Answer the Call: Matthew

Over the next 24 hours, Just Love Glasgow will be doing Stand For Freedom; a peaceful but powerful protest against modern day slavery in partnership with International Justice Mission. 45 million people are currently enslaved, and we want to act on this injustice. In this blog, Matthew explains a little behind a huge contributor to…

Answer the Call: Lauren

As I was looking up the theme verse for this year (Ephesians 4:1), I came across The Message version of Ephesians 14:1-3 and was particularly drawn to the urgency of what is written, “In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master,…

Answer the Call: Ellie-Jo

Throughout my childhood I faced many challenges. I didn’t feel normal. I lost my innocence pretty early on in life, coming face to face with violence, addiction, sickness and death before I turned 18. I was scared of the world and the things it threw at me, it felt like everything was against me, nothing…

Answer the Call: Beth

“Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.” Isaiah 1:17 God cares about social justice. It’s something I don’t think I realised for a while, but looking back it’s crazy obvious; the Bible is full of examples of this and the more I realise it the…

Answer the Call: Sarah

From the age of seven, I was aware of a calling in my life. Whenever anyone asked, I would always say I wanted to be a dentist when I grew up. This dream persisted throughout primary school and secondary school, and when it came to UCAS applications I had no doubts in my mind as…

Answer the Call: Fiona

  When people used to talk to me about slavery, I always considered it to be a 19th century problem that had been fixed. William Wilberforce had surely all but eradicated it. It was merely a topic to be studied in a history class. For me, slavery was just not part of my 21st century…

Answer the Call: Mollie

I’m Mollie, a first year English Literature student at the University of Glasgow, originally from Newcastle. Glasgow was definitely a city that I felt that God was calling me to and I was so excited at the prospect of moving away, uncovering why God was calling me here in particular and ultimately growing in my…

Answer the Call: Alice

I had a pretty sheltered upbringing. I’m ashamed to say I was very oblivious to the wider world around me and I had no idea of the extent of poverty in this world – until I went on a trip aged 12 that really opened my eyes to the world outside of what I knew,…

Answer the Call: Ellen

Before Jesus ascended up into the Heavens, his last words of advice to his disciples were ‘you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ [Acts 1:8] For the past two months, Just Love has been focusing on the topic of ‘Calling’, looking into what is…