An estimated 12,000 students attended Christian Union carol services in 2012, the biggest of which drew over 3,000 attendees.
Associate Christian Union Staff Worker Michael Ots was the speaker at Durham Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (DICCU) carol service. He commented: ‘It was awesome to see over 3,000 people packing every corner of the cathedral to hear about Jesus. It’s not unusual for [carol service] attendance to be at least four times that of the CU. In Durham it was ten times! Student carol services are probably the most effective events of the whole year at getting not yet Christians to hear the gospel’.
God at work
Exeter Christian Union also hosted around 3,000 people. Speaking of the large numbers that attended, Christian Union Staff Worker Tom Murray commented: ‘That works out at roughly 2.5% of the population of Exeter all hearing the good news of Jesus in one evening, which is just phenomenal’. The CU President, Toby Ling, reported: ‘All of our free Uncover Gospels of Luke were given away at the end, evidence that God had been at work in people’s hearts that evening’.
