With help from SU, vicar Dominic Newstead brought together nine churches in Potters Bar to set up a year-round mission programme. Four years later, it attracts almost 100 children and young people

When COVID-19 lockdown came, your support enabled us to rapidly repurpose for a brave new world of mission. So what has mission looked like over the past few months, and what lessons have been learned

Bristol Brickers - a basketball club and outreach for young people in Southmead, Bristol

Sam, 18, has attended Kestrels, an SU sailing holiday, for the last three years. Normally they would be sailing on the Norfolk Broads, but this year things were different as the holiday went online.

When lockdown came, parents began asking what digital resources we had for them to use at home with their children. Mission practitioners also wanted to know how we could help them continue to reach

Schools and churches have closed, and mission plans have been cancelled or postponed. But we’re finding that COVID-19 lockdown is also opening up some fantastic new mission fields. Toby Chant from SU