For our soul's sake, we need times when we go among Christ's favourites - the broken, the bruised, the dispossessed - not to preach to them but to learn from them. For the sake of our balance, for the sake of our sanity, we need times when we are among those who, in the words of Mahatma Gandhi live an 'eternal compulsory fast'. (Richard Foster)

Spend from two weeks to four months volunteering with Tearfund in some of the world's poorest communities.

'Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.'
Romans 12:2 (The Message)