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Joining the leadership team of Open Heaven Church, and taking on the leadership of our 18-30’s expression (OH1) a couple of years ago led me to begin thinking far more deeply about church than I had before. I started to think about why we do what we do and how to do what God wants us to do. It’s important for...

Isn’t it funny how a vote, the symbol of democracy and freedom, is so often turned into a threat? Having worked in an MP’s office I can tell you that so many of the emails and letters MPs get are about one specific issue and end with a threat: “your view on this topic will decide my vote.” Often this...

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Northern Irish girl called Gemma. She decided to travel all the way to Wales to study at Swansea University. Along the way during her uni years she struggled to find a church and her faith was slowly pushed to the side lines of life, until it wasn’t a part of who Gemma was...

Esther Kovoor, 20, is a Worship Intern at her local church, Christ Church Clifton, in Bristol. How did you get involved in leading worship? When I was 15 I sang in a talent show in my church youth group. I then started singing in the worship band and later on leading worship. It’s been amazing how God has taken something I was...

The adventure that is Escape and Pray is gathering momentum, over 20 teams booked so far and about 72 people are being sent (where have we heard that before?). To help prepare people we have come up will 10 commandments to help keep us safe and centred on Christ before and during the adventure. 1.    Pause God knows where you are going and...

Thursday morning, in the middle of the Scottish leg of the #fusionroadtrip my phone buzzed as a dream of a text arrived into the palm of my hand. It was from my mate Dan, a student worker from Destiny Church Edinburgh who I’d hung out with only a couple of days earlier, and this is what he said: ‘Miriam, cool story,...

Ben is a student worker in Portsmouth and has an amazing story to tell. Two years ago I was in my third year of University. It was fresher’s week and I was on the streets in the middle of the night helping out with club mission, handing out doughnuts and water to students who were leaving the clubs with my friend Zoe. After some...