Return of Campus Breakout

Following the hiatus over the Christmas period, Campus Breakout is back with a bang this coming Wednesday.

We’re so excited for what the Lord wants to do over the next term, and think our times on Wednesday afternoons are going to be a really important part of that.

Here’s the schedule for this term:

Note well! The two Friday Night Treasure Hunts.
We’re going to be running a training session with the students from Christ Central on these Fridays, before heading out on a Treasure Hunt…it would be great if you could join us for either part!

Campus Breakout

Campus Breakout is a massive part of the student work at our church, one that hopefully you’re all au fait with now. It has been such a privilege to see God starting to move powerfully through these times and we’re expectant for more. The last couple of weeks especially have been so exciting and we wanted to make sure you all get the chance to hear about them. We want you guys to know, too, that Breakout isn’t just for a certain group of people, it’s for everyone – each and every one of us can be used be God! We all come with exactly the same credentials – inadequate beings who, by grace, have been given the keys to the kingdom of God! So have a read, and be inspired to joini us one afternoon if you can…

Treasure Hunting

On Wednesday this week we went out Treasure Hunting. It felt like a little while since the last one, but, as ever, God showed up massively and did some cool stuff. Here’s but a taster:
“…When we caught up to him, we asked him what had happened and he explained to us that he’s hurt his ankle and that, despite being on a load of painkillers, his ankle still hurt and it felt like a 3/10. We showed him our maps and we had headphones, pain in foot and his name, Steven. He was a bit freaked out, but let us pray for him….“

You can read the whole story right here.

‘Buckets of Love’

The Wednesday prior to this we went round campus and simply gave out some encouraging notes, sharing God’s heart with people. This idea is so simple, but its amazing just how God can move through it…
“…Then as we got close to Kro, we saw a guy on crutches (fair game). Naturally, I used the bucket as an in and casually asked if I could pray for his knee, which he’d just had surgery on. He said it was at a 5/10. After the first time, it went down to a 3/10. Prayed again and it went down to a 0. The pain was fully gone and full flex was nearly restored to his knee. He felt a slight twinge when he tried to bend it fully, but the pain was gone!…“.

Again, you can read the whole story over right here, on the testimony section of the prayer blog.

It’s so important to celebrate as a family what God is doing in our city, to thank him, and to ask him for more! Hopefully these stories will build your faith as well, and encourage you to come along and get involved. Honestly, all God asks of us is that we are available – he does the rest! So why not come join us this Wednesday, or any other during the rest of term?…

 

Catch-up

Hello again from the Vinelife Student Blog! Sorry it’s been a quiet few weeks on here recently – hopefully you’ve all been enjoying scouring through the backlog of articles and recommendations. If you haven’t, you really should – there’s some great stuff to access.

We’ve had a really exciting start to the term student-wise. Campus Breakouts (every Wednesday, 2pm) have been a lot of fun. Just last week we went out and did “Buckets of Love”, where we simply shared encouraging words from God with people, and the Lord was up to some cool stuff. Even before we went out, a guy approached us in KroBar and we ended up chatting with him for ages; encouraging him in his current struggles, praying for him, and sharing God’s truth about his life with him. It was awesome to see just how much the Holy Spirit was obviously impacting him – and especially awesome considering he found us… it’s a lot easier that way! Then when we out and about, we saw a number of people get healed including one guy whose knee got completely better. Awesome.

We had our Student Alpha Launch last week as well – Week One, “Who is Jesus?” is happening this week at 7.30pm in Happiness Café. It’s not too late to invite your friends, so get on that!

Finally, RSS (Reach Saturday Studies) started back with a bang this past weekend. RSS is our fortnightly time to get together and delve deeper into God’s word. It’s led by Chris Foster, a PhD student from Nazarene Theological College, and is just generally fantastic. Every other Saturday (next one is 30th October), 10am, Manchester Academy. Well worth a couple of hours of your time!

In the mean time, I’m just about to release something very exciting into cyberspace: Staff Intern Jess Felstead’s first post on the Student Blog. Stay tuned, it’ll be here this afternoon!