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In May this year students, like they do every year, were hit by exam and assignment season. Just as the weather turns nice, or as nice as we have come to expect in York, they begin their journey of revision stress, deadline chasing and just wishing they could just go back home for summer and relax. We can all relate...

Every now and again, we get to see glimpses of the seeds we’ve sown.  Recently, I experienced a prompt from the Holy Spirit to reach out to a student who was at our church 20 years ago. Liz Hunter (as she was then) was one of our first students at G2; she was clever, academic, thoughtful, passionate and quite scatty. Well,...

Imagine coming to faith, all alone, through reading the Bible. When Alfie came to uni he’d been following Jesus for two years but had never been part of a Church community. Discovering Jesus through reading his Bible as a 16 year old led to living a largely secret faith for six or seven months before telling his family and then...

Last month a group of students in Lincoln made the courageous decision to head out onto campus and chat with students about Jesus as part of their monthly student night.  The students used the Fusion Survey as a means of sparking conversations about faith. Despite some feeling nervous and anxious about the prospect of chatting with strangers about Jesus, every single...

At the start of the academic year of 2022, we started surveying students to try to get a sense of what values they have, what drives them and how they feel about the world they live in. The survey turned out to be an incredible tool for creating missional opportunities to share the Gospel with students and invite them to...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been in a few spaces across the UK and been moved to tears by what God is doing in the lives of students. Hunger, surrender and a willingness laid down everything for the sake of knowing Jesus and having Him. We are seeing a generation of students who are saying they are ALL IN. Last...

As Fusion, we’re often on the road meeting local churches and hearing stories of how God is moving amongst the student generation. Caleb, is a third year student, studying at ACM in Guildford… During the first semester, Caleb was attending a music class and had sat down next to a coursemate, Oscar, whom he shared the same jam lectures with. During...