Students
Welcome to the wonderful city of Winchester. We recognise that your one to four years away from home are a fantastic opportunity to spread your wings and really grow in God by experiencing different churches, traditions and styles of worship. In fact you will be utterly spoilt for choice in Winchester as the churches are so alive, and do so much together! We see this choice and blessing as good and our city's gift to you! Make the most of it!
This is the opportunity of a lifetime and your chance to find and deepen your faith for yourself- and we want to help in that: whether you worship with us or not. Our focus is clearly on the Kingdom of God in this city and your life- not on our little empire at WBC. So- go for it! We suggest you sample the city's churches and either settle on one long-term or settle on one for each year of your student life. Don't be a butterfly!- get stuck in and get blessed and be a blessing. We'll all get to meet one another and worship together at one of the many city-wide events.
If you want a suggestion of churches to try- see our Affiliations page. If you want to settle with us for a while you would be so welcome. We have a student band that you could join if you sing or play an instrument and we pair students up with host families who take them under their wings and feed them every now and then. Students who are part of our regular band will also be able to participate in the worship CD we will be recording in Nov 08 or the new year. In fact, we hope to have a student worship leader and band do a set on it.
Students are welcome to join our House Groups and experience something of a diverse, supportive, family atmosphere- something they may be missing while away from home but can also go to our Student Open House that is after our Sunday evening service.
There are plenty of ways in which students can get involved in 'giving' as well as 'getting': our burgeoning Youth Congregation (The Edge), our work with Older Folks and Children. Ali Tuft is an ex Winchester Uni student who who is doing a two year's Internship with us and and we may do more of these in the future as they can be great training opportunities for new graduates- so that is worth keeping in mind as well.
If you want to be kept informed of what is going on here at WBC (or at a City level) then keep coming back to our website or sign up for our weekly mailshot.
Ali and Nai Tuft head up our student and host family ministry, alongside Tim Williamson our Youth Pastor. If you want to know more please get in touch with Tim.
Note: Sunday 26th October 08 will be our Student Welcome Lunch (after our 10am morning service).
