CU students welcome newbies

Up, down and across the country, university students have been welcoming fresh faces to campuses, with the Christian Unions (CUs) seizing what has been coined as “Welcome Week” to invite young adults to CU and church.

Elly Lane is Co-President at the University of Manchester (UoM) CU and told en: “We were out on the street every single day doing evangelism, with fun and interesting activities and did some worship in the street joint with some local churches. Someone even gave their life to the Lord while one of our members was telling them about God one of the afternoons – praise God! We saw a high intake of freshers who are all very keen to get stuck into CU, as well as meeting many other people in different years who were also interested in being part of the Christian Union.

“We started each day with prayer and had some wonderful evening events: an international food event, a grub crawl, and a ceilidh. And to end off the week on the Friday, we joined with the other Manchester Christian Unions (The University of Salford; The Royal Northern College of Music; Manchester Metropolitan University) in a big joint worship night which over 200 people came to. It was so beautiful to hear about how God has been working at the other universities, and to praise God for all that He did during Freshers’ [Welcome] Week!”