REDEEMER TAKES 65 TO NEWDAY

Seeing young lives transformed at Newday has become a moment to look forward to every summer for us at Redeemer Church London.

Each year we send a large group of teenagers to the Norfolk countryside for a week of learning more about Jesus Christ and worshipping Him.

At the annual Christian youth festival’s 2026 event last week, we had 65 people from Redeemer – including 40 youths and 25 adults.

Newday, which has developed into one of the UK’s largest Christian events for young people, had a total of around 11,500 attendees this year.

Some 705 of these youngsters dedicated their lives to Jesus for the first time, while 345 reported being healed – including three from our church.

But a further cause for celebration was how many of our young people grew in confidence in their faith and willingness to share it with others.

There were also testimonies of back pains gone; hearing restored with hearing aids no longer needed; and eyesight strengthened with the ability to read without glasses.

The latest event comes two decades on from when Newday launched in 2004, having first been organised by the Newfrontiers family of churches.

Redeemer is part of the wider Newfrontiers network through Advance, a movement established in 2011 when Newfrontiers was split into sections.

If you’d like to be at Newday next year, it will take place at the Norfolk Showground from August 2 to 6, 2027 – click here for more details.

#RedeemerRecommends - 9 Things You Should Know About Hinduism

This week Hindus across London and the rest of the world have been celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights!

As a result, our latest #RedeemerRecommends is a blog from Joe Carter, which is a summary of the Hindu faith, and is incredibly helpful if you’re a Christian trying to learn more about how to connect with those from different religious backgrounds.

If this blog interests you, then why not sign up to our event on Saturday - ‘Discovering Jesus through Asian Eyes’, as we seek to equip ourselves as Christians to better reach our friends, neighbours and colleagues who come from different cultural and religious backgrounds.

You can read the beginning of the blog, and find a link to the whole thing below…

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This week more than a billion Hindus across the globe are celebrating Diwali. The five-day religious observance, which is also celebrated by followers of Sikh and Jain faiths, is the biggest holiday of the year in India, the country with the largest population of Hindus.

Here are nine things you should know about Hinduism.

1. Although Hinduism is often treated as a single religion, it is more accurate to describe it as a family of religions that share common beliefs and characteristics. Some scholars claim that early Hinduism originated around 5500 BC, making it one of the world’s oldest religions. The term Hindu was first used by the Persians, dating back to the 6th century BC, to describe the people living beyond the Indus River. For more than a thousand years the label had no specific religious connotation. In the early 19th century, though, the term Hinduism was coined by British writers to refer to the family of Vedic religious traditions. Some modern Hindus prefer the name “Vedic religion” or sanatana dharma (“eternal law”) rather than the label Hinduism.