Jul 21st 2011 -
Are you starting uni this year? Do you know someone who is? Send them to studentlinkup.org. It takes less than a minute to sign-up and school leavers are connected to local churches around their uni. Student Workers will get in touch to let them know how to get involved and they’ll receive e-mails from Fusion, packed full of encouragement and advice,...
Jul 20th 2011 -
I was so encouraged the other week when I turned up to a G2 Students summer picnic and a voice called at me from across the circle-like rabble of faces 'Pippa! I have become a Christian!'. The poor guy was a little taken aback at my enthusiasm and my ample hugs, but I couldn't help being both overjoyed and a little...
Jul 19th 2011 -
As I meandered through Picadilly Circus at lunchtime yesterday I came to a large group of people blocking my path. After 3 years of living in London and working in tourist-laden Covent Garden, I have learnt to walk like a Londoner. This usually takes on the guise of walking at a speed most people would label ‘an awkward-looking-run’, and adopting a...
Jul 18th 2011 -
The cheesy quotes that are spurted out on The Apprentice just keep getting better. The recently fired Melody said, “Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon”. The moon is in the sky Melody. And also…what?! These sorts of comments about being a star, a hero or a legend are really common on TV. So...
Jul 14th 2011 -
Maybe I have an over-active imagination but, when I think about the wave of freshers that arrive every October, I see images from the 1954 classic ‘Godzilla’. Hands clapped over mouths, people running away, falling over, chaos and destruction everywhere. The freshers are coming! Thousands of new students arrive in a cacophony of noise, mess and confusion. Why does this invasion seem...
Jul 13th 2011 -
Over the last two days I’ve spent some time out with some great people having some space, talking, eating and reflecting. I’ve come to realise, as a busy, pioneering people-person, I need reflection. Some people find reflection very easy – they’re driven by it, or a least crave it. Others, like me, need to make space for it, because stopping and being...
Jul 12th 2011 -
Isn't it amazing when God gives you vision? When prophecies or dreams give you that peace that surpasses understanding, or things just seem to fit beautifully into place? Sometimes God works like that.... but what about when he doesn't? What about when you have a summer stretching ahead of you, no job and an overdraft to pay back? What about when you...
