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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...

‘We exist to equip people with the tools they need to build God-centred relationships, especially for those who are single or dating’. That’s what I say when people ask what I do, and this often leads to further questions about dating apps, knowing when to commit, breaking-up well, and many questions like this.  Recently my friend asked a question that I...

I stopped ‘going to church’ 35 years ago, when I became involved with a Christian community near London. I wholeheartedly embraced their mantra – ‘Church is what you are, not where you go.’ As a 'new church' we did not meet on a Sunday but on a Thursday, so that weekends were free for people to enjoy time with family, friends...

Worship in groups doesn’t have to involve singing. God has given us a wide range of creative gifts we can use to praise him. The following ideas will work well in small groups.   Write a Psalm Many of the psalms were originally written and used as hymns. Select one to read out, then ask everyone to write their own. Emphasise that the...

Across Wales at the moment we are seeing so many healings! Since May 2014 we have heard about, collected stories, had testimonies and seen with our own eyes over 700 healings!! Steph is a third year student in Swansea Uni and this is her healing story: ‘I had pain in my hip since I was 17 which progressively got worse over the...

If a couple of students came to me with a great vision of doing a banquet for the homeless, I would say "Go for it!" That's not what James Brown from St Thomas Crookes, Sheffield said to Ian Shepherd and Rebecca Emerson when they came to see him. They had a dream to go beyond the regular food on the streets...