Morning

• Unite together as we pray during the morning prayer meetings. Don’t forget to eat breakfast and grab a drink before the morning session.
• Each morning and evening, we gather together in the Arena to worship, get equipped with great resources and be inspired by fantastic speakers.
• Before lunch, choose one of the Growing Deeper Tracks: digging deeper over three days into who our God is and what it means to follow Him in His mission.

Afternoon

• Enjoy lunch together with your CU. This is always a good opportunity to invite other CUs over, to hear from them, and to inspire one another with ideas. In the afternoon there are a range of workshops helping you think about CU excellence and also tackling prevalent issues you face.
• We have lots of Forum Fringe activities to make the most including The Mark Drama, crafts, and walks. You can also enjoy time to yourself to rest and reflect. Make the most of the picnic tables, a lake and acres of space on-site to pray, or head to the Forum cafe to refuel.
• Explore The Hub including exhibitor stands, the Forum café, and Forum Bookshop by 10ofthose. Come and visit the UCCF stand for fun competitions and ask us questions.

Evening

• Grab your food for the evening: whether that is cooking it yourself, collecting it with your meal pass, or having a delicious meal from one of the food vans.
• After the evening celebration in the Arena, there's lots of Forum Fringe activities to enjoy! From a silent disco to late night worship to boardgames, we have you covered.

Morning sessions: Niv Lobo

Niv is married to Lucy, and they have two very lovely and loud little girls. They live in Cambridge, where Niv is Senior Associate Minister at Christ Church. Niv loves being involved with students, having been a CU member at Cambridge, a CU staff worker in Southampton and Portsmouth, and also spoken regularly at CU events weeks. He’s thrilled to be back at Forum.

Monday evening: Sarah Elwood

Sarah Elwood co-leads the South East team for UCCF. Previously she was a staff worker in Oxford. She lives in East London with her husband Callum and daughter Lila. Sarah is a member of St Peter’s Barge, a church in Canary Wharf. When she’s not working, she loves exploring East London’s many foodie spots and knitting cardigans for her daughter.

Tuesday evening - Uncover launch - Graham Daniels

Dr Graham Daniels is a former professional footballer, now the General Director of Christians in Sport and a director of Cambridge United Football Club. He also holds positions at St Andrew the Great church and Ridley Hall Theological College in Cambridge. He is married to Michelle and has three children and five grandchildren.

Wednesday evening: Gerard Charles

Gerard is originally from Lancashire, and after a 10-year career in private forest management in Scotland, studied theology in Glasgow. With his wife Sarah and two children he then worked for 10 years church planting in East Asia.

He completed his PhD in Islamic identity at Durham in 2017, and currently works as OMF International’s North England Representative, based in Yorkshire. He teaches in several theological colleges, and regularly delivers training on cross-cultural ministry, world faiths and particularly enjoys helping Christians understand Islam and how to love our Muslim neighbours. He currently worships in the Elim church in Huddersfield.

Passionate supporter of the Red Rose and the Red-side of Manchester, he loves cricket, rugby and hill-walking.

Thursday evening: Eric Ortlund

Dr Eric Ortlund is an author and lecturer in Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at Oak Hill. He was born in California, grew up in Scotland, met his wife in Chicago, and lived in the Canadian prairies for ten years before God called him to Oak Hill. He enjoys poetry, Beethoven, martial arts, Gene Wolfe, long hikes, and weird movies.

Friday morning: Matt Lillicrap

Matt is the CEO of UCCF. Matt studied Medicine in Newcastle and qualified in 2006. Until 2013 he worked as a junior doctor around the North-East for seven years, alongside a stint as a staff worker for CMF. He spent four years studying theology for pastoral ministry at Oak Hill College in London, before heading up the M11 to Cambridge. He was Associate Pastor at Eden Baptist Church for four years heading up student ministry, and then pastor of Hope Community Church Cambridge before joining UCCF in 2024.
When not working Matt can often be found running, reading, watching movies, and spending as much time as possible doing fun things with his wife, six children and their (completely mad) Labrador.