Students and Young Adults
Strive (20s & 30s)
If you’re in your 20s to 30s regardless of whether you are a student, worker or anything in between we’d love you to join us!
See below for what we’ve got going on this term. Some weeks we’ll be digging deeper into God’s word in groups, some weeks enjoying just hanging out together, some weeks exploring what the Bible teaches about mission, and then putting it into practice serving together. Wherever you’re at in your journey of faith, we’d love you to join us!
Upcoming monthly events:
Sun 19th May - Group walk day out!
The easiest way to find out what going on at Strive is to join our WhatsApp Group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/HQHryY1iqOoDFXWbO44I4W
Book for our 20s & 30s Weekend Away here:
Lansdowne Students
If you’re looking for a Bournemouth student church, we would love you to join us!
Wherever you’re at in your journey of knowing God you are so welcome at Lansdowne. Our hope and prayer for you is that during your time as a student you would grow as disciples of Jesus, and belong to our church family. Student years are such an amazing and often challenging time of change and new opportunities and we would love to help you make the most of that and see how God really does give us life to the full!
Monday nights - As students we meet together to study God's word each week, whether that's through a bible study or talks led by lovely members of our student team and wider church family. Each week we spend time discussing God's word and how it applies to our lives and how we can live that out. It's a great time to be encouraged in your faith, learn more about the God we love and serve and to spend time praying with and for each other. Also, a great time to make deeper friendships with both other students and our lovely student team.
Hub Cafe - Come along to the Hub Cafe for a drink and some cake each Monday and Wednesday from 10:30am- 3:30pm. Each Wednesday afternoon there will be an opportunity to do something fun together! Every other week on Wednesday afternoon from the beginning of October we will be starting a book club, come along and bring your friends. On the weeks we aren't looking at books there will be different activities from essay help to craft, do feel free to share ideas for things we can do!
Student lunches - Every Sunday we provide hosts to welcome you into their home for lunch. This is an opportunity to get to know a variety of people in our church family and a time to get to know other students in a deeper way. We love this part of student ministry which is such an opportunity to share our lives and share a meal. As a church we love welcoming people anyway we can and a real opportunity to just spend time together on a Sunday afternoon. We pray that this is a huge blessing to you over your time here with us.
Bournemouth Christian Union
The Christian Union is a team of Christian students from churches across Bournemouth which aims to give every student here the opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel. We love what the CU do, and believe they have a unique opportunity to reach students on their campuses so we’d definitely encourage you to get involved! You can visit the Universities of Bournemouth Christian Union Facebook page:
Nathan and Sophie Akrill
Get in touch!
We would love to get to hear from you! Please do get in touch with any questions, and if you’d like to grab a coffee and have a chat about anything, just drop us a message on social media and Sophie Akrill, our Student Ministry Team leader will get back to you.
Additionally, if you’re an international student, visit our international students page to find out what else Lansdowne Church offers for you.
International Café
At Lansdowne Church, wherever you have come from, whatever your beliefs, we welcome you! Each week we have a growing number of families, professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate students, language students, and refugees from all over the world attending our various activities.
We normally meet in a local coffee shop every Friday evening for a time of conversation, making friends and drinking coffee.
If you are new to Bournemouth, Christchurch or Poole and identify as an international, please get in contact via the Church office. You can also find out about our regular activities by joining our Facebook group: