What We Do
B-Less exists to identify committed, ministry-minded graduate students, training and deploying them to use their experience and gifts to invest in undergraduate Christians and support the work of Christian Unions, churches, and other Christian student ministries.
Christian Unions do an amazing job of catalysing spiritual support and outreach among undergraduates – but are struggling to adapt to a world where CUs are smaller and undergraduates more time-constrained. Churches and parachurch organisations find it increasingly difficult to penetrate the conversations that take place behind the closed doors of lecture theatres and student rooms. Organised graduate student ministries are rare and, where they exist, they focus on Christian approaches to research and forming students as future influencers – but what about their potential for usefulness now?
The B-Less Scholarship aims to harness the greater experience of graduate students – their maturity in the faith and experience of undergraduate study – to encourage and support undergraduate students as they wrestle with the challenges of studying as a Christian in a secular academic context. Their presence in the same faculties and colleges, and their knowledge of course content, tutors, and lecture series, allows them to walk alongside undergraduate students and be an example of a committed Christian taking scholarship seriously.
This access, both conceptual and physical, to undergraduate conversations and environments also means that graduate students are uniquely placed to support outreach and evangelism in their faculties and colleges. B-Less seeks to connect and equip these ministry-minded, gospel-hearted graduate students to reinforce the outreach initiatives of undergraduates, providing much needed personnel, experience, resources, and capacity. Our ethos of invisible service looks like oiling the wheels of CU ministries, practically facilitating the work of undergraduates while retaining the vision of undergraduate-directed peer-to-peer evangelism.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is central to how we work, and we take our safeguarding responsibilities very seriously.
