After a three year gap, it was fantastic to be able to gather once again in person for our annual CMSI Ignite Conference earlier this month at Dromantine! There was a lovely atmosphere at the Friday night extra with around 30 delegates meeting for worship, fellowship and a good bit of craic! One of the highlights was having Adrian Dorrian in our own CMSI Nolan Show interviewing former staff member Jen Christie along with newcomers Wendy Houston and Emma Lutton. Saturday’s mai

At the start of September, CMSI launched its annual theme for 2022-23, ‘Living Lights’. The purpose of having an annual theme is to help shape our focus for events, the literature we produce in print and online, as well as directing our wider church engagement across the year. Our hope is that through the annual theme we will shine another light on mission and the church, one that will aid each of us in our understanding of and engagement with God’s mission here on earth. Thi

As names go it's quite long: The Church of Jesus Christ the Light of the World. In Old Cairo it is next to the Deaf School. Bertie and I were there on Sunday evening for the Arabic service. Rev Kamil and his wife, Joujou, are obviously doing a great job. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit. It was joyful and uplifting, yet the members of the congregation certainly have their fair share of problems. The congregation were from a wide variety of backgrounds but they had a receptivit