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Is God Calling you Overseas?

Is God Calling you Overseas?

Gather to Scatter — Shaping Hearts and Minds for Global Mission NZCMS is a rich com­munity of people from many diverse back­grounds, ages and exper­i­ences — from young stu­dents explor­ing the big ques­tions to middle-aged couples with young chil­dren to returned Mission Part­ners con­tinu­ing to serve…

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Sending Kiwis to the World — Looking Back as We Go Forward

Sending Kiwis to the World — Looking Back as We Go Forward

In this video, our National Dir­ector Rosie Fyfe re-affirms NZCMS’ focus to train, send and support Kiwi Mission Part­ners as they serve in God’s mission. Though we have other import­ant min­is­tries we are com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing, sending Mission Part­ners will always be the biggest part of who we are…

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Renovating for the Gospel – Support a Building Project in South Asia

Renovating for the Gospel – Support a Building Project in South Asia

Our Mission Partner in South Asia will soon start a new chapter in her long mission service, relo­cat­ing to serve under a dif­fer­ent diocese. Return­ing in March, she has been invited to support the diocese through spir­itual form­a­tion, ment­or­ing, running retreats, and serving as an education…

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New Evangelism Partnership to New Zealand’s Hippie Scene 

New Evangelism Partnership to New Zealand’s Hippie Scene 

In 2025, NZCMS is excited to start a new part­ner­ship with an evan­gel­ism min­istry to New Zealand’s new-age hippie scene led by Rev Mark Johnson and his wife Kirsty. Sur­prised by a Kingdom Vision NZCMS is a com­munity pas­sion­ate about God’s mission in the world. We are called by God to encour­age and…

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Are you Seriously Interested in Mission?

Are you Seriously Interested in Mission?

Over the course of the last three years NZCMS have been build­ing various small groups for global mission pas­sion­ate people called “Ser­i­ously Inter­ested in Mission”. These groups have been stead­ily growing and we now have regular meet­ings across Aotearoa. First planted in Otau­tahi Christ­ch­urch by…

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IN MEMORIAM — Elizabeth Mary Cooke, Feb 27, 1926 – Sept 27, 2024

IN MEMORIAM — Elizabeth Mary Cooke, Feb 27, 1926 – Sept 27, 2024

Mary Cooke, wife of the late David Cooke, died recently at the age of 98. Mary and David were NZCMS mis­sion­ar­ies in South India 1960–1963. David was the Prin­cipal of the Noble Higher Sec­ond­ary School in Machilip­at­nam, taking over when the school was at a very low ebb and seeing it considerably…

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Mission Partner in Cambodia Gives Update on Future Ministry

Mission Partner in Cambodia Gives Update on Future Ministry

Adrienne is a NZCMS Mission Partner, serving as a com­munity children’s worker in the rural village area in Bat­tam­bang, Cam­bodia. She helps with lit­er­acy and a com­ple­ment­ary program to the local school extend­ing the children’s edu­ca­tion. It’s with sadness that I inform you that I have just…

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CMS Global Chairs Gathering 2024

CMS Global Chairs Gathering 2024

Never before have all the CMS Chair­per­sons met in person from around the globe. For the past four years, CMS Chair­per­sons have met twice yearly via Zoom to build a sense of global fra­tern­ity, hear about each other’s plans, and learn from one another for the good of the mission world­wide. Last year…

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Latest Events

Is God Calling you Overseas?

Gather to Scatter — Shaping Hearts and Minds for Global Mission

Over the past year we’ve been working away quietly in the back­ground, plan­ning ways to invite and send a whole new wave of Mission Part­ners to serve God. One of the ways we’ve decided to do this is to run an event called “Gather to Scatter”. This is for those who are ser­i­ously con­sid­er­ing serving…

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Are you Seriously Interested in Mission?

Seriously Interested in Mission

You might know that you want to serve in global mission one day. But what do you do in the interim? Who can you talk to about it? How do you prepare? In part­ner­ship with WEC NZ, we have launched two small groups for those ‘ser­i­ously inter­ested in mission’. These groups bring like-minded people…

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NZCMS Support Groups & Events

NZCMS Support Groups & Events

NZCMS holds regular sup­porter events in Auck­land, Nelson, Christ­ch­urch, and Dunedin. These are a valu­able way to hear about the work of NZCMS from Mission Part­ners and staff, and to pray together. Every­one is welcome. Please check your loc­a­tion for further details.

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