Blog: Students

Beth is a student who was invited to church by her course mate, Anna, one Sunday. That invite transformed her life forever as she chose to follow Jesus that day. I asked Beth a few questions about what the lead up to her accepting Jesus looked like as well as advice she would give to any other students who might be considering faith at the minute too!   1....

The word ‘uncertain’ has managed to become a key part of every final year students’ vocabulary in the last few weeks, and understandably so. With thousands of students’ university experiences coming to an abrupt end in recent weeks, finalists are leaving with more questions than answers. However, the recent turn of events did not come as a surprise to God, as...

A Southern bred church was hosting a student night. Not just any student night, but one they thought would be an epic party; a place for a bunch of students in Portsmouth to gather in, build community in, and find a home in before Freshers fully kicked off.    What they didn’t expect, was for it to be a bit of a...

What do you do when you’ve got boxes full of chocolate eggs and a lockdown preventing you from delivering them?  This is exactly what happened to students in Nottingham. After purchasing lots of Easter Eggs ahead of their Easter missional events, they were left with little place for them to go when the country was days from lockdown.  It is said that...

Emily is a second-year student at Lancaster University. I spoke to her recently about how she’s finding living with her family again, and she had an exciting story to share...   “My uni recently moved classes online, so I came back home to live with my family. A few days before I moved back, I was reflecting on my family culture and...

Where Are You? This is the first question God asked human beings (Adam and Eve). God was looking for them and was searching for them whilst they were hidden among the trees in the garden from him because they were afraid and ashamed. It's interesting, because it wasn’t God’s idea - they thought that if they hid, God wouldn’t search for...

After a rather strange and very unexpected Easter break, term 3 of your final year at university is finally here…. And am I right in saying it is not at all how you imagined? So many things look different. Instead of a few layed back weeks of strolling on and off campus to work and then an intense month of cramming in...