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I’m a fan of the principle ‘belong before you believe’. In my church community, I want anyone to be able to turn up on a Sunday and feel in the loop and part of the family. During the week, the hope is that our community is naturally hanging out with and inviting in, more and more people yet to know...

Shouting down the corridor. A bang on the door. The sound of someone being sick. A rude awakening. Especially at 4am.  Imagine though being woken up on campus by a lot worse.  Back in October, Nigerian student Elkanah Sardauna woke up to see an angry mob, waving machetes and guns, storm into his room. They dragged him out of bed, and shouted:...

“Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread.” A bit of the Lord’s Prayer that we might say every so often. We might even reflect on it, but how often do we wonder how many people across the world actually receive their ‘daily bread’. Not just spiritual sustenance, but physical nutrients....

I think there might actually be too many good things you can be involved with at uni. One of my biggest struggles and greatest areas of learning whilst I was a student, was how to manage my time effectively. And by effectively, I don’t mean see how many things I could cram in to every day in order to do the...

There I was, signing on at my local job centre, promising to apply for at least 2 jobs a week. I’d finished uni, worked as a student worker and research assistant for a year and was now trying to work out the rest of my life. They asked me to tick boxes to show which areas of work I was...

He tells me I am invisible Unnoticeable  That in the grand scheme of things I’ll never be anything More than negligible, neglectable But God says, baby I see you, Dancing to Taylor Swift, alone in your room And my child, what’s more, Even before you were born I saw you He tells me I am voiceless That no-one hears this voice that Screams and rants and raves And no-one would listen anyway Even if...

A Guest blog from our mate Andy at SPEAK, loving our tax collectors... Did Jesus pick on Zacchaeus because he was wealthy? Or did he pick on him because he wasn’t saved? Or was it simply because he was short? (This is a joke. I promise. I am 5 foot 6). At the beginning of Luke 19:1-10, we read that Zacchaeus was...