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.
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.
For teammates Joel & Michelle Swai and Nelson & Megan Mugarula, to train local leaders at the CMF training center in Arusha, Tanzania and equip them to plant churches in their own cultural context is the heartbeat of the ministry. But the work goes far beyond.
David and Teresa Fittro are celebrating 32 years of ministry with CMF in England. They currently serve as leaders of EQUIP Britain International, an immersive, hands-on mission training opportunity in Birmingham, one of the most diverse cities in the world. Their time in England, living among the people they are called to serve, has taught them much about the art of hospitality.
Doug Priest Sr., a faithful servant in God’s mission and a long-time CMF missionary, passed away on Sunday, January 2.
As they regrouped at the beginning of their current furlough in the U.S., Travis and Emily Weeks, who serve with the CMF team in Ethiopia, have been surprised at how much their ministry was able to move ahead despite the difficulties of the pandemic and the political and ethnic tensions in their ministry country.
Holistic ministries lead to successful church planting in Turkana, Kenya
If you were looking for a perfect example of the success of the Disciple Making Movement method used by CMF missionaries in Kenya, Eric Pitts would nominate his Kenyan friend and co-worker, Jackson Emaniman.
Greg and Vicki Syverson met as students at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois, and say that “missions brought us together.”
“Our churches are back in full swing here!”
That’s the good news from CMF church planters Greg and Vicki Syverson in Pachuca, Mexico, about the four church groups they are working with in different parts of the city.