Freshers Week 2011 Events
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Tuesday 20th September: ENGAGE 3.30pm at The Chaplaincy (building O2 on the campus map), Come and meet other students and find out what is CU is all about. Followed by FREE FOOD.
Wednesday 21th: Events organised by your Hall Group
Thursday 22nd September: More events organised by your Hall Group
Friday 23rd September: Free BBQ! 3-6pm at The Chaplaincy (building O2 on the campus map)
Tuesday 27th September: Football, 2pm. Meet outside Rios on the Vale at 2pm (Behind ‘The Hub’/Shackleton on the vale map) to head down to Bournbrook sports pitches (below building Y4 on the campus map) for football between 2:30 and 3:30.
Wednesday 28th September: Picnic on the Vale, 12:30pm. Meet outside Rios on the Vale (Behind ‘The Hub’/Shackleton on the vale map)
Thursday 29th September: CU “Central”, 7:30pm at The Chaplaincy (building O2 on the campus map). First main weekly CU meeting of the new term.
Saturday 1st October: “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”
Get to know a few CU members at a dinner party. Venues to be arranged at ENGAGE. Sign up HERE or email freshers@ubcu.org.uk if you’d like to be involved.
Keep checking on here for any updates and useful information about these events. If you want feel you need to know anything else about freshers week at UBCU then please contact Sophie Williamson.
Our normal weekly events start back the week beginning 26th September (Week 1), check out the every week page to find out more.
Hall groups
Check out the CU groups page for info on hall groups.
Internationals
Check out the internationals page for lots of information about the weekly events that UBCU put on especially for international students.
In freshers week, we are also putting on:
Wednesday 28th September: Culture Night!, 7-9pm at St Wulstan’s, Alton Road, B29 7DU, join us for a fun quiz night with a chance to meet new people and learn a bit about Christianity.
We will be having food from around the world so please bring some food from your country!
Weekly e-mail
To sign up for the weekly UBCU e-mail, click HERE.
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. Here is an online copy of the The Church Guide 2011. For version that you can print out and turn into a booklet, click HERE.
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 can be found on the local churches page.
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 Robbie White with your name, email address and mobile number.