Mar 14th 2011 -
On Saturday I moved a mountain. More specifically, four students from my church helped me move a 12 tonne mountain of top soil from the street into my next-door neighbour's back garden. Tim, Jack, James and Charlie turned up at 10am, bleary-eyed, and grafted for two hours. James dug up a spike (pictured) which he thinks is a Viking prong. It...
Mar 11th 2011 -
3 New Posts Over the next 3 weeks Fusion are recruiting for 3 new positions to start in September 2011 based in Loughborough and York. The positions Fusion are looking to fill are: Student Mission Developer Student Linkup Developer Graduate Jobs and Student Opportunities Developer If you would like to apply please contact Fusion's Operations Manager, Andy Norton to be sent an online application Pack. All applications...
Mar 9th 2011 -
Two churches and four student groups have got together for 3 days of loving the University of London. Larry Platner from Agape sent us through this update last night: "It is actually happening. Today was the first day of the loveYourUni with a number of events going on. Probably close to a thousand students were served in some way. All...
Mar 9th 2011 -
"A little while ago my daughter cut off her hair. She's 8 and her hair was thick, long and beautiful. " Hence begins 'the first act', a blog by Michael O'Neill posted today on the 40days.org.uk website. His blog is a rousing challenge to engage with Lent as a build up to the greatest act of generosity ever shown - the...
Mar 8th 2011 -
I am numb. Numb to those I pass on my way to work. Bodies covered in flimsy sleeping bags, heads resting on cardboard, slowly waking to the drum of London starting its day. I am numb to the advertising boards portraying air-brushed women in near naked poses. I am numb to the lyrics of songs blaring in shops, full of provocative expletives. Like...
Mar 4th 2011 -
The tide is turning across the UK. More churches than ever before are starting up student ministries. Rachel Magowan from St Stephen's Twickenham shares her top tips for starting out in student ministry: "Last September we had very few students at St Stephen's, but now have a flourishing student cell, with more and more students interested in finding out about Jesus. Here...
Mar 2nd 2011 -
Do seraphs have dirty feet? Did the coal hurt his mouth? Man he got over himself quickly! These were some of the thoughts that crossed my mind as I read God's commissioning of Isaiah this weekend. Upon seeing God in a vision Isaiah responds with: 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and...
