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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...

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...

A group of students from Cheltenham saw a need and did something about it. Check out the story of ‘Glitter Mission’…   I was part of a friendship group where the highlight of the week was going out clubbing and getting drunk. I loved going out, but I was stirred inside as I knew I had found something deeper in God. This started...

“Heya girls, come and find a seat… no don’t stay at the back, look this front row has your name on it, come and join me down here!”  As the student girls snuck in during the start of my talk, I felt it was an informal enough scenario get them joining the rest of the group rather than staying anonymous on the...

Polly is our guest blogger today. She loves the youth of Colchester and works for Hand in Hand.  On a Tuesday evening our church looks different, perhaps a little controversial to say but I think it looks better! That’s because it becomes a base for 13-18 year olds in Colchester. It’s their space to explore faith and relationship. The opportunity to ask the difficult...

"We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible. So we will do them anyway.”   William Wilberforce, a great hero of faith, church, politics and social change who took Paul’s words to Timothy very seriously. ‘Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in...

Torn between spending time with housemates or course mates or church mates? Do you prioritise your sports team, or small group, or the library? As a Christian student, the demands on your time are potentially even more varied and pressurised than your average UK student.  But we don’t just want to hypothesise about this. We want the cold hard stats that...