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.
Joel and Rachel grew up in Champaign-Urbana, IL, but met at Lincoln Christian University. Rachel took many short-term mission trips and served in her local church, while Joel invested himself in students through church camps, youth programs, and coaching. For several years, they have served as missionaries with CMF, but even as they transitioned from life and ministry in the States to life and ministry in Kenya, they hoped for a true partnership with their supporting churches in the US.
Los Pepes is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Mexico City and is run by a Mexican mafia. It and other neighborhoods like it, are where all the garbage of Mexico City is brought and sorted, daily.
Global missions is not something that can be done alone. It requires a partnership of missionaries, supporters, local partners, multiple organizations, and staff all working together to cross borders and cultures, especially during challenging circumstances.