Hi Everyone! My name is Anthony and I am in my final year of this 3 year degree course.
To be honest I was not looking for a university course at all, Reign came looking for me. I felt that I was not the right type of person to return to studying after an exceptionally long break, 20 years to be exact. I was currently volunteering in my local community as a youth worker when I came across Reign Ministries. Before this, I had never heard of them before.
I was attending a weekly prayer event for youth workers in my area and Kyle McKinnon just happened to be the guest speaker that day. He gave a short talk about Reign Ministries and the Theology Degree programme. He then passed me a card with contact details on for if I was ever interested in exploring the degree.
I returned to my job as a youth worker and began to pray about this opportunity, asking God to show me if this opportunity was from Him. I did not think for a single moment that my current circumstances would allow me to do this but God had other plans. The more I prayed about the degree, the more I realised my feelings around it were getting stronger, not going away. That is when I knew this opportunity was from God.
I had a telephone call with Pete Telfer who discussed the course with me. He then sent me a prospectus and a chocolate bar… I mean who doesn’t like free chocolate!?
I wasn’t able to attend an Open Day, so after I had applied for the course it wasn’t until September 2019 that I got to meet everyone in person. I was a quiet, nervous person but I found that the Reign staff, and my fellow students supported and encouraged me to fulfil the potential God had given me.
In the Spring of 2020, God said to me that He was sending me 141 miles from where I was currently living and working. Initially I was very hesitant in listening to this call. I am so glad that I was obedient as God has blessed me with accommodation, an amazing wife and I am going from strength to strength with my Church and Work Based Learning. The opportunities keep on coming and I am grabbing them with both hands!
Absolutely!! When I first spoke to Pete about all my concerns, he soon put me at ease. My age still bothers me a little, at 38 I am the oldest student in my year, but that is OK. God can still use me to fulfill His plan and He is doing just that!
For anyone that is thinking of enrolling with Reign, I would say just do it. The love, support, and encouragement that I am receiving from them is amazing and I feel so blessed to call them family and I will be praying you do to!
If you, like Anthony was, are unsure that doing a degree is right for you, then why don’t you request a prospectus below to find out more or join us on our next Open Day?
Categories: Testimony, Youth Ministry Degree Course
Updated: 28 Mar 2024 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Hi everyone! I am Jamie Gurling and I started studying at Reign this year. I am 19 and from Glasgow in Scotland. I left high school in 2022 and I thought the next step was obvious, to go straight into further education, just the same as everyone else. So, I followed the norm, moved city […]
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Updated: 18 May 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
As a ministry we have been reviewing how we deliver the degree progamme in a way that fits both our vision and DNA, whilst still providing quality training for the next generation of disciple-making leaders. From September 2023 we implemented some changes and we are excited to see how God is going to lead us […]
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Updated: 26 Apr 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
“Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve – designating them apostles – that they might be with him and that he might send them out…” (Mark 3.13-14) Where do I start? I had just started my first real ministry role in […]
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Updated: 29 Mar 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Is Bigger Better? The bigger your youth group, the better, right? We get a special energy from the buzz of a crowd. We believe that when we’re connected to more people we’re able to have more impact. But is this really the case in youth ministry? Most of us have the feeling that this approach […]
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Updated: 22 Feb 2023 | Posted by: kmckinnon
If you were to attend one of our Expand Training Experiences you will hear our team talk about discipleship. That’s because it is the foundational to who Reign Ministries is. During our Expand: Online training you will learn the tools to help you be effective in your discipleship of young people. Watch the video below […]
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Updated: 8 Feb 2023 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Where Is God Calling Me? I have a calling to youth ministry. But 30 years ago – I had no idea! I remember sitting in a marquee at a Christian music festival as a teenager, listening to a speaker talking about ‘Hearing God’s Call’. This was something I was wrestling with, so I figured that […]
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Updated: 8 Apr 2025 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Exciting news! Reign Ministries is excited to announce we have a new college we are linking with for an undergraduate degree! Moorlands College will be the new home for our degree students from September. For over 20 years, Reign Ministries has played a key role in the development of a youth pathway for an undergraduate […]
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Updated: 24 Mar 2025 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
Learning from those that have gone before you. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” writes the wise King Solomon in Ecclesiastes. He saw that life can sometimes resemble a treadmill, where history simply repeats itself and continues in a loop. […]
Read moreUpdated: 16 Dec 2024 | Posted by: Charlie Morris
After a few years of considering this move, the trustees and leadership have decided the time is right to try and sell the building we affectionately know as “the moto” (in it’s former life it was a motorcycle sales and repair shop). This building has served the charity well over many years, as a base […]
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