Freshers week and all of its fun and folly mark the lives of most students arriving at Uni this month. Late nights. Meeting friends for coffee. Exploring a new city. Deep and meaningful conversation. Experiences that make one’s heart skip a beat.
Our students, studying to earn a BA in Theology and Mission, have been back at Uni for a month already. It’s not lost on us just what our students give up when they begin studying in a placement-based degree programme.
Our students’ experience things a little differently. They may spend September exploring their new town, but some are also adjusting to a new church or youth project, meeting new families, building relationships with teenagers, and (gulp!) learning how to work with a line manager.
They have late nights out, but it often involves delivering a bunch of giggling fourteen-year-olds safely back to their families after an all-day youth festival. They go out for coffee a lot, but it’s often with that sixteen year old who is bowing under the pressure of upcoming exams.
They have lots of deep and meaningful conversations, but it’s often with young people who are trying to make sense of the God of the Bible in this secular age.
Our students know how to have fun. Activities abound, but they are charged with keeping everyone safe and the responsibility runs deep.
Love is not elusive, but it’s a love of a different kind as our students begin to care deeply for the young people they minister to. Instead of dealing with heart
This lot of students are unassuming and courageous. They are passionate and bold. They are fun and life-giving. Each one could have had a normal university experience, but they have taken a different route that allows them to serve young people and the church full- time.
These students are our heroes.
Sometimes taking the road less travelled is lonely and you are all too aware of what you have given up or left behind. If you know or support a student with Reign Ministries, encourage them today. Let them know that you see them and the sacrifice they are making. Then pray for their youth ministry and degree studies. Also,
If you want to learn more about becoming a non-traditional student and serving young people in your church while earning a qualification, visit our degree page for more information.
Categories: 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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