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Are we looking to welcome all the students to our towns or just hoping a few Christian ones join our church? In the autumn, over 100,000 students will descend on Manchester for freshers week. In Portsmouth, it will be 21,000 and in Swansea it will be 14,000. How many students will arrive in your town?  About a third of these students will...

Every year, students look younger don't they? I know, it's crazy! But guess what, they're not younger, but we are older! As we get older it becomes harder to release students into leadership because they increasingly seem too young. So we end up only giving opportunities to mid-twenties, then thirties and forties. How old were you when someone trusted you with some...

2005, seems both so long ago and yet like yesterday... I was 15 and like most people my age I started the year with a white band strapped around my wrist. Emblazoned on it where the words 'Make Poverty History' for one year many charities joined together to push governments and inspire citizens from every nation that we could rid this world...

The weeks after Christmas Day can be surreal. It is almost as if the chaotic build up of the previous month’s craziness hits an anti-climatic apex and we are catapulted into having to look towards the fast approaching New Year. The trivial questions of what should I get for my Dad (apart from dodgy socks), shifts towards weightier questions such as...

Did you know? In the 2011 Census, 2.7 million people identified themselves as Muslims; by 2020 there will be an estimated 5.5 million.[i] No doubt you are aware of the current atmosphere of fear towards Muslims and Islam, particularly in light of ISIS, Paris attacks and unrest in the Middle East. Sadly this is not new and has bound the West for...

France has 2.3 million students with the third largest contingent of international students worldwide; 300,000 including around 25,000 from the UK.  Fusion are connected to around 50 churches in France putting them on a global map that is aiming to connect students to churches and strengthen churches’ mission with students.  These Fusion connected churches commit to welcome and disciple students while at university. I’m really excited that Fusion in partnership...

What's your New Years resolution? Mine is to stop eating so many Pringles. I eat a lot, quite an alarming amount so I’m going to try and stop (if you see me eating them, stop me immediately). Have you thought about what your going to give up or take up this year? Could that be church?  Over the past year I...