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When the first words someone says to you are “I think I lost God this week” it can be hard not to jump to conclusions, and even harder to think of what exactly to say next. This was my experience a few weeks ago at a freshers fair stand in Bath. We stood there, between the Nandos stand and a...

AT FUSION, WE LOVE HEARING STORIES OF HOW GOD IS MOVING ACROSS UNIVERSITIES AND HOW CHURCHES ARE WELCOMING FRESHERS INTO THEIR CHURCH COMMUNITIES.  Helen is a student worker at her church in Leeds. The church is dedicated to reaching students with no background in Christian culture. They love to engage with students who have never explored faith but would like to...

Pippa is the student worker at Preston Minster. She’s passionate about seeing more of the 40,000 students in Preston come to know Jesus and find home in the local church.  Just north of Manchester, Preston campus forms part of the University of Central Lancashire, making up a third of the population of the city of Preston. Pippa began her role as...

When I was younger I decided to give up chocolate for Lent one year (original, I know). The problem was, I would often forget and I remember once finding myself outside Greggs with an almost finished Chocolate Eclair. As soon as I remembered, I felt an intense feeling of guilt! Is this what Lent’s about? Is it simply about depriving...

If I’m really honest, the idea of a Bible study can sometimes sound quite boring. For me it can evoke ideas of sitting on an uncomfortable pew, in an old cold church and either not knowing what to say about a passage, or listening to others and forgetting what they said 10 minutes later. Unfortunately, this might be the experience for...

If we learnt one thing from 2020, it would be that preparation can be thrown out of the window. Our best ideas that we’ve spent so long thinking about and planning, can be changed at the last minute. So, how do we prepare well for the start of the next academic year, knowing that our plans could change?  As student workers,...

As a student worker I would normally see the summer as time to recharge, rethink and rest. But how do we navigate a summer when Zoom has made online connections easier and we may not see the usual mass exodus of students from our cities?  The life of Jesus was full of distractions, people all around him were competing for his...

A few years ago I was given a few prophetic words around the idea of me being called to evangelism. I loved chatting to my friends about my faith but I didn’t love the idea of going up to a stranger and asking them if they knew Jesus. I would see others doing it and think it was brilliant, but...

"and make an everlasting covenant with them..." (Isaiah 61:8) We don’t often hear the word ‘covenant’ today, do we? A covenant simply refers to an agreement or promise, and today we’re probably only likely to hear it during a marriage ceremony. And yet the story of covenant, or partnership, between God and his people is the narrative of the Bible.  Right from the beginning...