CMS mission partners work in Europe, East, North and West Africa, the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent and Central and South East Asia. A good number of CMS' partner churches are small,struggling and under pressure. You may be asked to work in a situation that is very different from any that you have encountered before. There may be a different local understanding of the demands of your job, so you may need to draw on your personal store of physical, emotional and spiritual resources. The most common experience of those in CMS mission service is frustration and the most needed virtue is long-suffering.
Some locations involve the risk of physical danger.
Previous overseas experience can prove invaluable. In our experience it requires a minimum commitment of four to six years for a mission partner to adapt to a new environment and make a useful contribution. Selection CMS' selection procedures are not about passing or failing. We believe it is important for you and us to discover and test your particular calling. This process may lead you to a vocation as a CMS mission partner, to service with another agency, or even help you to confirm that you should stay in your present area of work.