In the last week I have had the amazing opportunity to spend time away with two very different groups of young people on two separate residential experiences. One group were year 7 and the other year ...  Read More

Over the past few years, we have had an increasing number of students join us for work experience. Some specifically chose Step, having had their interest piqued from something we may have run in thei...  Read More

Last Friday, we had the absolute joy of spending the day with some of the OCCA (Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics) team. If you want to know more about them, check out www.theocca.org In the mor...  Read More

This week was our work experience, and it was beyond our expectations. Each day we went to a different school and saw how Step impacted the kids. At first, we feared Step may have been a boring Christ...  Read More

On Sunday Mary and I went and spent the morning with Verso St Albans (formally The Vineyard Church St Albans) youth. We have been doing visits every three to four months looking at how faith can help ...  Read More

The Power of Haven Back in February a group of Year 11 students joined us at Loreto for a Haven Course, and it was clear that they were feeling very anxious. A quick poll of what was making them anxio...  Read More

‘Sometimes your mind plays tricks on you. It can tell you you’re no good, that it’s all hopeless. But remember you are loved, and important, and you bring to this world things that no one else can’ - ...  Read More

We had a fantastic day with the Year 7s at Verulam recently with 16 of the Step team, a mixture of staff and volunteers, inputting into the day. They were a brilliant year group who got stuck in with ...  Read More

You have hopefully heard about our iMatter journal before, it is a resource we have been using for a couple of years now. Whilst I was creating the resource one of my further plans was to create a 7 w...  Read More

This week in our Explore Club was about prayer. We were a little disappointed at the start of the session because there was a clash and some students couldn’t come. Despite that we carried on as plann...  Read More

The last few weeks in Harpenden schools we have run a couple of Grill a Christian lessons with Year 11 and Year 13 students. We have started each session with each member of the panel sharing their pe...  Read More

Values and Actions Last week I had the privilege of running a selection bootcamp for 9 students who had applied to be their school student leaders for the coming year. We set up several tasks to test ...  Read More