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a student came and said to me 'thank you for helping me to get back to the bible to read its made a huge difference in my life'
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Give thanks to God for those that have come to faith so far this term in the patch about 15 of them and pray that God will help them to stand . pray for more salvation in our schools. pray for...
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Odeh Akatu (6th Oct)North East
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Hull CU put on a Freshers BBQ event. Despite pouring rain, a number of students turned up, quite a few of whom weren't Christians but had received a flyer from a friendly face!
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Thank God for contact with a good number of freshers at Hallam, Hull and Sheffield Universities, and please pray that many of those first years find CU a place where they are welcomed and feel...
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Tim Dennis (6th Oct)North West
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It would be great to pray that the first year students who have signed up to CUs across the patch would continue to be involved and catch the vision for speaking and living for Christ. It would...
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The first study session for small group leaders in Liverpool went really well. Many came into the study feeling exhausted from Freshers' Week activities, but after studying Acts chapter 1, left...
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Matt Waldock (6th Oct)South West
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Give thanks for the recent IFES evangelists conference in Austria, for a gathering of current and future evangelists committed to bringing the gospel to students. Give thanks for the example and...
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Please pray for the upcoming Bath/Falmouth and Plymouth small group leaders weekend. Pray for teaching from Mark's gospel to equip them for every good work as they begin to lead small groups that...
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Please pray for Bath Spa University as they start up a Globe Cafe for Internationals. Please pray it would be well supported by the CU, and that God would use it to give the CU opportunities to...
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I turned up to Bath Spa CU's first ever Globe Cafe, which had only be advertised for 2 days, to find some hot drinks and 2 packets of biscuits. I quietly prayed that God would make it a great...
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Dave Bish (6th Oct)
Hannah Cordle (6th Oct)North West
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At Forum '08 John Piper asked those who are considering overseas ministry to stand up so he could pray for them. It was incredibly moving to see hundreds of students standing up to this call. I...
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Please pray for a seekers Bible study at the Newton Rigg campus of The University of Cumbria. It will be going through Mark's gospel weekly and starts 8th of October.
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Adam Beattie (4th Oct)East Central
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Praise God for a great freshers week at Brunel. The CU worked incredibly hard (and especially the President and VP). Afternoons giving out drinks, evening events, and late night giving out coffee...
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The OICCU is planing a busy freshers week, with each college group seeking to welcome and reach out to freshers. The OICCU and Agape have worked together to produce a DVD wth testimonies from...
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Joshua Monteiro (3rd Oct)London
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The CU at UCL ran out of chairs at their prayer meeting this week. In the past only a handful of students came to prayer meetings so they were thrilled that 35 students, including a number of...
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Please pray for the FREE planning day on 11th October. Pray that the planning committee would work well together to find ways to creatively and passionately make the Gospel known at UCL.
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Natasha Kasprowicz (3rd Oct)Midlands
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Two years ago the CU at Birmingham City University (then the University of Central England) had 40 people sign up at the university 'Freshers Fayre' for more information about the CU. This year...
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Please pray for FREEFORM - a group that I'm starting in Birmingham to help students engage creatively with Mark's Gospel. The aim is to prepare people for the FREE Gospel Project and my hope is...
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As we chatted before the "Grill a Christian" event in freshers' week, a Christian fresher asked me, "What do Muslims believe?" I was slightly surprised that someone from the UK...
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As many students from Walsall campus joined the Wolverhampton Uni CU, they're being encouraged to meet for Bible study and prayer on Walsall campus, as a witnessing community there - while still...
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Jonathan Bennett (3rd Oct)
Rosemary Grier (3rd Oct)North West
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Students at the Royal Northern College of Music hosted 2 lunchtime events, offering free lunch and a talk on questions of how can a good God allow suffering and whether science has disproved God....
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Please pray for Manchester Christian Unions as they continue to plan for spring mission fortnight. Pray for clear vision and good organisation, they still need to find speakers for the first week,...
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Rachel Bass (3rd Oct)Wales
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Heard this week of one of the new converts form last years mission, hadopportunity to share the gospel with one of his athist housemates, in his frustration at not being able to do a good job and...
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Cardiff CU had an incredible start to term with over 230 students attending their first meeting, majority of those being freshers. Please pray this multitude find and establish them selves in...
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Steve Hadley (3rd Oct)East Central
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Please pray that many Christian Freshers would find the CU. Pray that my talk on "What is a CU?" might encourage many of them to get stuck in to the CU. Pray that they would get behind...
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UEA CU had a great start with the year. Around 160 people came to their big main meeting on "What is a CU?".
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Jonathan Carter (2nd Oct)Midlands
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The joy of facebook is that you can see what people really think! And that was particularly exciting post-Forum as I read students comments having been in mud drenched Shropshire for the week. It...
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Please pray for Leicester CU small groups. Please pray that they will be re-energised with a simple focus on God's word and praying for their non Christian friends in hall.
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Loughborough CU have made a great start to their year welcoming their freshers with a host of exciting and varied events. So far they have met at least 30 freshers who seem to want to get involved....
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Please pray for the establishment of small groups at Derby CU and Loughborough CU after quite a while without them. Pray that these groups would love the Word and would be excited about studying...
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Linda Marshall (2nd Oct)
Katie Taylor (2nd Oct)Wales
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During International Welcome Week in Cardiff, Betsi the new Relay Worker was helping to move international students into their accommodation. During this time she met another student who needed...
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Please pray for the UCCF team in Wales during the week27-31st October. During that week we are going to visit all the CUs and try to help the Freshers to catch the vision for evangelism on campus....
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Alison Williams (2nd Oct)London
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Royal Holloway had their first fresher's week meeting right at the beginning of their fresher's week and attracted around 50 students, many of which were new first years. Their two lunch bars were...
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Oct 2nd - Kingston CU have their first 'welcome meeting' at 18:30 Oct 15th - St Mary's are hosting a pray for FREE event. Oct 27th - West London student worker's lunch
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The KCL Christian Union ran a prominent stall serving tea, coffee & biscuits right in front of the Strand campus enrolment hall over Freshers week. We've been doing it for several years now,...
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Please pray for the evangelistic bible studies (using resources from the Free gospel project) being run in Kings College CU and SOAS CU every Thu for the first 4 weeks of term (starting 2 Oct)....
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St Georges Freshers Fornight is the first 2 weeks of October. Pray that Christian Freshers will find the CU and catch its vision and pray for the evangelistic opportunities at the start of a new...
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Andy Taylor (1st Oct)
Kah Foon Lye (1st Oct)
Beko Moll (1st Oct)National Staff
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It was great to be able to play some music and speak at a Lunch bar at Queen Margaret Uni Edinburgh. The lunch bar was happening next to a room where there was a class being held. Not only did the...
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Please pray for the "Go" event in Scotland on October 4th - I am leading praise and giving 2 seminars. Pray for work on a new podcast. Please continue to pray I will increase and...
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North East
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Being at Forum this year was awesome as usual. But there was an added twist which could have put a dampener on things (excuse the pun) but actually showed the gospel in action. It RAINED!!!! A...
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Matt Oliver (1st Oct)North West
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Please pray for two upcoming meetings in October. Firstly, on October 18th, CU leaders from across Lancashire will be in Lancaster for a training day. We'll be thinking about appointment of new...
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Lancaster University CU found it impossible to book a suitable room on campus during Freshers' Week. Eventually, they bought a marquee on eBay to host a cafe. Result: loads more people making...
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Peter Dray (1st Oct)Scotland
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Preaching the gospel at Glasgow and Dundee unis during Freshers weeks was exciting and encouraging. At each I talked with a young man afterwards who had tough and deep questions. One commented,...
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Asking the right questions! – Abertay CU At Abertay’s first CU meeting, a local minsters was teaching about common grace. In a very clear way he explained how God reveals Himself and shows His...
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Freshers going on a Church Crawl Freshers from Dundee, Abertay and St Andrews CUs are going around visiting various churches in town Sunday after Sunday. As we partner with local churches, the CU...
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Doing lots of teaching on the gospel, evangelism, and vision this month so please pray this will deeply impact students lives and be the one true motivation for all CU activity. Thanks!
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Daniel Peterson (1st Oct)
Arlington Barron (1st Oct)South West
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With so many new Christian 'first years', living side by side with so many other first year students who have never heard the Gospel, the opportunities for mission are huge... as are the...
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Exeter University's welcome week kicked off last weekend [Sunday 28th September]. Convoys of heavy-laden cars unloaded suitcases, sparkly-eyed students, and sad-smiling parents saying goodbye....
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Alex Banfield-Hicks (1st Oct)Wales
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One of the highlights of freshers week was a bbq and grill a christian in Swansea University. After a few difficulties with where to hold it etc the CU eventually got to det up in the open right in...
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Please pray for Swansea University's application to become and official SU society. At the moment we're unable to book rooms on campus and so have to meet off site. Pray for wisdom and...
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Heledd Job (1st Oct)East Central
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Brookes CU arranged a unique contribution to the Freshers' Fair this year: they arranged a nice rug, some inflatable sofas, a lampstand and even a front door (!) to recreate the feel of a living...
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Please pray for all first year students, especially those who are already Christians. Pray that the CU would be good in meeting them, and great at welcoming them in. Pray that their faith would...
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London
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Fresher’s week. Pray that this is fruitful in bringing people along to CUs and in spreading the gospel. Pray that my preparation for the new ‘Connect’ groups for CU leaders will go well. I...
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During the SOAS freshers fayre, about 8 students approached the CU stall because of the FREE gospels. They love the design!
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CUs from across London will meet at Christ Church Spitalfields on Wednesday 15 Oct from 4-6pm to pray for FREE.
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As Lois (the CU President) and I arrived at Wimbledon Art College on the first enrolment day, we started to look for a table for our stall, which would house tea and coffee and biscuits to draw in...
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Luci Metcalfe (30th Sep)
Brian Weaver (30th Sep)North West
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University of Manchester C.U. - Please pray that a large number of students attend the house party. It will be held on 17-19 October. It will be devoted to training the students in evangelism and...
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I recently spent a day at the Freshers' Fayre at the University of Cumbria - Ambleside campus. It was great to see the CU members taking it in turns to man the CU stall so that they could also man...
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Please pray for a number of CUs in the North West of England which have chosen to undertake some really practical and firmly rooted evangelism training during their main meetings or house parties....
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I had the privilege of meeting with a student who went on one of the summer teams to a foreign country. He is on one student-leaders I work with. His time in a foreign country gave him an...
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University of Manchester C.U. - Please pray for the upcoming house party (17-19 Oct.). They will receive training for the upcoming gospel distribution. Pray for biblical convictions in...
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I took a tour of an area of the University of Manchester called "North Campus". It was once UMIST, so it's quite separate from the rest of the university. When I saw it, I was convinced...
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Zac Wyse (30th Sep)
Ruth Port (30th Sep)Scotland
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So many to choose from but I think one of the highlights this month was at FORUM. In the ARTS TRACK, the three arts seminars were well attended but specifically by a group of people who were hungry...
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David McCulloch (30th Sep)Wales
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Meeting supporters this month has been brilliant! I was invited to attend a 50 year CU reunion at Bangor University. It was a privilege to meet faithful men and women who were involved in the...
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Pray for the Freshers who the CUs in Bangor and Wrexham made contact with. We were hoping for significant numbers and God has provided! Pray that these Christians would make a stand for the gospel...
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Mike Chalmers (30th Sep)South East
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The CU at Chichester have had a big intake of freshers, which has basically doubled the size of the CU. Please thank God for these freshers and pray that they may get stuck into the work of the CU...
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I was doing a basic gospel talk at Chichester CU's freshers meeting. After the meeting one of the exec's non-Christian friends who was there, asked her to pray for her. Although she did not make a...
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Ben Martin (25th Sep)South West
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Please pray that the new Relay Workers in Bristol (Tim and Jen) would quickly settle into life in Bristol and make one or two good friends this month.
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Jim Walford (18th Sep)Midlands
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Squelching through ankle-deep mud into the big top was perhaps not what many student CU leaders expected in their training, learning and worshipping experience at Forum. But as John Piper...
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Freshers flood into Wolverhampton Uni on 15th September, but one of the 2 CU leaders isn't returning to university. Please pray for the remaining leader shouldering the workload in his final year,...
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South East
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Fantastic to hear about one of the CU members Dan being so excited about the gospel and having such a heart for international students in Bournemouth that he noticed an international looking...
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Please pray for Southampton, Bournemouth, Bournemouth Arts and Solent Uni CUs that they would make the most of freshers weeks and seek not only to get Christians involved in the CUs but reach out...
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David Anthony (17th Sep)Wales
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Please pray for all the freshers coming up to university in the next few weeks. Pray that the CUs would welcome and love them, that non-Christians coming would have an opportunity to hear the...
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The highlight of this month for me was being at the first relay conference of the year. It was a real joy to be reminded again of the amazingness of the gospel and to see relay workers have a fresh...
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Scotland
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Dundee University CU students have been helping Freshers move into their halls and flats, carrying bags and boxes for struggling parents. For health and safety reasons, students from the Students'...
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Mark Ellis (15th Sep)South West
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All hands on deck for the ECU during Freshers Week. Lots and lots of things to pray for, but in particular we'd appreciate prayer for the four evangelistic lunchbars in one of the central Campus...
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Scotland
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Have been encouraged by the enthusiasm of a 2nd year student who worked in the kitchens on an OM ship during a gap year and is now beginning and international cafe on her campus!
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Jill Gibson (12th Sep)Wales
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It's been my major prayer point for a while, but I'd like the focus to remain on Lampeter. Please continue to pray that there will be new students in Freshers' Week in early October. 2/3...
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I thoroughly enjoyed meeting with the new staff workers in their Orientation conference in August. It was exciting to meet with people who are excited about working with students and passionate...
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Please pray for Betsi who has joined the Welsh team this year. She is from Spain, and has joined Relay so that she can learn more about student work, before she begins work with the GBU in...
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Outreach at the youth tent site in the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff. It's had a salting effect over the years, being a refuge for the festival goers, and there have been opportunities to...
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Steffan Jones (11th Sep)National Staff
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Please pray for the continuing work on the Evangelism training course for Mike Reeves, Jo Mckenzie and myself. Pray that I will continue to grow stronger in health and for boldness to go out and...
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It has been great to be working on some resources the Evangelism Training course and a new CD. Seeing these come together have been a real blessing. Seeing some students engage with the materials...
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North East
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It was really exciting to be at Forum, seeing so many students coming together to Prasie God and learn from His word. It was really exciting to see the Free gospel project being launched, and so...
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Tom Thrower (10th Sep)London
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The leaders of SOAS CU weren't particularly keen on camping, but they nonetheless accepted the challenge in order to attend Forum this year. As SOAS hasn't been represented at Forum for the last...
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Please pray for CU outreach activities at Freshers Week (15-20 Sep). The CU will be running a coffee/tea stall outside the college, and publicising CU & evangelistic events that week. They...
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Midlands
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pray for God's help this term Grace to do His will God's power over our campuses success of free project cu members to get stuck in with the gospel advancement/prayers God's favour with the...
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meeting with a staff and seeing the passion he has for the work
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North East
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Please pray for a great group of new first years to get involved with Hull CU.
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It was really exciting to see students from Sheffield, Hallam and Hull engaging with God's word and being inspired at our recent Forum conference. Despite pretty rubbish weather, it was a great week.
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North West
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Forum was rather wet and muddy this year, no doubt there are many photographs in circulation proving the point! On the Wednesday about 90 campers were flooded out including a number whose bedding...
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We are hoping to plant three new CUs in the North West Region this year. Please do pray for us to find Christian students amongst the freshers and returning students who will get behind the vision...
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South West
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Pray for CUs to make the most of FREE having gotten their first copies of it at Forum. Pray for the teaching that week to translate into increasingly effective mission teams. Pray that we'd make...
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Give thanks for new team members in the South West. For Hannah our new CUSW for Bath, and for Becs, Alex, Steve, Cat, Matt, Tim and Jen joining us on Relay.
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London
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Telling supporters in America about our life and ministry in London was a good lesson how valuable it is to put student ministry in the context of life: we live in a neighbourhood, are part of a...
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Wales
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It's been exciting over the August to hear of and meet individuals who having got their A-levels can't wait to come to Uni and join the CU on the mission field!
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Please pray for Forum as 700 students come together for training and teaching. Pray that as the students would return mobilized for mission.
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North East
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Praise God for the new staff who have begun their roles as Staff Workers around the country.
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It was great to spend time with the new staff workers at their orientation week
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South East
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Please pray that the new Relay workers have a fantastic time learning of God's grace at Relay 1. Please also pray especially for Holly who has just got married and will be separated from Steve for...
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South West
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Please pray for new students going off to University for the first time. Pray that they would settle in a church quickly and make the most of CU. Pray that God would guide and guard them in this...
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I was manning the UCCF stand at Soul Survivor and was very encouraged to meet so many ex-students who came up to me and encouraged me about the work of UCCF. Many said that their time at CU was...
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North West
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Please pray that students persevere in their faith during the summer months
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Please pray for me as I prepare Bible studies on the book of Hebrews. I am preparing it for the Relay workers I am supervising in the hope that it encourages them to recognize the supremacy of...
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It was great to meet with a young lady that was preparing a summer house-party seminar on "Jesus Christ in the Old Testament". She repeatedly made statements about how exciting it was...
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South West
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I was pleasantly surprised to hear from an international student I had shared the gospel with in my first year. She has been considering the gospel over the couple of years and has decided to make...
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Please pray that the Bath Spa CU committee will be able to get to the FORUM safely and catch the vision of CU for the year ahead. Pray that they will have a passion for the gospel. Pray that they...
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North East
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Pray for students over the summer who have repsonsibilities to organise freshers weeks and speakers for next term. Pray they would be able to get in touch with the people they need to and get...
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Lewis Green (13th Aug)London
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Praise God for the students who have agreed to be cell group leaders next year. Do pray for them, and for Emma, who is the cell group leader co-ordinator, that God will prepare them to lead...
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The CU at Middlesex Hendon has been lively and active. Last year, they met several times a week for prayer meetings, once a week to study the Word together, and organised large evangelistic...
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Midlands
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'am praying for you everyday' said an elderly supporter
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pray for the students for God's grace pray for forum that it will be a life transforming encounter for all that will be there pray for success of freshers week( salvation for the usaved and a...
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Wales
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Its been a great month for reflecting and reviewing the last year. As a team in Wales we are really encouraged by God's work in the CUs and in our lives. Steve and Mike have had a very good first...
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Please pray for the various camps and teams going on around Wales this month. Pray that many students and young people would respond to the good news about Jesus - especially during the Eisteddfod...