Aug 1st 2012 -
I can’t think of anything profound to say this morning. I’m sat here at my computer, praying and searching my brain for something profound to share with you, but I'm genuinely drawing a blank. I could just not write but as I realise there’s nothing profound to be said I can’t help but think that this must, so often, be a...
Jul 30th 2012 -
Sarah Crane is a Pastor for Youth and Children in Shoeburyness & Thorpe Bay Baptist Church, near Southend. She has blogged for us on her experience in preparing young people for uni. When I arrived in Southend to work for my church in July 2010, I very hurriedly met those who were leaving for university or to start gap years that September. As...
Jul 26th 2012 -
When you go home for summer from Uni, do your family, your home church, your mates, know you? As in, the uni-you? Personally, I found that by turning up to a new church at uni where people didn’t have a clue who I was or what I could “do”, actually meant that my new leaders were able to spot characteristics and...
Jul 25th 2012 -
80 more down, 1,300 to go. We've only been at the New Wine LSE festival for 3 days and already we've connected 80 school leavers to churches in their uni towns. We already also have over 600 linked up by youthworkers, schools workers and online. Our aim is to connect 2,500 by the end of the summer. Imagine that - 2,500...
Jul 23rd 2012 -
I dare you to take a risk on God. A fantastic student worker contacted me recently to let me know that he wasn't able to continue his call to students as his church had decided to cut the funding for his role. He explained how he was now looking for an office job to pay the bills. I asked him if...
Jul 19th 2012 -
So here’s a question: if you led a church, what would you do to make it the best place possible for students? What three things would happen, what three principles would be most important, how would you design your church community for students? Whether you’re part of a church community or not, whether you've ever stepped inside a church building or not, if you...
Jul 18th 2012 -
A day is like a thousand years and three years is like a day. The words of 2 Peter 3:8, giving us God’s perspective on time, have always seemed a poetic mystery to me. Yet seeing photos of some of my best friends graduate yesterday I get it. Three years feels like five minutes, and yet at the same time, three...
