Nov 24th 2011 -
The government are putting students “at the heart” of their plans, but where exactly do students want that to be? I’ve been keeping track of reports on the latest student protest march to grace the streets of the capital and it’s made for quite interesting reading. Some of you won’t have even heard another protest took place; if you don’t have...
Nov 21st 2011 -
I recently spent a Saturday in a smoky warehouse. joined hundreds of young people in praying for this nation. PrayerStorm in Manchester. It was humbling to be part of something so simple. A girl at the front shared, "We hold a small but powerful key. The key is prayer. Prayer to the Lord God Almighty in our lives. And it unlocks...
Nov 14th 2011 -
"There is an 80% chance you will die if you do this." That is what the Student Volunteer Movement said to the students who were interested in becoming missionaries. Despite this, between 1850 and 1950, nearly 10,000 young people took them up on the offer to share the amazing good news of Jesus all over the world and those mortality...
Nov 11th 2011 -
A powerful and challenging guest blog from Nick Welford, Youth Worker extraordinaire in Scarborough. It was my first free weekend in over a month and I was, on the motorway. Why? To see one of my former young people who had now become a fresher. This lad had traversed the pit falls of secondary school and still come out with a...
Nov 10th 2011 -
When the band put their song lyrics on a projection screen for everyone in the room to read, Lizzie was quite rightly, a little confused. Last week I was visiting Birmingham, encouraging church leaders and student workers to keep engaging with the thousands of students that move into their city (only rivalled by London in size), every year. In the evening,...
Nov 8th 2011 -
The revision pressure for mocks will soon start mounting. How do we help our young people stay committed to loving God and loving their mates amidst the pressure? Starting with the latter, check out these 2 stories: A final year university student was woken at 5am by a call from a panicking friend. The two students were part-way through their 48 hour...
Nov 7th 2011 -
Something is brewing. Whispers about it are going round the gossip networks. The smell of hope rather than cynicism is in the air. With words of love rather than hate on their lips, the Jesus followers are rising up. On the 1st December, thousands of students will gather, in flashmob style, at a specific point in their cities for an hour...
