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Anna Mason is the student worker at Exeter Network Church (ENC) and she has blogged for us on why she takes Student Linkup seriously.  Reality Sucks Sometimes! The statistic, 73% of Christians who go off to university never make it to a church, is shocking! I used to try to lessen the blow in my mind by assuming most those 73% probably...

‘I’d have given you anything you asked for because you came here to ask for something outside of yourself.” In a culture where the only things that students are known for campaigning and petitioning about student loans and debt, what happened to students who changed culture and pressured parliament on behalf of others? I think we forget too easily the revolutionary...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...