Yesterday, I spent a large part of the day with students from both Universities in Sheffield. It was great to see them back and reminded me of the immense value of student work.
The morning was spent at the Uni activities fair meeting freshers and helping them sign up for Christians in Sport and the CU, the new influx of freshers is vital for the life of the cu and is exciting to think how they will change and grow as they proclaim the good news of Jesus on campus for the next three years.
Lunch was helping with hot potatoes, which is a lunch bar that the CU put on letting people find out and question the Christian gospel. The room was packed out and people were queing out the door. I used to be the Evangelsim Sec at Sheffield Uni and hot pots was my baby, so it was really great to see it going onj so well. Toddy spoke on Acts 17 and people’s ignorance about God.
Then in the evening I went over to Sheffield Hallam CU with the vicar from fulwood, Paul Willaims.He spoke from Mark 2v13-17 on ‘Why did Jesus Come’ which is a talk from Christianty Explored. Paul really can preach the gospel and makes you feel as though Jesus is really the only answer to the problem of the human heart. Traditionally hallam has always been a smaller CU and because it has no central meeting place they have found evangelism more difficult but they have had about 40 freshers sign up and the president Ben spoke of the desire to reach the whole University for Jesus.
So, basically student work is brilliant, seeing studnets passionate about following Jesus, welcoming newbies and proclaiming Jesus to a campus who desperately needs him.
J
