Blog: Students

“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...

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....

I think we can all agree that COVID-19 has changed a lot of things. Am I right? Even though this may be fact, one thing you can’t let it take hold of is your dreams and wants of celebrating your Graduation Day.    When I was a student, I can undoubtedly agree with 99% of the student population, that graduation was the...

Dear Class of 2020, Welcome to a new beginning, a new era and new opportunities. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day. It’s a new life. For me. And I’m feeling…… And that’s the problem, we aren’t sure how we are feeling about the ‘new’ when the ‘old’ was serving so many so well, it was enjoyable, purposeful and yet it...

I arrived at the University of East Anglia for my first year of university way back in 2015. I had a horrific mop of hair, a head full of dreams, and a willingness to meet the kind of people I’d never before seen back home in Chesterfield.  I was so blessed to find those people quickly. Even more amazingly, there were some...