Church Mission Society

Focus on the Middle East with the Rev Bassi Mirzania, Persian chaplain in the UK, Michael green, working in Jordan in medical care, and an anonymous mission partner who has been working in Lebanon.

CMS-Africa leader Dennis Tongoi responds to the Al-Shabab terror attack on his home city of Nairobi. Plus inter-African exchange programmes and the struggles of indigenous people in Argentina.

Africa conference 2013 Joe Kapolyo Bible readings

Africa conference 2013. The Rev Joe Kapolyo gave the Bible readings. Here he explains what the church looks like from an African, mainly Zambian, perspective.

Africa conference 2013 Joe Kapolyo Bible readings

Exploring how the Centre for Urban Mission in Kibera, Nairobi is building up Kenya's mission pioneers in the slums with mission partner Colin Smith. Plus, mission partner Jill Ball looks back on the remarkable progress of Life in Abundance Trust in Ecuador.

Meet CMS mission partner Isobel Booth-Clibborn, promoting children's place in the world and in mission across Africa. Also this month: Caroline and Dick Seed, pushing forward theological education, and we hear from a local UK church about what it means to play a part in mission as a CMS link church.

Working alongside locals and immigrants in Spain's economic nightmare and stepping up to the medical mark in Uganda.

Featuring mission partners working among the most marginalised on the edges of the Indian capital, Marcus Throup leading in theological education in Brazil, and CMS's Jonny Baker on a pioneering trip to South Korea.

Holy Trinity Combe Down is a church deeply involved in mission. They are the home church of CMS mission partner Miriam Knowles, who is helping Neema Crafts in Tanzania to change attitudes to disability and support David and Heather Sharland in Uganda. Mike Stranks meets some of the team at the church who are working hard to instil a mission vision throughout the parish. They talk about the rewards...

Featuring Cristobal Ceron reaching out in a student zone in Chile's capital, Jane, an education specialist in Pakistan, and Jonny Baker, leader of CMS's Pioneer mission training team, on a trip to encourage some mission pioneers in South Korea.

Featuring Andy Roberts and ReVive International helping vulnerable girls in Brazil, Bishop Anthony Poggo from South Sudan, and Bishop Peter and Sally Bartlett from Paraguay.

We meet David Hucker, a CMS mission partner who has planted and established a church in Chile over the past 15 years and now feel it's time to move on to a new team in northern Argentina, bringing new life to struggling urban churches. Mike Stranks talked to David and also found out just how critical is the support of churches and individuals at home.

With CMS's Stephen Burgess talking about a pioneering schools link between South Sudan and a Finchley primary school. We also meet mission partner Pat Blanchard working with children with disabilities in Peru and Anna Sims, an arty mission partner who's preparing to go out and help her.

The intriguing impact of sewing clubs in mission in Paraguay, reflecting on the energy of Africa with the CMS executive leader, and how a short term mission trip led to 18 years helping to reconstruct war-torn parts of Africa for one mission partner.

With Eve Vause, 'the real life Chummy' from the BBC series, the Chilean president's chaplain, and the descendant of an Olympic oarsman.

Audiomission meets Anna Sims, a mission partner soon heading to South America to use her art skills in mission, and finds out the story of her call.

Meeting an anonymous mission partner off to what most people think of as a very dangerous part of the world, and talking with Debbie James, CMS's discipleship team leader about a recent trip to India where she met lots of inspiring individuals and pioneering mission workers.

Chatting with CMS's Jo Hazelton about meeting up with a huge variety of CMS people in mission in Paraguay, and to Mary Rollin, who took part in a CMS Encounter team visit to Peru in August.

When we saw one of Call the Midwife's favourite characters, 'Chummy', apply to CMS to go as a missionary to Sierra Leone, we just had to see if we could track down a real 1950s midwife who did the same thing. Audiomission's Mike Stranks talks to Eve Vause, who set off for Sierra Leone, just like Chummy, in 1958.

Audiomission spends some time with Philip Mounstephen, new executive leader of the Church Mission Society, and with Stephen Burgess, CMS's transcultural mission manager for Africa, talking about the urgent situation in DR Congo.

"I don't do this alone," says Philip Mounstephen of his new role leading the Church Mission Society. Mike Stranks spoke to him just a few days into the job.

Focus on Paraguay, with 'extreme nurse' Beryl Baker, UK with urban abbot Mark Berry, and fighting female genital mutilation with Ann-Marie Wilson.

Fresh from her Paraguay road trip meeting CMS people in mission on the ground, CMS's Jo Hazelton reflects on the impact and inspiration of their work

Highlights from the commissioning service of the new executive leader of the Church Mission Society (CMS), the Rev Canon Philip Mounstephen.