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Last weekend at the Manchester Learning Communities, church leaders and student workers chatted about where students are leading and influencing. It was so exciting to hear about so many students influencing not only in church but all over the place!! Where are you influencing?  The 7 Spheres (or mountains) was a vision given by God to Loren Cunningham (YWAM Founder), Bill Bright...

A couple of weeks ago I attended a conference with the title “Dangerous Dreamers”. It was the National Leaders Vineyard Conference with just under 2000 leaders from across the UK. I heard the stories of many normal people, like you and me, who have gone and done seriously dangerous things because God gave them a dream; a dangerous dream. Things like: Moving to...

Last month I had an operation. Nothing serious but something that was going to keep me off work for at least 3 weeks. Needless to say, I wasn’t looking forward to it. It wasn’t the pain of the operation or the recovery in hospital after the operation. It was the fact that I was going to be out of action from...

I asked a group of people including church leaders, post grads, and some of my own uni mates this question… If you could have your time again in uni, what would you do? What advice would you give yourself?  This is what they'd say to their younger selves... Be confident in your faith, not embarrassed by it. You have something amazing to offer...

I remember chatting with a teenager in my church about fasting. He said "Christians don't fast, that's for other religions." Maybe that's your view? Fasting is often seen as pious and irrelevant to our gospel of grace. At worst legalism and a distraction to the mission. Lent starts this Wednesday 10th with TheFastUK initiative encouraging us to fast. My question is "Can a new generation...

Hi, I’m Grace, and I’m a mermaid. … Okay, I’m clearly not, but recently a member of my church had a picture of me as a mermaid, able to communicate with people of the land and the sea. As a Modern Languages graduate, this picture was significant, because it was God showing me the wealth of people that I had the...

Have you ever tried "triple listening"? It was a first for me the other week. I was in Lyon with the Fusion team hosting church leaders and student workers in France. It was wonderful to have 27 leaders from 16 churches (Roman Catholic and Protestant) representing 8 cities meet for the first time with the agenda to develop student mission in France. The...