‘For the first time, I have begun to understand Christianity.’
So said a student at a London university following an evening of Sixties’ style festival fun and a talk on ‘The God who Loves us’. She had joined hundreds of other students for one of the joint London Christian Unions’ (CU) city-wide events during their mission week in January. It was a week of creative and persuasive evangelism with lunchbars, Text-a-Toasties, question boards, free cafés, photo booths, questionnaires, Grill-a-Christian, Meals with a Message, art exhibitions, musical performances, testimonies and dramas.
100 events
This high-profile, focused week of evangelism has been replicated in universities across Britain over the past three months. Around 100 events weeks (or missions) have taken place involving even more Christian Unions. With daily lunchtime apologetic talks, evening Bible expositions and a constellation of other engaging events, these weeks remain a key way of reaching every student on campus with the gospel.
