"At the moment the future seems quite bright: theres been four people ordained this year on Groote Eylandt," he says. In five out of the six parishes people who have been ordained or who are on track to ordination.

Of 100 congregations [in Chiles Anglican Church], there are only three people with training equivalent to any Sydney clergy. Thats the same numbers as in the parish where Ive been working in Sydney.

CMS missionaries Martin and Julie Field will leave Sydney in February to help grow future Latin American church leadership.

Kiran Desai successfully weaves together the microcosm with the macrocosm in the 2006 Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss.

Tim says has seen the dramatic impact of the Colleges ministry in the lives of his students who have been thoroughly enmeshed in a cultural Catholicism.

A former television show host and Sydney Anglican minister is moving to Melbournes east for a new phase of ministry.

"In Australia we take for granted our schooling, training, access to Christian books and good teaching. In Tanzania these are regarded as precious gifts from God," Sue says.

As CMS begins its week-long Summer School, two mission-minded books hit the shelves that trace the historical and personal cost of witnessing throughout the world.