- Plans were revealed for the first Messy Church on Mars after Lucy Moore was spotted getting fitted for a spacesuit.
- Apple’s latest phone came with an extra pull-out camera, allowing users to take a photo of themselves taking a selfie.
- Mel and Sue launched The Great British Flake Off, a show in which twelve teenagers failed to turn up every week.
- The Ed Balls rehabilitation continued as he headlined 2017’s Big Church Day Out.
- Popular reaction to the brand new YCW led to a demand to publish twice a month. The decision was made for one monthly issue to focus on youth ministry and the other to focus on children’s ministry!
- Mike Pilavachi visited the opticians for the first time in decades, discovering he’s colour blind and was shocked to find out what he’s been wearing at the festivals for the last 25 years.
- An early morning revelation leads to Matt Redman releasing ‘10,001 reasons’. He said: “I’d just never fully appreciated Oreos.”
- The first ‘virtual reality church’ was launched. A million blog posts were written about how: “It wasn’t like this in our day”.
- Our snazzy new YCW hand movement was a huge crazy across the country.
- The whole world grew to love Donald Trump.OK, maybe we’ve gone too far with this one…
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