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Letter

Premier Magazine

By Jude Daniel From “strongly worded letter” to mission partnership. 9 months ago, one of our staff started a conversation with Premier* through a strongly worded letter. It addressed an article that dismissed short term missions. Instead of ending the conversation there, we proposed writing an article countering this narrative. Over a series of conversations, this escalated until Premier invited

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Indian couple

Marriage in India

By Emma Parkin Together is FamilyLife’s marriage discipleship resource. We think it’s brilliant and we love hearing about Together groups being run by churches, friends and people completely unrelated to us! Why do we get excited by this?    Let me introduce you to Roy and Anu.   Roy and Anu have been married for 17 years and live in Mumbai, India. 

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Tell Your Story

Living & Telling Taster Session Have a go at thinking through your own faith journey and learn how to tell your story through this Living & Telling taster session. Watch at agape.org.uk/your-story Your Story People are fascinated by other people’s stories, especially when they are well told. One of the things that draws us in is the incredible changes people

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Living & Telling Course Transforming Lives

By Isaac McNish Read how Living & Telling transformed the way one student felt about talking to his friends (& even strangers!) about his faith. Talking About Faith I first did Living & Telling whilst I was studying at university, and it changed my understanding of what it means to share my faith. I discovered that talking to friends about Jesus

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Biscuit Trail Faith Conversation

By Alan Holdsworth Hear what happened when the Biscuit Trail prompted one man to say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know your name…” The Biscuit Trail is designed to help Christians think through what they could do (or are already doing) to help others discover Jesus for the first time. It helps to encourage us in our next steps with talking

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Discovering more about Jesus… in Malta!

By Sean Wood ‘I never really thought about why I believe in God; I just knew that following God is the best way. Josh, a student in London, joined the Agapé Students Global Project to Malta during the Easter holidays. It was only a short visit – just one week – but the team got to meet and work alongside

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Discovering answers to the biggest questions about Jesus

By Sean Wood What’s the biggest question that you have about Jesus (or that you’d like to ask to Him)? Back in October 2022, this is the question that we asked to 600 students at universities across the UK. From their responses the Discover Jesus campaign was born! We really hope that you had a chance to hear about the campaign

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What’s Your Purpose?

By Beth Woods Instagram campaigns, Hub in the Pub, and deep conversations were the ingredients for a fun filled first term for students at Birmingham City University. Beth Woods, the current student leader of the Agapé UK movement at BCU shared some of her highlights… We had a great time at freshers fair! Meeting new students and chatting to them

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God at work: Parenting

By Lynn Marriott My working life has included being a PA, working in law and running my own business amongst other roles. However, I think my toughest job is definitely being a mum. It is relentless, there are no days off and I feel there are times when I am just a machine and not valued as a person. When

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God at work in The Arts: God & Mammon in the Creative Industries

God at work: The Arts God and Mammon in the Creative Industries By Chris Donald There’s a constant tension working in the creative industries, a clash of ideologies; but it’s not quite the one that my church tradition often thought. To my mind, it’s the battleground of the “two masters” Jesus mentioned: God and money. It already exists in the

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