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Imagine for a moment Jesus preparing a table for his friends.. Jesus sets the table, he takes care in arranging the table cloth, the silverware, the candles and writes name tags in each person’s place. He prepares a meal, your favourite dish included, he takes his time and serves the food just as his friends arrive.  Some sit at the table, enjoying...

Welcome to the whistle-stop tour of why you should book yourself and your team onto the Fusion Conference online this year! I promise you won’t regret it. So sit back and enjoy reading my top 5 reasons why you should be at the conference this year!   1. Networking central! The Fusion Conference gathers hundreds of students, student workers and church leaders of all...

“Sharing my faith with someone is the best gift I can give them.” Becky, a final year student in Loughborough, is no stranger to sharing her faith, but with churches closed and her ability to meet with friends put on pause, Becky has chosen to take student mission online.  “My main gift is evangelism and this comes naturally to me because I...

I was talking to a student leader recently, called Esther, who had a mini-revelation about mission through discovering her Mission Style. She said it made mission more small-scale for her.  Sounds like a bit of a non-event, right? Like the opposite of a revelation, almost. Any yet...  Small-scale mission, like messy church; sounds kind of fun, exciting, one to get involved with. It...

Recently, an article showed up in my Facebook feed. It was titled, “That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief,” and it included an interview with David Kessler, the man responsible for popularizing the concept of the five stages of grief. According to Kessler, many of us are experiencing unidentified symptoms of grief during this pandemic. The same sentiment appeared again and...

Summer looks so different for the typical christian fresher-to-be Maybe it was that final holiday you had planned? Maybe you had a summer job lined up which has vanished? Or perhaps you were planning on hanging out with all of your mates one last time before you all move away to uni.  Getting Prepared One of my highlights of every summer is running...

This morning, at the time of writing this, I handed in my final undergrad assignment. As always it was a sprint to the finish line, featuring very little sleep and a lot of diet coke. With one hour to go, I pushed the submit button and waited for 'Celebration by Kool and the gang' to start playing in the background....