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Sometimes I wonder if I was born in the wrong generation.  They started talking about ‘the good life’ on the Leadership Programme and I immediately thought of that 1970s sitcom starring Felicity Kendal and found myself pondering vegetable patches and dungarees.  Not very Gen Y.  Surely Kayne West and his 2008 Grammy Award winning rap song ‘Good Life’ should have...

As a tall guy in his early thirties strolled into church last Sunday, I grinned – always good to have new people along, and he had a student-age girl with him too – great, new friends! My excitement only increased when I discovered that this guy was a youthworker and the young woman was a soon-to-be-fresher at York Uni, who he’d...

I wonder if I will find a kebab in my wheelie bin in the morning? It’s Freshers week for thousands of people up and down the country right now, and it is also the first week at Uni for crowds of students up and down my street it would seem. Last week, I was sleeping peacefully, this week it’s like I’m...

“If we don’t get on our knees soon, we are going to lose a whole generation…not on my watch!”  These were the rousing words of Jonathan Oloyede at last Saturday’s 1000 leaders’ gathering at Wembley Stadium in London.   Now I grew up in Brent, the borough of London where Wembley was located, so it was a bit of a homecoming for me...

Before I went to university, I made a decision that I was going to tell people I was a Christian. "This won't be easy", I thought to myself, "some Christians are idiots and I am very intelligent." I was a bit arrogant back then. But I made my decision anyway and moved into my hall of residence. After I had heaved...

Hello and welcome to the new Fusion office in Loughborough!  I’m Matt and I’m taking on a new General Manager role within Fusion. I have just graduated from the University of Derby and am married to Jess. We’re just beginning to church plant into Leicester.  Currently our new office is a bit sparse! I believe it’s significant that this office is...

Any student worker knows the difference it makes when a fresher turns up ready to hit the ground running.  Every youth worker knows the tug of fear mixed with hope and anticipation when a young person leaves their last youth gathering before heading off to university.  That is why the York Fusion office is buzzing that we're all heading down to...