wasn’t long before the parents were joining the queue, too.” This led her to start offering free manicures on Friday mornings in the community room of the church in Bicester where she now worships. The church is nestled between a nursery and doctor’s surgery on a housing estate. “I find that people feel safe and able to relax while I do their manicures. Spending time one-to-one breaks down barriers and makes it easier for

people to open up and talk about life and faith and even ask for prayer.”

Erika experienced a moment of breakthrough during a session on mission entrepreneurship while on the CMS Pioneer Mission Leadership Training course.

“We were encouraged to write down, doodle or draw out our ideas and stories. An idea for pioneering a course for young people started to crystallise in my mind and spirit.”

Around her manicure table, Erika had come into contact with many young people with low self-esteem who talked about things like self-harming and having suicidal thoughts. Wanting to go deeper than just doing their nails, Erika decided to develop a six-week course for teenagers that combined the practical skills of learning how to do a manicure with spiritual teaching from the book of Esther. Her course, Cherish: Made for Such a Time as This, was born.

Erika has piloted Cherish with a group of young people. In between learning how to do manicures, the participants have looked at verses from Esther and been able to talk about life issues. In the process each has found renewed confidence and their own voice.

In the future, Erika hopes to get a Volkswagen camper van to take manicure ministry into communities where there is currently no mission outreach taking place.

Grinning graduates: some of the pioneers recognised in July

Second pioneer graduation still full of “firsts”

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Pioneer profile: Erika Biscoe

Hands on mission through manicures

On the money: Adrian White

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New Member CORNERMeet new CMS member Matt Lockwood, age 22. Matt is a youth worker in Blackheath, London. HOW DID YOU FIRST CONNECT TO CMS? I first heard about CMS through my church in Ipswich. I made contact with CMS in September 2014 when arranging to go to Bangalore with CMS and CYM (Centre for Youth Ministry) as part of my degree.

WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO BECOME A MEMBER? After returning from India, and through the whole process of getting there, I really appreciated the support I received and the amazing resources that I can now take with me. But moreover is the obvious heart that CMS has for working alongside mission partners overseas to meet the holistic needs of the people they interact with, not just the spiritual. After all, salvation is for here and now as well as eternity.

WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR MISSION PASSION? I love working with young people and seeing them grow and develop. My call is to journey with young people, wherever in the world that may be, through the highs and the lows, trying to show the love of Christ in all situations.

HOW DO YOU HOPE CMS WILL HELP YOU AS YOU CONSIDER MISSION IN YOUR LIFE? My fiancé, Hannah, and I have both been overseas for short-term mission. As we look to the future we hope to see where God leads and follow him in that. CMS is a great place for information, resources, support and advice as well as prayer—giving and receiving.

AROUND THE COMMUNITYTwo events in June have helped people tune into African and Asian voices in mission. The Asia: Prayer and Aware campaign was launched at Lambeth Palace on 19 June, hosted by the CMS Asia Forum. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, called the campaign, which highlights the key role of mission to and from Asia, a “gift to the church”. Future Asia: Prayer and Aware events can be found on www.cms-uk.org. On 26 June a Missio Africanus conference took place at CMS in Oxford. Missio Africanus, led by mission partner Harvey Kwiyani, aims to equip Africans living in Britain for mission. Renowned African theologian John Mbiti was a keynote speaker.

CMS is at five Christian festivals this summer with the message that mission is for everyone. To illustrate this we have created a portable science lab called The Mission Experiment where people can discover how their time and talents can be used in God’s mission. Church mission mobiliser Thomas Fowler said, “It’s been a lot of fun so far with hundreds of people engaging with the stand. Radio broadcaster Hope FM said our interactive display was ‘by far the most engaging stand at … Big Church Day Out’”. You can take part in The Mission Experiment online: www.cms-uk.org/mex

House244, the missional community house in Oxford, is set to be re-purposed. Beginning this autumn, CMS mission partners in training will now live in community at the house during their training. Please pray as this is a time of transition for current residents of House244 as they are currently hoping to stay together as a community in another location.

Plans are underway for CMS to purchase a vicarage in Hull, where mission partners Anna and Chris Hembury are based, for use as a missional house within the community. Watch this space!

Did you switch off? A big thank you to everyone who took part in the CMS community day of action on climate change, Switch off Sunday, on 7 June. If you have stories and reflections from that day please share them by writing to Naomi Steinberg at naomi.steinberg@cms-uk.org

Matt and his fiancé Hannah

Rana Khan, CMS Asia forum leader at Lambeth

Big Church Day Out

House244, Oxford

The Hemburys

Events 20157 September York Prayers for the world church: 11am–12pm, followed by optional light lunch. Venue: Spurriergate Centre, York Contact: Eileen Wishart Tel: 01904 633705 Email: eileen.wishart@tiscali.co.uk

19 September CMS Northern day conference - Harrogate: Time: 10am-4pm. Venue: St Mark’s Church, Leeds Road, Harrogate HG2 8AY Mission partners Jason and Tracy Day, recently working in Nepal will share their experiences; Chris and Suzy Wilson, mission partners in training, are also taking part Contact: c/o Alan Nickless Tel: 01142 364517 Email: alan@nickless-online.co.uk

2-4 October Africa Conference 2015: Venue: Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. The Africa Forum welcomes all CMS members and supporters to the 2015 Africa Conference. Main speaker is Steve Brady, who will be sharing from the book of Acts on the theme: “‘Facing a Task unfinished’ - Acts for Today”. Steve has been in full-time Christian ministry for 40 years, is principal of Moorlands College, serves as a trustee of the Keswick Convention, and is chair of the Association of Bible College Principals. Contact: Nick and Val Fane, 1 Woodshears Drive, Malvern, Worcs. WR14 3EA. Tel: 01684 566601 Email: ac2015@fanes.co.uk

14 October Central South regional meeting - Lymington: Venue: All Saints Church Hall, Greenbanks Close Milford on Sea, Lymington SO41 0SQ Contact: Dr E Edmunds Tel: 01425 610797 Email: edmunds37@uwclub.net

15 October Northamptonshire

CMS gathering: 7pm- 9:30pm. 15 October Light supper, latest news from CMS Details tbc Contact: Margaret Walker Tel: 01933 223164 Email: pearlgate21@gmail.com

16-17 October CMS Wales conference - Brecon: Main speaker: Rev Canon Mark Oxbrow, Faith2Share. Venue: Llangasty Retreat Centre, Brecon. Contact: Miranda Bowen Email: bowbelles11@gmail.com

16 October CMS gathering in Harrogate: Time: 7pm Venue: St Mark’s Church, Harrogate More details tbc Contact: Tony and Pat Ninham Tel: 01423 873 617 Email: patninham@tiscali.co.uk

17 October CMS gathering in York: Time: 12pm-3:30pm. Venue: Christ Church Stockton Lane, York Soup and pudding lunch followed by speakers from Friends International Contact: Eileen Wishart Tel: 01904 633705 Email: eileen.wishart@tiscali.co.uk

17 October Mission day in Kendal: Time: 10am Venue: Kendal Parish Church Details tbc Contact: Jenny Ottewell Tel: 01539 727010 Email: jennyottewell@breathe.com

7 November Liverpool Africa day conference: Venue: St Paul’s Church, Formosa Drive, Fazakerley, Merseyside, L10 7LB More details tbc Contact: Jean Mitchell Tel: 0151 9283491 Email: mitchjeph@talktalk.net

21 November Spirit of Mission: a retreat in the city - Bristol: In a demanding world how can we be sustained and encouraged in Jesus’ mission? A day retreat in the city hosted by CMS Spirit of Mission with Trinity College, Bristol Time: 10am for

10.30am start - 4pm Venue: Trinity College Bristol, Stoke Hill, Stoke Bishop, Bristol BS9 1JP. The retreat is free but a donation towards the costs of the day would be appreciated. Coffee and tea is provided but please bring your own lunch. To book your free place, contact Linda Sammons on 01865 787482 or email linda.sammons@cms-uk.org

Pioneer events 2015 20 October Pioneer Mission Leadership Training Open Day: 10:30am-2:30pm Venue: Church Mission Society, Oxford. Come and explore a course designed specifically by pioneers, for pioneers. For more information contact Helen Harwood Tel: 01865 787439 Email: helen.harwood@cms-uk.org

3 November Third annual Pioneer Conversations Day at CMS in Oxford. Subject: Missional Entrepreneurship. Contact: Andy Freeman Tel: 01865 787414 Email: andy.freeman@cms-uk.org

Missional Entrepreneurship Weeks A unique training opportunity: The CMS Missional Entrepreneurship week looks at how pioneering mission can become financially self-sustaining. The next two are being run in a chateau in Brittany, France and in Pickwell Manor, a manor house overlooking the beautiful Devon countryside, just a short walk from a secluded sandy beach.

20-25 September 2015 Missional Entrepreneurship Brittany Week15-20 November 2015 Missional Entrepreneurship Devon WeekRSVP to Helen Tel: 01865 787439 Email: pioneer@cms-uk.org www.pioneer.cms-uk.org

CMS at summer festivalsTake part in The Mission Experiment at our summer festivals - CMS’s mobile mission laboratory is hitting the road. Festival-goers can go along to our spectacular science-lab themed stand to see how they can be “in their element” in mission. Take part in the Mission Experiment at www.cms-uk.org/mex

25 July-8 August CMS at New Wine, Shepton Mallet, Somerset 27-31 August CMS at Momentum, Shepton Mallet, Somerset

CMS sponsored challenges1-13 September Ride with Jesus: Land’s End to John O’Groats cycle ride

4-6 September Trek with Jesus: Hadrian’s Wall: Our sponsored challenge in the North.

10 October CMS Sponsored Skydive 2015: Freefall at over 120mph to raise money for mission. The jump will take place with the Army Parachute Association at their Airfield at Netheravon, Salisbury, SP4 9RY. Training provided on jump day. Contact challenges@cms-uk.org or Hannah.caroe@cms-uk.org or call 01865 787 521

NEXT CONNECT: AUTUMN 2015

Send your stories to: naomi.steinberg@cms-uk.org

Welcome and farewell: People in missionWelcome: Jimmy and Katia Rocks, with Joanna and Davi, moved to Florianopolis, Brazil, in June where Jimmy will be involved in pioneering church planting. Farewell: Isobel Booth-Clibborn has ended mission partner service and moved to Edinburgh after 14 years in Uganda, serving with Viva. Trisha Wick has ended service, after 17 years of theological education and discipleship in Sudan and South Sudan. Charitas and Paul Cho, with Hayoung and Joanna, have ended service after two years in the Philippines.

Welcome and farewell: Oxford, UK staffWe said farewell to Hannah Lloyd, data and income processor, who left in July to work at

Birmingham University. In August we say goodbye to Isabella Barstead, PA/administrator to international mission team, who has gone to work for RZIM in Oxford as executive assistant to the executive leader. Meanwhile, Elsbeth Priestley’s internship with CMS ends in September as she is going to Bristol University to study childhood studies. Charlie Walker was appointed director of finance and corporate services and joins CMS in September. Bishop Graham Kings becomes mission theologian in the Anglican Communion, based in London. Claire Reynolds becomes administrator and research assistant for Bishop Graham in his new post, also based in London. Rachel Swift has become finance and corporate services administrator, a temporary post until September. In June, we

welcomed Thalia Carr as regional personnel officer for Africa. We also are happy to welcome a new intern, Isaac Frisby, who joins in September. Carol Frew became income and data processor in July while Richard Graham became data entry processor and administrator for the church relations team – on a temporary basis until September.

DEATHSOctober 2014 Joan Elinor Wootton, Pakistan 1947-61

Audrey Laxton, Sudan 1949-58

November 2014 Richard Mendenhall, Uganda 1993-97

March Daphne Wales, member of SAMS general council and deputy chair of SAMS trustees (70s and 80s)

Mildred Angel, Pakistan 1965-68

April Brian Bull, Iran 1963-72

Gun Margareta Brookes, Cyprus, 1979-88

Elizabeth Anne Ward, Uganda 1984-90

May Maurice Walter Lewington, CMS staff, 1978-85

Marion Atkinson, Uganda 1987-2000

June Rev Ray Williams, Sudan 1946-56 and CMS staff, 1960-65

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VOLUNTEER PHOTO LIBRARIAN NEEDED!In July we bade a sad farewell to Glynne Bianchi who has served us amazingly in CMS by coming in to the office once a week to help catalogue our photos. Could you – or someone you know – replace her? Contact Jeremy: jeremy.woodham@cms-uk.org

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Tel: 01865 787400 Email: info@cms-uk.org

The best way to get in touch with community leader Philip Mounstephen is via email: executive.leader@cms-uk.org or contact his personal assistant Janet Quarry: 01865 787402 janet.quarry@cms-uk.org

There are five wider teams within CMS: international mission (director: Paul Thaxter), church and community mission (director: Debbie James), fundraising for mission (director: Jim Barker), finance and corporate services (director Charlie Walker from September 2015) and mission education (director Jonny Baker).

For South America queries contact South American mission director Henry Scriven 01865 787500 or henry.scriven@cms-uk.org

For questions about Europe, the Middle East or North Africa: Tanas Alqassis 01865 787424 or tanas.alqassis@cms-uk.org

For Africa matters: Stephen Burgess 01865 787427 stephen.burgess@cms-uk.org

And for Asia: Raj Patel 01865 787437 or raj.patel@cms-uk.org

For community issues Mark Berry can be reached on 07771 925556 or mark.berry@cms-uk.org

For CMS groups and associations, your contact is Barbara Oakley: 01865 787487 barbara.oakley@cms-uk.org

Mission Partner Fellowship matters: Hilary Cope: hilary.cope@cms-uk.org

Linda Sammons handles administration for the church and community team: 01865 787482 linda.sammons@cms-uk.org

If you have questions about publications content: Naomi Steinberg: 01865 787454 naomi.steinberg@cms-uk.org

For web and media enquires: Jeremy Woodham: 01865 787451 jeremy.woodham@cms-uk.org

For link letters contact Jonathan Self: 01865 787527 jonathan.self@cms-uk.org

To find out how your church can get equipped for mission in the UK, contact church mission mobiliser Thomas Fowler on 01865 787449 or thomas.fowler@cms-uk.org

For Encounter short-term cross-cultural visits, contact Kathryn Smith: 01865 787493 or kathryn.smit@cms-uk.org

If you have a question about fundraising or need to change your contact details, get in touch with team administrator Chrissie Bonnie: 01865 787519 or chrissie.bonnie@cms-uk.org

Sponsored challenges and legacies are organised by Hannah Caroe: 01865 787521 hannah.caroe@cms-uk.org

The Church Mission Society shop is run by Zoe Kuisis: 01865 787512 zoe.kuisis@cms-uk.org

If you’re a church looking for a speaker, to link with a mission partner or to raise money for CMS, contact Heather Ramsey 01865 787520 or heather.ramsey@cms-uk.org

If you would like to learn more about the CMS pioneer mission leadership training course: Helen Harwood: 01865 787439 or pioneer@cms-uk.org

If you or someone you know is thinking about short-term, gap year or long-term mission, contact Penny Stradling: 01865 787415 vro@cms-uk.org

For specific questions about your giving to CMS, including direct debits, contact Liza-Mae France: 01865 787468 liza-mae.france@cms-uk.org

Finally, if you are interested in booking CMS facilities for an event, ring our main phone number: 01865 787400.

To get in touch with any team director, ring the main CMS line and ask to be put through or email name.surname@cms-uk.org for example paul.thaxter@cms-uk.org

Please note that many of our staff travel fairly regularly so it’s often best to simply email info@cms-uk.org

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WHO’S WHO AND HOW TO REACH THEM?Some members have asked for a bit of a directory of “who to contact for what” in CMS so here is a little synopsis