Two teams departed to Escape & Pray today landing in:

• Alicante, Spain
• Ljubljana, Slovenia

14 teams were due to return to the UK today, although three didn't make it due to airline strikes and Gatwick’s collapsing runway! They get an extra night.

Being Sunday, lots of teams visited church gatherings today. Communicating the vision of Student Linkup to churches is crucial to this movement of church & students; that wherever a student goes to study in the world there’s a local church community ready to welcome them. View more here.

The day started with Rich & Joel being sent to one of the lesser known Escape & Pray destinations, Ljubljana. Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia has a student population of 63,000 students and is among the largest universities in Europe. Soon after landing it seems Rich & Joel met Bojan, a local church student worker. Connections and coincidences are happening all over. Just this evening our team in Stavanger met a contact of Rich’s. Rich made a trip to Norway recently exploring church & students with local leaders. The Net is growing. 

We've had the pleasure of meeting two YWAM communities this weekend, one in Stockholm and another in Copenhagen. Our team in Madrid made it to two church services and were blessed with Mexican lunch from American missionaries.

 

Had the privilege to meet, pray and hang out with a team from #escapeandpray Awesome english people! #prayForEurope #prayForCopenhagen #ywamcph #ywamcopenhagen

A photo posted by Christer Andersen (@chri5t3r) on Jun 11, 2016 at 3:02pm PDT

Alan's team continued to have a God planned time in Bucharest. After being hosted in the ‘house of shalom’ they were invited to three different church services; Baptist, Catholic & Pentecostal. Alan had the opportunity to share with the church about revival in universities and churches throughout Europe & beyond linking up to welcome students.  

In Nantes, France our team experienced God’s provision but were taken aback by the secular culture.

Our team in Sofia have simply seemed to have had an amazing time! Last night they treated locals to dinner after being welcomed into a youth conference. They've laid hands & prayed for Sofia uni and were joined by a local Christian passing by.

Back home in the UK students are preparing to depart. One Leicester church has today commissioned four teams of students departing later this week. 

Tweet of the day

Photo of the day

 

Sofia you have stolen my heart. I haven't even been home an hour and already I want to go back. God has answered every single prayer for us this weekend and provided for us in abundance! We are so thankful for the people we met, who helped us and the people who let us pray for them. I cannot wait to hear about revival and big things that happen there in there next few years because of the courage and boldness of people sharing Gods love to the city! It may be the first time I have visited Sofia, but it will definitely not be the last. Until next time ❤️ #escapeandpray #Sofia #Bulgaria

A photo posted by Mollie Morrison (@weemollie) on Jun 12, 2016 at 8:58am PDT

Join us in praying for

• 12 teams departing to #EscapeAndPray tomorrow
• More God connections and appointments. 
• Our three teams who've had flight cancellations - that they'd be able to return home tomorrow easily

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