About Us
Our Vision
At Just Love, our ultimate vision is God’s kingdom of perfect peace and perfect justice on earth as it is in heaven. It is the future that we hope for at the widest possible lens. Ultimately, our vision is that we would faithfully play our part in God’s much bigger vision of complete restoration.
In a world of terrible violence, suffering and injustice, and in a discipleship culture that tends to be justice-light, we want to cultivate a network of thousands pursuing justice in the way of Jesus holistically, fruitfully and sustainably.
Our work with university students across the UK lays the foundations of that whole-life pursuit of justice in the way of Jesus. The Just Love Network exists to provide deep justice discipleship, facilitate embodied connection with a community who love Jesus and are passionate about justice, and enable practical justice action.
Our Values
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This is our first and central value – all the others flow from it. We care about justice because we love Jesus, and we care about the things he loves. Jesus’ life, teaching, death and resurrection set the pattern for our pursuit of justice. We are committed to the journey of following Jesus and becoming more like Jesus together.
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We want to love people well and that means thinking deeply and critically about our pursuit of justice, as well as seeking out and learning from those with greater expertise and experience.
We care deeply about the quality, impact, and sustainability of all that we do. When we decide what issues to focus on and how we tackle them, we think, research and prayerfully consider how we can best serve those in greatest need in our world. But we never want our pursuit of justice to become abstract or impersonal. We want to be biassed towards action – doing justice well, not just talking about justice well. We won’t always get it right, but our desire is to learn and to serve others well.
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In a culture of polarization, where we gravitate towards echo chambers with people who look like us and think like us, we seek to build bridges of relationship and collaboration. We are only a small part of what God is doing in the world, and we choose to view others as partners in God’s mission, not threats to our mission. Without exception, we treat everyone with generosity, dignity and kindness. And we commit to the slow work of earning trust and building with others what would not be possible separately.
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We want to form leaders of integrity, courage, compassion and resilience – leaders who lead like Jesus. We want our student groups to be spaces of incubation, where leaders of the future are formed and equipped with the character, values, theology and practices to seek justice in the way of Jesus for the rest of their lives.
We keep a long-term perspective because it’s in decades to come that the real impact of Just Love will be seen.
We believe that growing leaders grow other leaders. At every level of Just Love, we always want to be thinking about how to identify, empower and invest in other leaders around us, so that they can be better than we ever could be.
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In a culture where truth is increasingly contested, we care deeply about what is true, biblical and Christlike. At the same time, we want to be humble about our limited capacity to fully grasp all truth this side of new creation. Therefore, we welcome nuance as we engage with the complexities of injustice. We want to seek out challenges and make space for disagreement and dialogue. We always assume that we have more to learn and seek to understand before trying to be understood.
Our Mission
We form disciples who pursue justice in the way of Jesus with their whole lives.
Our student work activates this formation at a critical life stage to form students with the character, values, theology and practices of disciples who are seeking justice in the way of Jesus.
Our Network exists to provide deep justice discipleship for the UK church, facilitate embodied connection with a community who love Jesus and are passionate about justice, and enable practical justice action. This formation is lifelong, relational and practical.
Our media ecosystem supports both of these streams and invites the whole church into justice discipleship.
Who are we?
Get to know our staff team, trustees and advisory board who are the heart of our work and share a common passion for Jesus and justice.
Interested in working for us? Check out our Careers page to find out more about the graduate scheme and how to apply with the application pack.Careers
Our Partners
Our Impact
Since Just Love began in 2013, Just Love students have run 7,657 events, with an aggregate attendance of 88,575 students. They’ve raised £215,456 for other charities and given 43,500 volunteer hours in their local communities.
And this is only the beginning of the impact that Just Love students are having. Through training leaders of integrity and compassion, and forming them in the values, theology and practices of self-giving love, we are setting students on a long-term trajectory of pursuing justice in the way of Jesus well beyond university. Beyond university, the Just Love Network provides a lifelong space of support and action in the work of justice - supporting graduates to continue pursuing justice for the long haul.
