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Latest News – Evangelism
An Evangelism Tool You Already Have: Use your own story to naturally communicate how to become a Christian.
An article written by Sarah Martin. Cheeia Lo loved telling her story. But she wasn't ready to recount it before 300 relatives at a family reunion. "I'm the first generation to go to university, so my dad wanted me to talk about uni life to encourage my cousins and...
“Fizzing” for God’s Kingdom: Izzy’s Journey From New Christian to Student Life Intern
Izzy was first introduced to Student Life through the University of Otago’s campus outreach in 2015. Lizzy, a Student Life staff member, shared Izzy’s story two years ago in Tandem’s Annual Report. “[Izzy] had a bright, infectious smile and a warm personality. She was...
The Prize: Faith Under the Microscope
In June and July of this year, the world’s eyes will be turned towards Russia as teams from 32 countries compete at the FIFA World Cup. Famed Liverpool football manager of the 1970s Bill Shankly half-jokingly said, “Football’s not a matter of life and death - it’s...
Samoan Language Week: Alofa atu nei. Alofa mai taeao – Kindness given. Kindness gained.
Student Life staff Joshua Taylor (second from left) and Michael Jeffs (third from right) with students at an outreach event on campus at the National University of Samoa. Talofa Lava! Samoan Language Week is coming up (27 May - 2 June), and the theme for 2018 is...
Not Missing An Opportunity to Share Jesus
It was hot and sunny while I sat in the busy intercity bus station in Wichita, Kansas. As I waited for my bus, I saw a man standing by the vending machine struggling to get the machine to work. His name was Kibrom, and he came to the U.S. from Ethiopia about a month...
The least likelies: Stepping Outside our Evangelism Comfort Zone
Flick through any of the gospels and you’ll quickly notice Jesus was a bit of a rebel; throwing merchants out of the temple (John 2:13-16), dressing down the religious elite (Matt. 23:13-14)... Jesus didn’t have time for the social pecking order either. As I was...
God’s Invisible Work
I’m amazed by just how much evangelism Student Life gets up to. Every week it seems a new email comes in with news about some incredible feat the students have got up to (whether it’s taking turns over the course of a whole week to fast and pray for God, or the...
How to Live Out Your Faith: From Campus to the Cubicle
A simple change in perspective changed my life at work. I hit “post” on Twitter and looked up from my phone to scan the bus around me. Two weeks into my first ad agency job, I felt like a failure. I knew God called me there, but I never knew I would feel this lost....
Perseverance Leads to GKR Karate World Champion’s Life Change
This is an everyday story of how Josh, a student leader with Athletes in Action, persevered in contacting Mark, an Orientation Week contact...and how his labour in the Lord was not in vain. This is Mark’s story: “I wasn’t born into a Christian family - none of us...
Who knew Jandals could Change Lives?
Walking through a university campus in the first couple of weeks of semester is hectic. Most of us will have seen a version of it in a movie or TV show, or perhaps have experienced it personally; a scene of hundreds of students walking by stalls of more people, who...
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