Becca Schafer serves people with disabilities and their families in the Chiang Mai, Thailand, area. She works with Hope Home, a foster home for children with disabilities, providing daily care, love and guidance in a family setting. Here she shares a glimpse of how she integrates spiritual principles into the lives of the children she serves.
A group of eight Globalscope staff and students from our El Pozo campus ministry in Puebla, Mexico returned on Friday from a five-day scouting trip to Guanajuato, a city in the middle of Mexico that is home to Universidad de Guanajuato and its 50,000 students. This was the second trip there to see if it's the right place to plant a new Globalscope campus ministry.
When we invited three busy executive pastors and a university ministry director to experience our ministries in Mexico, their first question was understandable: why should they sacrifice a week away from their work and families? After all, missions isn't new to them. They send missionaries from their churches and university, support and send interns during the summer, and are long-time financial partners with our ministries.
For over 50 years, CMF has partnered with local communities in Ethiopia, planting churches in unreached areas and developing disciples and leaders. At the heart of this mission is holistic ministry, addressing physical, spiritual, and social needs.
When Isabel Miller recently joined our Marketplace Ministries team in Mexico, she already knew Spanish. So, why should she spend time living with a Mexican family when the important tasks of ministry and serving those around her were being left undone? Here are Isabel's reflections on how God went before her to help her learn the deeper lessons of connecting with the people and culture there.
This summer marked a historic moment for CMF as we held a first-ever gathering in our 75-year history, bringing together around 175 missionaries and staff for an unforgettable week.
On university campuses around the world, CMF provides Christian communities for students who, very often, are not Christian. Our Globalscope campus ministries are unique in that Christians, atheists, agnostics and anyone in between can find community together. Their time spent as part of a Globalscope ministry, a community centered on the love of God, is life changing.
Aaron and Morganne Weeks are missionaries serving with CMF in Ethiopia. Here they share the many ways that Compassion Christian Church has supported them and the ministry there.
Over the past few months our home church, Compassion Christian Church, has sent two separate short-term groups to visit our families and the ministry work here in Ethiopia.
For over thirty years, CMF has been sending teams of young adults to serve for 8 weeks each summer alongside long-term CMF ministries. Through a mentored and guided experience, interns are given the opportunity to come and learn about missions in a hands-on context. Interns are trained before they serve and are given space to process their experience and what God might be calling them to next after returning from the field.
In what has become an annual tradition, a medical team spent part of their summer serving the Maasai area of Kenya where CMF has had a long ministry resulting in a renowned clinic system and hundreds of churches planted.