Bless first came into being as a UK project, enabling young adults to take advantage of the genuine cross-cultural experiences available ‘just across the Channel’. Our work soon expanded to include participants from beyond the UK, and to date our students have also come from France, the Netherlands, Australia and the USA. Many come to us with deep questions about faith, church and the purpose of their lives. They find in Bless a new spiritual family able to help them to a place of confidence and purpose. Many discover and develop new gifts. Many set doubts aside and embrace deeper faith. All report an experience that has challenged and changed them. We call this process ‘missional formation’.