On Wednesday 22nd February, Mike Penning visited the New Horizons Christian Fellowship and WorldShapers Academy and met with Pastor Arno Steen Andreason.

New Horizons Christian Fellowship meets in a relaxed atmosphere with café-style services held at Woodhall Farm Community Centre. They work in partnership with WorldShapers Academy who hold teaching sessions during the day in healing, prayer, life coaching, trends in youth culture, etc. Students are from overseas and as part of their course they are expected to do voluntary work in the local community. As such they are heavily involved with DENS (Dacorum Emergency Night Shelter) and run a football tournament for young people.

After his visit, Mike Penning said: “I have enjoyed meeting with New Horizons and am very impressed by the work they do. The training the international students are benefiting from here can be taken back to their home countries. It is great to see students from places such as South Africa, India and Denmark working together with local students here. I very much hope that the enjoy their time here in Hemel Hempstead and in turn that local people benefit from the contacts with other cultures. It is great to see young volunteers working for the good of the local community. “I am especially pleased to have been able to help some of the students with their one-year student visa applications as some of them were initially refused.”

Photo: Some of the students helped by Mike.

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