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I recently went with a bunch of students to a Guy Fawkes/Fireworks night at a university campus. The place was packed as everyone tried to push on to the fair rides that had been trucked in for the evening. We nervously lined up for one ride which was a big UFO type contraption with pads lining the inside walls. You stand against...

Last Saturday I painted my entire face gold, sprayed glitter in my hair and adorned myself with gold clothing. As I glimpsed at myself in the mirror I thought; the things I do for student ministry. I was about to head out onto the streets with some of my students to pray over the city and give gifts out to...

How do you feel when you hear that word ‘invitation’? When it comes to sharing our faith it may be something that creates one of two reactions in you. It may fill you with excitement at the chance to share and reach out. Or it may fill you with dread: the potential for rejection, the cold response from a friend...

Craig is Curate at St Mary Bredin church in Canterbury, where he oversees the student work. He graduated from St John’s College, Durham, too long ago now, is married to Becky and has recently become a dad to little Noah. He is passionate about seeing people journey to faith and taking hold of their faith to live it out. I went off...

Student Linkup is Fusion’s church finding app and website: www.studentlinkup.org. Annabel and Adam explain why they would recommend it. Annabel Annabel Hawkins is a law student who found that Student Linkup helped her get stuck into church straightaway. By the end of her first year two of her mates had got involved too. I signed up to the Student Linkup app at a...

Are we following Jesus at all? Last week I helped run an event for twenty-somethings in Ireland and we had Pete Portal sharing with us and something he said caught my attention.  He said ‘Following Jesus will always take us to people on the margins of society, and if it doesn’t we need to ask ourselves are we following Jesus at all? Now for me...

November rolls round, fireworks spark off everywhere, bonfires gather and warm us and Christmas lights start to appear. Celebration is in the air. But what are we celebrating? What do we actually have to celebrate? As you remember, remember this 5th November, and throughout this season of wintery celebrations: what are you celebrating? We are invited by our extravagant God, and even instructed...