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A friend recently asked me, “How do you work with young adults and stay sane? They know nothing and they think they know everything - annoying!” I shared Richard Rohr’s quote with him. “Without the old man, the young man can’t do anything. Without the young man, the old man won’t do anything.  It is so important for established church leaders to...

"What's the plan when you graduate?" A student's answer to this question usually involves jobs and money.  Their answer hardly ever includes location or church community. Not on the radar. When I ask more directly people say, "I could go anywhere, wherever the job is. I guess I'll find a church there too."  The Bible is full of people who are committed to...

Next week I’m going to Uganda to visit an AIDs charity for ten days.  I’m not that nervous, perhaps not as nervous as I should be. Three years ago I co-led a trip to Cambodia where 13 of us served a local charity for ten days.  We saw heartbreaking things, many of the students we took were challenged to their core...

This month I was going to write about New Year’s resolutions and share lots of my thoughts on how we could live in a way that is in step with the great commandments… then I realised that I have no ideas, thoughts or words that are anywhere near as good as Jesus’ mandate that we see in Isaiah 61 and...

Don’t tell anyone, but I know a division of undercover missionaries. You won’t notice them. They just look like regular people. They are incognito. Hidden. Disguised as students. Living amongst the masses in the university realm. Hardly anyone knows that they are agents of a different Kingdom. Their primary occupation is to care about and gradually guide the people around them to...

My friends and I have decided not to let 2014 happen to us. Rather than living in reaction to the ups and downs life throws at us, we are heading into the new year on the front foot. We are putting stakes in the ground now, for what we want to see happen in 2014, regardless of what might be...

As the Christmas break draws to a close here are ten questions for students before heading back into the fray! The first term was a foundations term. First years find their feet, middle years settle into a routine, final years look towards exams and the next step.  Wherever you’re at, your last term would have been a turning point.  Its the same...