Sep 28th 2011 -
Are you a fresher? If so this one's for you... This baby is cute - don't deny it, I bet half you you clicked through to this blog on the strength of that baby's cute face. There has been a recent baby boom at my church and one thing that bowls me over is the adoration that these parents have for...
Sep 27th 2011 -
- a new resource for student blokes I am delighted to announce that Fusion has struck up a great partnership with CVM (Christian Vision for Men). Fusion want to reach students for Jesus. CVM want to reach blokes for Jesus. So we have formed a partnership called 'Invicta' to reach student blokes for Jesus. We hope that this partnership will create a...
Sep 26th 2011 -
Everyone loves a good story. Stories make us laugh, help us understand concepts and raise our hope. I am hearing great stories about student mission from around the UK at the moment. Whether it is churches making pancakes for students in freshers week, students helping their drunk mates get home safely or deep and meaningful God chats at 3am - I...
Sep 24th 2011 -
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...
Sep 23rd 2011 -
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...
Sep 22nd 2011 -
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...
Sep 21st 2011 -
“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...
