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In its first four years Touchpoint has reached 700 students and young people in five of Norway’s university cities and towns. Caroline Harmon caught up with Roy Elling back in May to find out more. Roy Elling Foss is employed by the Missionary Federation to build Touchpoint Norway. Roy lives in Kristiansand, and leads Touchpoint Kristiansand and Touchpoint Norway. Tell us a...

Richard Blizzard is studying Product Design at Nottingham Trent University. He joined Trent Vineyard Church after finding the church through the Student Linkup app. We caught up with him the day after he handed in his final project for his second year. Student Linkup helped me so much. I probably wouldn’t have gone to church at uni without it. I found out...

I’ve always had this little idea to one day get through all the red tape and have a bungee jump on campus during freshers week. I’m picturing a massive crane, parked up in the centre of uni, and if I was really shameless I’d make a big banner and call it ‘the leap of faith’. During fresher’s week, whilst everyone is...

Over the last three weeks we have been at 21 different freshers fairs, inviting students to #Trychurch, daring them to experience something life changing, to discover community, discover home and discover Jesus.   "What is church like?" Across the 21 different cities, 421 students said yes to giving church a try, and one of the most asked questions was "what is church,...

In each issue of Fuse we profile a Fusion Connection Church. Rosie Fraser caught up with Jon Carter, one of the Student Workers at Kings Cross Church (KXC) in London. Tell us a bit about your church? We’re seven years old as a church, so we’re still pretty young. We’ve grown from just a handful of people to between 500 and 600...

Watch the latest spoken word from Miriam Swaffield and our friends at yesHeis. And so we improvise Playing our part under kingdom skies, Living this ancient-present-future story, The grand narrative that swallows up and transforms destiny. In freedom, in trust, we know the book and so we live the Way, We create and perform the drama of God, we step onto the stage of our day, And...

Rebecka is from Gothenburg, sweden and came to study in York last year when she became a christian. Before coming to university I wasn’t a Christian, I had never really met anyone particularly passionate about Jesus and quite frankly I didn’t care if there was a God or not. Starting uni was a big change in many ways (I moved all the...