Blog: Students

'Quidditch society... is that even a thing?’ ‘Yup… we even had the Taylor Swift appreciation society.' The choices you make a university will lay foundations for the rest of your life. This is your time to make the most of the opportunities that you’re faced with and discover what it means to have God alongside you throughout all of it. The decisions...

Think you’ve experienced it all? Think again…  When you hear the words ‘student culture’ what first comes to mind? Drinking? Relationships? Drugs? The university culture is most likely completely different to anything you’ll have experienced before. It has its own climate, always changing, always evolving and through that provides some of the most exciting opportunities.  God desires a generation of students that live in the...

When you're in a muddy field and the ground is shaking because the bass is so loud with the distant shout of 'hot chocolate mountain' you know you’re at Soul Survivor! I was so excited to get stuck into the summer festivals again this year meeting loads of students and sixth formers who are heading off to uni this September.  One of the things that...

Welcome to your summer and all the part-time jobs, internships, old friend catch-ups and adjusting to being back with the parents, that come with it! I say 'summer'... it's pouring with rain as I write this and I'm slightly concerned I don't have wellies, a festival season faux pas.  I don't know about you but when I think of taking a...

Today team’s landed in Turin Italy, and Hannover, Germany. They're joining team's already in Geneva, Switzerland, Amsteram, Netherlands, Frankfurt, Germany and Venice, Italy. These are the final teams heading out on their #EscapeAndPray adventures! Our delayed Vienna team went to a baptism service by a river last night, only to realise there was more than one baptism service by the river! They are helping with a youth...

Today team’s landed in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Geneva, Switzerland. A further 12 teams are part way through their adventures. Our final two teams depart tomorrow! We heard from our first UK Escape and Pray team in Manchester, who were sent from the Netherlands – they visited Kings Church Manchester this morning. We’ve been hearing of the resoundingly warm welcome of churches receiving teams...

Today teams landed in: Bruges, Belgium Caen, France Cologne, Germany Copenhagen, Denmark Frankfurt, Germany Ghent, Brussels Hannover, Germany Krakow, Poland Malaga, Spain Nice, France Nuremberg, Germany Rotterdam, Netherlands Venice, Italy Wow, what a day! 134 students in 36 European cities! By the end of Escape & Pray, 333 students in 100 teams will have covered 75 cities in 25 countries, in prayer! After being hosted by local students, our team in Paris spent time praying for locals...