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The student mission podcast is now on tour! This season, we are travelling the UK and hearing inspiring stories from students who have come to faith in the last 18 months! In this episode, we’re in Loughborough with Daniel, Caleb and Neve all who began University with no faith in Jesus. We are seeing a spiritual awakening amongst Gen Z and we...

Barriers to Mission - Part 1 What Happened to Our Confidence? My friend’s kids are hilarious. I love hearing each funny little story every time we see them. The one about my friend’s three-year-old shouting “Praise the Lord!” at the top of her lungs when her parents pray at meal times, or another friend whose daughter, whenever she’s asked “Guess who we’re...

God Can Use Anything…Even Simpsons Socks At Manchester Freshers’ Fair this year, something incredible happened. A student was walking through the stalls when he spotted the Simpsons Society. By complete coincidence, he happened to be wearing his Simpsons socks that day. As he walked past, someone from the stall called out: “Hey! Have you heard the good news?” Naturally, he assumed this was a...

I remember a few years ago when it seemed like everyone I knew was complaining that their boomer parents were constantly on their phones and not being present during Christmas holidays.  The current student generation were born between 2004 - 2007. That makes me feel a bit old as I’ve worked for Fusion since then! It also means they are digital...

Over the last month we have all welcomed and celebrated the arrival of freshers into their new homes as they have arrived at university. Students are, as usual, nervous about starting their new lives in new places, meeting new people and experiencing new challenges, but we are also seeing that students are incredibly open to scripture and are boldly stepping...

There is much excitement about the current openness of students and young adults to Jesus and the church - and rightly so. But there is an important question to ask ourselves in the midst of all the celebration: how did we get here? This new openness isn’t something that we just woke up to one day - although it may...

I remember when I was a final year student at Bristol University, I was part of a great church, and had a great student small group. There weren’t loads of students in our church but we had a really nice number. We’d started off in my first year with just a handful and grown organically to a group of around...