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Honor is a second year student at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, in Leeds. Before she came to uni Honor felt that God was wanting to use her time at uni really significantly. She had a picture of her uni as a warm pool and started praying that during her time there the spiritual temperature of the campus would be...

In Loughborough, a group of students have begun interviewing students on campus and in town to kickstart conversations about faith and Jesus.  As a group, they wanted to get active in living out and sharing their faith to provide opportunities for other students to continue in or kick-start a journey with Jesus. By interviewing people and sharing it on their social...

One morning, during the Bristol Uni freshers week, I found myself praying for international students. I didn’t really know what to pray for but I felt led to ask God that international students would find church communities and settle well into university life. While this was happening, a random bakery came to mind that was in the main ‘student area’...

As a student worker, my prayer during freshers week is always that new students find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. As thousands of freshers move to the city every September there is a huge opportunity to reach them with the love of Jesus.  BUT…this year I have been surprised by the number of 2nd and 3rd year...

Every student prayed for and every campus prayer-walked.  We are delighted to be partnering with our friends across the student mission landscape in prayer. Over this academic year, we are encouraging churches, CUs, student groups and individual students to prayer-walk using the Oikos Prayer app. We are going to prayer-walk every campus, every hall of residence, every lecture block and every...

As we exhibit at Fresher Fairs across the country we are hearing lots of stories of students being open to trying church as part of their university experience. At one of the Freshers Fairs last week, one of our team members spoke to a student who like many students was looking quite overwhelmed in the sea of stands, freebies, and opportunities....

Packed streets due to students moving in, social media posts buying (and selling) freshers wrist bands, and time spent desperately trying to think of a better ice breaker than “So where are you from?”- it’s obvious that freshers season is back on. For Fusion, part of freshers season includes joining in with local churches at Freshers Fayres to invite the 99% of...