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1. Encourage students to be bold Our survey last year revealed that 76% of non-Christian students would go to church if a friend invited them. This is great news! There’s only one problem: Christian students aren’t inviting them. There is a huge chasm between the openness of non-Christian students and the confidence of Christian students to invite. As a church leader,...

2. Get students reading scripture 66% of students would like to read the Bible.  Yes, you read that right. We were amazed by this figure too. This is one of the most common ways that we are seeing students come to faith in Jesus. They read the Bible and encounter Jesus in its pages. The Spirit is speaking through scripture to students...

3. Students want to participate not consume church Previous generations assumed that they would turn up to church and it would be run by professionals (staff members) and done to a high quality. They would consume that church service or meeting and then leave again having been positively affected by it. This is no longer the case.  Students today want to participate...

4. Keep your church services consistent  Students are concerned about inviting their mates to church if they don’t know what to expect from any given Sunday. In other words, if one week is going to be really friendly to guests but the next week is going to be a deep dive into Leviticus, whilst assuming everyone is a Christian, they will...

5. Peer-to-peer support is essential One of the strongest messages that came out of the invitation research was that students appreciated peer-to-peer support in the student scene. Of course they love having a meal with a family and learning from older and wiser Christians. But they identified peer friendships as being critical to living missional lives.  We’ve known for a while that...

6. Invite International students So often, students who come from other cultures and countries are keen to experience as many different parts of culture as possible here in the UK. Church can be exactly that for them! They are often curious, open, and tend not to have fixed ideas or preconceptions about what Church is or how it works. Some come...

Reaching the Nations on Campus: A Fortnight of Mission on Loughborough campus Myself and a group of students headed out for a fortnight of campus mission inspired by the recent Fusion Worldview Survey results! Using the survey as a mission tool and equipped with Sow the Word Bibles we jumped into ‘cold contact’ mission. Despite initial nerves, we saw incredible results—over...