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Ramone Charles tells us about how he and his youth work volunteers supported their young people through the transition to university - humbling and exciting stuff: You’ve just had a gathering for your young people who’ve returned from University, what inspired that? After using Fusion’s Trainer Pack we had a very successful send off to our friends who were going away to...

I’ve got a new pass-time. I call it throwing spanners.  To ‘throw a spanner in the works’ means ‘to do something that prevents a plan or activity from succeeding’, which doesn’t sound a very nice thing to do, granted. What I mean however, is that I want to be more bold at asking questions that cause us to stop for a...

‘First it's Jesus Sir, then its Dubstep’, commented one of the lads I work with.  This flippant yet quite profound quote got me thinking. What are the priorities in my life? What is it about my life with Jesus that gets people talking? Is it the sort of music I listen to, the choice of language I use when I am...

I read recently that the word for ‘listening’ in Latin is ‘obedire’ and the Latin word ‘audire’ means ‘listening with great attention’. This is where the word ‘obedience’ originates from. To be obedient is to listen. Jesus listened to the Father in the midst of suffering and he learned experimentally and practically. ‘Even though Jesus was God's Son, he learned obedience from...

Students, your new year's eve plans just got better... here's our Shift Team mates to let you in on the party, and Miriam will see you there! So last year we thought let’s throw a New Year’s Eve party and hope a few of our friends would show – 500 people did. This year we are doing it again but bigger &...

‘There was a time I used to look into my father's eyes In a happy home I was a king I had a golden throne Those days are gone, now the memories are on the wall I hear the songs from the places where I was born’ Students across the nation are heading home for Christmas, back to the family and friends they’ve just...

Most things in life work in rhythms - starting, continuing, ending.  School life may seem long at the time, but it has a start and an end, with a few in between.  A career was historically expected to be a life-long endeavour, but with an unreliable economy and a generation eager to be on their toes and forever moving, this is...