Blog: Students

A day of dreaming, story-telling and sharing vision; Issy tells the story of her trip to our first Fusion France gathering in January! Naomi, Steph and I visited Lyon to attend a conference with student workers from churches across France, to share with each other our vision of student churches. The day was headed up by Fusion, who have recently felt God...

Last weekend at the Manchester Learning Communities, church leaders and student workers chatted about where students are leading and influencing. It was so exciting to hear about so many students influencing not only in church but all over the place!! Where are you influencing?  The 7 Spheres (or mountains) was a vision given by God to Loren Cunningham (YWAM Founder), Bill Bright...

A couple of weeks ago I attended a conference with the title “Dangerous Dreamers”. It was the National Leaders Vineyard Conference with just under 2000 leaders from across the UK. I heard the stories of many normal people, like you and me, who have gone and done seriously dangerous things because God gave them a dream; a dangerous dream. Things like: Moving to...

I asked a group of people including church leaders, post grads, and some of my own uni mates this question… If you could have your time again in uni, what would you do? What advice would you give yourself?  This is what they'd say to their younger selves... Be confident in your faith, not embarrassed by it. You have something amazing to offer...

I remember chatting with a teenager in my church about fasting. He said "Christians don't fast, that's for other religions." Maybe that's your view? Fasting is often seen as pious and irrelevant to our gospel of grace. At worst legalism and a distraction to the mission. Lent starts this Wednesday 10th with TheFastUK initiative encouraging us to fast. My question is "Can a new generation...

Hi, I’m Grace, and I’m a mermaid. … Okay, I’m clearly not, but recently a member of my church had a picture of me as a mermaid, able to communicate with people of the land and the sea. As a Modern Languages graduate, this picture was significant, because it was God showing me the wealth of people that I had the...

Men tend to like looking at people’s private parts. Women tend to like looking at people’s private lives. In fact lots of us find both quite interesting! And both are types of porn. A gawping at what we shouldn’t really have our eyes on. A voyeurism of one kind or another. But social porn is not talked about much so here...