Don't Forget Your Students

Abstract

"This autumn, tens of thousands of young people will have left home and gone to places of higher education throughout the country. By now they will be pursuing their courses in colleges, universities and polytechnics and many of them will have been totally ignored by the churches from which they have come and the churches in the towns and cities where they are studying. This article is a plea not to forget our students and to give the Baptist Union Commendation Scheme much more serious attention

For over 11 years I have been Baptist Chaplain to the University of Bristol and during this period have received commendations for hundreds of students. I have also seen many of our young people from Tyndale leave Bristol to study elsewhere. Further, my eldest son is now at Oxford and I have found it encouraging to know that there is a church and a chaplain there interested in his welfare. What I have to say here comes from my concern as a chaplain, as minister of a sending church and as a parent"