Once For All The 2004 National Students' Conference is fast approaching. The title is 'Once for All', looking at the person and work of Jesus in the book of Hebrews, and dates are 13-15 February. Nigel Lee, former head of student ministries at UCCF, will give the Bible addresses. Marjory...
In April Fiona Pinto and Joseph Biddulph, two pro-life candidates standing for election to the Welsh National Assembly, were arrested and charged with a public order offence after displaying a poster of a 21-week aborted fetus. At trial in September the arresting officer reported that, 'The general public demanded the...
Student Staff News We are particularly encouraged by the appointments of our three new CMF relay workers: Richard Knox (West Midlands), Peter Fee (Scotland) and Laurence Crutchlow (London). Our regional staffworkers Becky Brain (South West), Chris Downing (South), Lorna Nunn (Scotland) and Kerry Waterfield (North East) will all continue their excellent work...
CMF student membership currently stands at just over 1,000. New medical schools have recently opened in Norwich, Keele and Exeter/Plymouth (Peninsular Medical School), with further new schools due to open in Derby, Hull/York and Brighton this September. Please be praying for new student members, medical school secretaries and CMF student...
We are delighted to have Lorna Nunn (Scottish staffworker) join the student ministry team (see page 2). Becky Petherick (Midlands Relay worker) completed an excellent six months in February and has returned to full time medicine as an A&E SHO. She was a great help to the students in Warwick...
'If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.' This quote, from the 18th century French philosopher, Voltaire, sums up the thoughts of many non-Christians. Weak human beings feel the need for a higher power to make them feel secure in an uncertain world, so they invent...
Do you ever feel that your evangelism skills could be honed? Do you long to get the gospel message through to your friends but struggle to communicate? Or perhaps you worry about the difficult questions that might get thrown at you should you share your faith. If you can identify...
Funerals are funny things. It doesn’t seem to matter too much how the person lived or what they believed in life, the comments made often tend to run down familiar lines. Along with reminiscences about what a nice person they were, there is often some kind of reassurance that they...
A disturbing trend was highlighted by the recent publication of a document entitled Religious Tolerance and Respect on Campus. [1] Written by a Muslim chaplain at Oxford University, it claims the support of several organisations, including the National Union of Students. Its aim is the establishment of interfaith discussion groups...
Virtually every area of apologetics stands or falls on the Bible. We claim Jesus is the only way because he made that clear in the Bible. We also know that God will be fair to those who've never heard the gospel because of his character revealed in the Bible. Without...