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If I’m really honest, the idea of a Bible study can sometimes sound quite boring. For me it can evoke ideas of sitting on an uncomfortable pew, in an old cold church and either not knowing what to say about a passage, or listening to others and forgetting what they said 10 minutes later. Unfortunately, this might be the experience for...

There is nothing more encouraging than seeing friends baptised! After welcoming students into their church throughout Freshers, The Belfrey in York decided to host a baptism service. When they were planning their services, they couldn’t predict how many people would choose to get baptised! However, the student team gathered and prayed for 10 students to choose to get baptised.  6 days...

  The God who created you, the God who created the universe, the God of hope, life, freedom and joy, the God of immeasurably more isn’t simply looking to visit your small group, or show up if He has time. He is looking to make it his home!  When you show up to your small group, or when you lead your small...

“It was strange. I saw so many students that looked really lost and afraid, but they would just gather around the music and felt like they were a part of something.” It was Freshers week in Manchester. 6 churches in the city had decided to come together and invite students to try church at university by gathering together on campus. Unsure...

What is your calling? The outworking of our calling will look different for each of you, some of you may be called to business or to medicine or politics or ministry, but the calling on all of our lives is simple at its core. We are all called to follow Jesus, called to know Him more each day, to live...

With term very much in full swing, deadlines mounting up and stress creeping in, Will, from the Mind and Soul Foundation, shares some advice on how to protect your mental health and how to thrive at university.  The student years are some of the most emotionally turbulent of our lives, largely because of the dramatic transition between life in a family...

In my mind, I am a seriously fantastic runner.  I stride around the town of Reading, my long limbs propelling me forward as I knock off kilometre after kilometre. Personal bests tumble, sweat pours from my brow, and the endorphin rush leaves me feeling sky-high.  Except that all of that is a lie.  I huff and I puff around the loop I’ve settled...