Hall groups
Check out the CU groups page for info on hall groups.
Top Tips for going to Uni
FRESH
FRESH is a book that provides five weeks of daily inspirations for new students covering everything from writing essays to writing home, from making friends to making the grade, from debt to dating. It offers a challenging introduction to maintaining a strong personal Christian faith but keeps its main emphasis on discovering how Christian students can make the most of their faith, relationships and studies. Visit freshspace.org for more info.
At the beginning of the year we will have copies on sale at our main weekly meeting Central available at only £4 (RRP £7).
Quoted below is the first paragraph of a review of FRESH by Ben Parker of Browning Avenue Baptist Church:
I think that ‘fresh’ is a brilliant book. It helpfully addresses many of the issues which will face Christians going to university. Although the target audience is clearly those who have just begun university (freshers) it could also be a great help to people at any stage of university or those who have contact with people going away. This book will help you be more aware of the challenges and opportunities which occur in 21st century British universities. The book splits itself into 5 sections with 7 subsections in each. The idea is that a fresher reads 1 subsection a day for the first 5 weeks of university.
Church search
While every Christian student is part of the global church of Jesus Christ, the CU is not a local congregation. We don’t do marriages, baptisms, communion, or carry out church discipline.
We believe it is more important that you join a local church than the CU, as the CU is a mission team sent out from the church to make disciples on campus. We’d love you to join both a local church and the CU, but if you only have time for one of the two, please choose church.
To help you find the local churches and settle in one, we compile a Church Guide booklet each year. You will be able to pick up this year’s hard copy at CU events and meetings in the first few weeks of term. In the meantime you can have a look at last year’s edition: Church Guide 2008.
To help you get to church, we have assigned CU members from some of the most popular local student churches to be church reps. These are the people you can talk to about the church and ask about how to get to the churches. Contact details for the church reps will be put on this page when they are available.
1-to-1s
1-to-1s is a scheme that links Freshers up with same-sex second, third or fourth year students in the Christian Union, with the aim of helping Freshers settle in to uni life, a local church and the CU. You’ll meet up regularly to chat, study the Bible and pray. 1-to-1s are very flexible and you won’t be put under pressure to do anything you don’t want to – meeting just to have a chat is perfectly fine.
We love to link people up, so if you’re interested, please email Katie Stileman with your name, email address and mobile number.