Revealed: untold story of students in Covid

Milla Ling  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Jan 2021
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Revealed: untold story of students in Covid

St George's CU members preparing gifts to give to freshers

Many of us are aware of the difficulties that students have faced this year; Covid outbreaks on campus, intense loneliness and even protests against extreme restrictions – it is becoming a sadly familiar story. But underneath and alongside this, runs another, lesser-known story of the innovation and passion shown by the Christian Unions.

Faced with a tough and completely different context, the CUs courageously rose to the challenge and tried exciting new ways of sharing the hope of Jesus within the universities.

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With many universities running 100% of their teaching online, and the novelty of Zoom wearing thin, it quickly became a challenge to make Jesus known virtually – but rather than dampening the CUs’ mission, this simply yielded fresh ideas.

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