The Gospel Collective: Recent Episodes
CMS Victoria
The Gospel Collective is a podcast produced by CMS Victoria aimed to help equip, encourage and inspire young adults in Melbourne to keep trusting in Jesus and making his name known both locally and globally.
Episode 11 with Bek Goh is all about giving and mission! Bek works at CMS in Patnership and Fundraising, and has some really excellent things to share about what the bible has to say about giving, and how we might go about giving as young people! Tune in and check it out for yourself!
This episode also comes with some bitter sweet news, we've decided to take a break from the podcast for the remaineder of the year to start prepping for some exciting stuff in the young adult space at CMS in 2021!
Please reach out to us at vic@cms.org.au if you'd like to continue the conversations from this podcast so far!
This week on the Collective Podcast we chat with Lars Vorlicek. Lars leads the youth camp at CMS and is the youth minister at St Hilary's in Kew. He's a super great thinker, and shares some really interesting stuff on encouraging and supporting teenagers as they transition into young adult hood!
This week we're chatting with Mavis Payne, who is an excellent source of wisdom in mentoring and peer to peer discipleship relationships. We continue the conversation from Episode 7 about discipleship with Mavis and talk really practically about how we go about seeking and being involved in mentoring!
This week we chat with recently returned missionaries Brad & Michelle Jackson. They've just come back from 12 and a half years in Kobe, Japan with their three kids. We chat about all things returning including COVID, supermarkets, culture shock and more!
This week we chat the Sam Oldland, who is working at Uni Chruch at St Judes. We talk all things discipleship! Tune in as we start to unpack what a healthy culture of discipleship looks like and how we can make steps to grow and develop as we disciple others and are discipled ourselves!
On this weeks episoide we chat with Jimmy Young from Red Door Church in Caroline Springs and Dave Chiswell from City On A Hill: Melbourne! Tune in to hear about how to share to gospel to people in Melbourne. We'll talk about culture, secularism, world views and more!
This week on Episode 5 we're chatting with Wei-Han Kuan, the CMS Victoria State Director. In this episode Wei-Han is chatting to us about mission and being a missionary both locally and globally. He also recommeneds some great books if you're interested in learning more about mission or are considering becoming a cross-cultural missionary.
Check out his recomendations:
Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper
John G. Paton: Missionary to the Cannibals of the South Seas by Paul Schlehlein
Good News to the Poor by Tim Chester
This week Matt & Tilly chat with Melany Williams about sharing bible stories under the windows of St Paul's Cathedral in the city. Melany shares one of her favourite bible stories and also shares some gospel wins from the pre-covid opportunities she had to share with different people.
Tune in this week to hear from Christine Bird. Christine is a returned missionary with CMS who has been working in Pastoral Care with CMS for some time. During this episode we'll explore the differences and similarities between culture shock that missionaries experience when they go on the field and what we're experiencing during this time of COVID.
This week Matt and Tilly chat with Andrew Gifford. Andrew, along with his family, served in Bacelona for 10 years before returning back to Australia now working at CMS Victoria. Over the years, Andrew has collected a lot of insight in fostering a 'Praying Life'.
To find out more please contact us at vic@cms.org.au!
Tune in as we listen to our hosts Tilly and Matt chatting with Claire Livingstone about relationships and mission in our first ever episode of the Collective Podcast