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“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...

I’ve always had this little idea to one day get through all the red tape and have a bungee jump on campus during freshers week. I’m picturing a massive crane, parked up in the centre of uni, and if I was really shameless I’d make a big banner and call it ‘the leap of faith’. During fresher’s week, whilst everyone is...

Over the last three weeks we have been at 21 different freshers fairs, inviting students to #Trychurch, daring them to experience something life changing, to discover community, discover home and discover Jesus.   "What is church like?" Across the 21 different cities, 421 students said yes to giving church a try, and one of the most asked questions was "what is church,...