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I hugged my mum goodbye, waved at her as she drove away, and made my way back to my bedroom in my new halls of residence. As I sat down on my slightly uncomfortable single bed with springs that squeaked way too much, a resounding “what next?” filled my mind. Lectures didn’t start for another week. Not all of my flatmates had...

James studied Management at UMIST between 2000 and 2003 where he was a member of Ivy Church, a Fusion Connection Church. Today he is the Managing Director of Hampton Manor, a Michelin starred ‘restaurant with rooms’ in Birmingham. As a student I helped run Alpha courses in Manchester curry houses We had 90 people on some courses. Students can’t resist free food and...

“The prayer life of our church has transformed completely.” I couldn’t help but grin to myself as Evelyn, from the Anglican Church of Luxembourg, gushed down the phone to me about the impact that a few students and a student worker had had on their church by visiting them during Escape and Pray. She spoke of how their boldness and obedience has...

Your dream was drama school, and you got in. Next... who knows? The industry I guess... somehow. But you have to get through this training first, well not just get through, you want to thrive and shine. You've almost finished your first term and the hours are longer than you'd expected, the pain from those movement classes is bittersweet and lecturers...

We have been at 21 Freshers fairs across the UK inviting all students to #Trychurch. We've heard so many encouraging stories. Here's Ed's: Ed's Story "Recently I helped run a stall at Chester University’s Fresher’s Fair with Fusion and #TryChurch. We talked to a lot of students and encouraged them to try church. This opened up conversations and questions and was a great opportunity to...

In its first four years Touchpoint has reached 700 students and young people in five of Norway’s university cities and towns. Caroline Harmon caught up with Roy Elling back in May to find out more. Roy Elling Foss is employed by the Missionary Federation to build Touchpoint Norway. Roy lives in Kristiansand, and leads Touchpoint Kristiansand and Touchpoint Norway. Tell us a...

Richard Blizzard is studying Product Design at Nottingham Trent University. He joined Trent Vineyard Church after finding the church through the Student Linkup app. We caught up with him the day after he handed in his final project for his second year. Student Linkup helped me so much. I probably wouldn’t have gone to church at uni without it. I found out...