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Your new chapter awaits... You’ve hauled your boxes up 10 flights of stairs, had a parent cry on the journey and met your new house mates for the next year. Now what? Every University and city will have their own way of welcoming students in, but let’s start with some basics of what to expect.  Pace yourself- Mark 6:31  Moving to university is a...

When Grace started university, she had no idea the impact that finding a local church would have on her faith and mental health during uni. Her story is one of hope, of connection and of salvation. We asked Grace to share some more of her story here.  Before starting uni, what was your relationship with faith/Jesus like? "My relationship with Jesus before...

In retrospect, sausages and Yorkshire puddings for breakfast was a dreadful choice. Nevertheless, this is the situation I found myself in on a September morning in 2015. I was about to start life as a Politics student at the University of East Anglia, and the nerves had set in. I wasn’t feeling very well prepared.  Now, if you’re reading this and thinking...

University is your chance to embrace some great opportunities, lay some strong foundations and discover what it is like to have God walk with you through it all. On average, you have 3 or 4 years to get a degree, pursue some extra-curricular activities, embrace adulthood and independence and hopefully make an impact on your fellow students!  There are 3 foundational...

Jelaena, a student from Bristol, chose to get baptised during her first year at university. We asked her about her experience in her first year. Here's some of her story.  What was your experience of faith like before university?  "I can joke about it now but, at the time, I was pretty much an atheist pretending to be a Christian. This was, in...

From the moment a young person goes to university, they will have many questions flying through their mind; Will they make friends? Will they find their way around the city? Will they get immersed in the university culture and disengage with God completely? Do they even want to find a church at university? University has so many distractions and challenges...

For some, cabin fever has itched your need to escape the clutches of home life. For others, waving goodbye to your sheltered burrow has been testing and overwhelming at times. Maybe you sit firmly in both camps? Exhilarated by the opportunities university presents yet weirdly unsettled by the unknown and way ahead.  Derived from the Greek word ‘Ecclesia’, ‘Church’ is given...