Jul 14th 2015 -
Uni is one of the best experiences of my life so far… It was so much FUN! I made life long friends, learnt loads, it challenged my perception of the world and how I study. I also got plugged in to a local church on my first week. I spent my three years of uni in that church, serving, being mentored,...
Jul 9th 2015 -
My summer looks like a sea of a thousand faces. Faces of young people I mainly I never get a chance to know the names of, hear their stories, find out where they’re hoping to go to uni. But with every face I see, my whispered prayer is that they would thrive in their walk with Jesus through the wildness...
Jul 2nd 2015 -
Whenever I deliver talks on dating and relationships, I always leave time for Q&A. Usually, there is one question in particular which stands out, and at a recent event this question came from a young man who asked: ‘As a single person, how can I help dating couples in my church?’ I think this question is great because it’s encouraging to...
Jun 16th 2015 -
Jenna is a third year student at Cardiff uni, from South Africa but loving Wales! She is soon to become the new Student Worker at City Temple Cardiff and is buzzing with student stories from her final year. She was so excited to tell me the story of Joe who arrived at Cardiff last September. What stood out to Jenna was that...
Jun 12th 2015 -
After a recent talk I did on dating, a woman in her mid 20s asked to speak with me. She explained that she had dated someone before for a long time and thought they would eventually get married. She then said: ‘He was great, but the enjoyment had been missing for a while, so we ended it. Have I lost ‘the...
Jun 11th 2015 -
I hadn't expected to be sipping herbal tea with an Iraqi, an Iranian and an Eritrean (a country bordering Sudan, Ethiopia… basically it’s a troubled area) on a Thursday night in Sunderland. I’d gone to the Northern city, where over 17,000 students spend their university years, to serve and encourage the local churches in the area in their crucial role of...
Jun 4th 2015 -
Fusion talk a lot about going to university – that life transition of moving away from home to a new location, and how to navigate such a big change. But what about afterwards? What about the transition from student to graduate? In one church I spoke to the other week, they realised they had a growing number of students who were staying...
