“Not everyone is called to go, but everyone is called to wrestle with going.” It was those words from David Platt at a conference her freshman year of college that convicted Anna Thormodsgard and started her missions journey.
Dylan Ferguson understands how music can lead to intimate communion and relationship with God because he has been involved with music and worship arts in his home church, Wildewood Christian Church in the Omaha, Nebraska area, since he was in high school.
Exciting changes are taking place in the CMF office in Indianapolis! Several of our long-time staff members are taking on new roles to better serve our missionaries now and into the future.
Did you know that there are many ways to serve in international missions, beyond the more traditional sense of planting churches? One of the many roles to play as an international missionary is teacher. For years, CMF has partnered with Bingham Academy, a Christian school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, sending qualified teachers to educate students from Ethiopia and all over the world, sharing the love of Jesus in this way. Several other CMF missionaries have taught in other contexts all over the world, from local schools to homeschooling other missionaries’ children.
Meredith McKinney recently celebrated her 10-year anniversary of moving to Scotland to work with Roots, a CMF Globalscope campus ministry in Edinburgh. She also recently returned from a sabbatical
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.
Last year brought a lot of unexpected challenges to CMF Ethiopia team members Travis and Emily Weeks, but they are happy to report that the ministry with their partner, the Kristos Andinet Churches, is going great!
Craig Fowler was part of a baptism service for 24 new Christians in Assosa, Ethiopia, in August, and he shares that it’s all part of a big story of what God is doing in Ethiopia, where he and his family have served for 15 years.