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We can get so worried about our future post-Uni. When I was finishing my degree it was like everyone else knew what they wanted to do or where they were going to go and I was last to find a job to go onto. The truth is we don't want any job, we want the best job for us, the job...

Each year the halls next to St John’s church host a welcome BBQ.  Burgers are flipped and students wander down for some free food and, the halls hopes, some new student bonding time.  Unfortunately though, the students have seemed rather more interested in the former than the latter - collecting their burgers and heading back to their rooms to eat...

A few weeks ago I visited New Community Church in Southampton. It's a great church in the centre of town with a vibrant student work. Year on year student numbers fluctuate. Adam Clewer, one of the church leaders said, "sometimes we are the popular church, sometimes it's another church." But recently, things have begun to change. They have been thinking about the students...

Chloe’s most daring moments so far 1993-2015 -Prayed for my driving instructors back to be healed. -Jumped off a cliff into the sea (it felt daring at the age of 13) -Unashamedly stood up for my faith in School and Uni. -Copied the Notebook and lay in the middle of the road looking at the traffic lights. -Eaten a cows tongue -Went swimming in a lake...

'We did some stuff for students and to be honest...it failed.'  I hear this from loads of different churches all across the UK.  As I contact each of our Connection churches - sometimes starting a new conversation, sometimes catching up after a few months - each has a very different story to tell. Some are reeling from incredible answers to prayer and...

You’re starting uni soon, how exciting! Take a bit of time out to chill out, grab a cup of tea and work through some of these questions. If there is anyone else in your youth group heading to uni too, why not send these over to them too.               What words best describe how you feel about starting uni?  What do you want to pursue...

Dr Micha Jazz has been walking the path of a Contemplative Activist for around ten years. Here he explores the difference between meditation and contemplation and looks at them in three different ways. Meditation and contemplation are two distinct prayer disciplines forming part of the fivefold framework for encountering God: Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Meditation and Contemplation.  Meditation uses some external reference, say...