“I’m sorry, but you have a problem.” In my life this sentence is usually followed by “this ticket was only valid yesterday” or “this PC has crashed again, buy a mac” or even “there is a duck dying noisily in your garden”.

These are all things that have been said to me. It is often annoying when someone tells you that you have a problem, but it also usually reflective of a tough truth that needs addressing.

I am here to tell you that you have a problem. Something is broken and you are needed to help fix it. The problem is that most Christians who go to university, give up on church when they get there. Most of them lose their faith as a result of this. This means about 12,000 young people leave the church each year and this problem is too big to write off as someone else’s problem.

The reasons for the disconnect are many, but the numbers are greatly improved if the young people are prepared for uni life by their home church and registered with Student Linkup. It is free to register with Student Linkup and it means that a young person will be contacted by great churches in their place of study, they receive encouraging emails about loving Jesus at uni and they also get access to the contact details of other Christian freshers going to the same place. It is simple. But there are people who Fusion won’t know about unless you connect us. You are probably holding the key to a number of young people finding a church at uni. Who do you know that is going to uni? Will you help us to help them find a church at uni? Please spend a couple of minutes fixing a problem.

1. Can you contact anyone you know who is going to uni in the autumn and get them to register with Student Linkup?

2. Can you send this blog to the youth worker or leader of your home church and recommend that they get hold of Fusion’s preparation for uni resources?