Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship

And then another guy called Pete Loman, who was a, an old minister, started to meet up with me.

And gradually over the next two or three years, I was discipled by, um, the UCCF movement-

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... by the, by the Intervarsity IFES movement, and I owe so much of my Christian formation to the, um, the way in which those people poured into me.

So yeah, yeah those were beautiful days they were a bit you know bumpy i remember being in a worship meeting and as i i used to play the guitar and suddenly some people in the room just dropped to the floor and i was like oh and then they started growling and i thought oh man you know what's happened you know all the other students around that they're like looking and and i thought i just oh okay this is these are this is something demonic because they would start they were out you know it's horrible stuff so i thought all right let's take that out to the room and then so i began a journey of praying for people for a deliverance i had no idea i don't know i've never seen it i read a little bit in the in the book bible i thought okay what do you do so you like you tell these things to shut up and get out and i took a bit of a time um because it okay and it's something to do with authority it's not volume it's it's authority and so like you know You learn these things on the go, don't you? And some wonderful moments I just saw happen of this, of the spirit coming on people.

And the university in the UK, we had an evangelical family of church, a family that looked after universities, UCCF universities, I don't know, Christian, UCCF anyway.

And they weren't very happy when they heard that the spirit was breaking out in our Christian union.

So they sent someone over and said, Adrian, you've got to stop this.

And there's a few places where I think a lot of Christians from different unis come together together.

You know, UCCF, who run all the CUs, they run this big forum summer festival.

So there's definitely a bit of coming together, but it's not quite where it could be, both within unis and between unis.

yeah and what and what about the kind of the marketing of the book ollie i uh yeah i'm fortunate to be a published author and i know that it's a the the book world is a very competitive marketplace um you know if you are you hoping to get this uh in unis across the land how's it going and what's your kind of uh strategy for the book

So university, uh, did English.

Uh, subsequently, I did a master's in, uh, postmodern philosophy, and, um, I found myself, not quite sure how, um, uh, working for UCCF, the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship.

Uh, but, uh, that took up a good period of my life.

And I say I'm not sure how, um, the reason being I'm really not a good evangelist and, and I wasn't back then and never really have been.

We're going to have Phil Knox from the Evangelical Alliance and Alejandra Ortiz digging into what's happening with the next generation and how can we respond to that as a global church.

Building on the research that IFES has published, on Gen Z produced by Pete Dre, who was the former creative director of evangelism at UCCF, the British IFES movement.

Then we're going to hear from David Cupples in a recording.

He's a supporter like you, but he has a long history of involvement in the student ministry in Ireland.