Blog: Your Try Church Toolkit

Last week we joined a load of other organisations at a freshers fair but instead of giving away the normal freebies we decided to extend the invitation to Try Church.  During the course of the day, we had lots of conversations with students but there was one topic which kept cropping up. Loneliness. One student we spoke to told us how...

Can you join us in praying for students? This isn’t just a response to COVID, this a response to a generation of students that don't yet know the hope of Jesus. Universities and campuses aren’t closed and our prayers have a powerful impact. We believe this is for all of us, not just for students. Can you and your small group join in with...

As September approaches, students will begin an academic year like no other as the Coronavirus pandemic impacts universities. But God is still moving and working, students are searching for hope and purpose, and we can meet this moment in prayer. That is why prayer walking on campuses can be so powerful. But why is this something worth pushing into?  God made...

Will you take a step of faith and prayer walk your campus? Can we see every University campus prayer walked this Autumn term? ’I am giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on.” Joshua 1:3 We want to see the UK's universities covered in prayer as we head into this new era of student mission. We read in...

Try church, an invitation for every student to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church.  We have been working with churches, inviting students to try church for years now, but what does it look like in the wake of a pandemic? How do we continue to extend the invitation to try church when we are speaking into a...

Prayer works.  It’s a vulnerable thing to lay our needs before God in prayer and believe he will meet them. It’s a case of trust, faith that he is a good father, that he wants to hear our prayers and answer them.  Crafted, short prayers can be specific and repeatable. Jesus warns us against using clever words and waffling on in prayer to...

Nurses, doctors, delivery drivers and other front line workers have all received recognition during this COVID-19 period. They’ve been thanked for their service and hard work in such a difficult season. As September and a new university academic year looms, students, families and loved ones are now turning their focus to the leadership, chancellors and vice chancellors of universities for...