Blog: Students

Next week, after four fantastic years, I’ll be leaving Fusion to start a new job. Consequently, this will be my last post on the Fusion blog! A lot has changed since me springing into the role of Student Mission Developer, in 2006, shortly after I finished my degree in Sports Science at Loughborough. The Fusion Blog itself was just a twinkling...

I read some interesting advice on healthy eating... fruit juice is fruit with some of the good bits whizzed out. With the fibre removed in the processing, our bodies don't get the opportunity to glean all the nutrients that would have been available if we had simply munched on an orange. So whilst fruit juice and big pricey cartons of Innocent...

It's likely that right this very moment, students all over the country are frantically ringing round family, mates (and random Facebook friends who's 'camping 2011' albums they've stumbled across) .... in an attempt to pull together tents, camping stoves, blow up mattresses and plastic cutlery. Festival season is upon us as thousands of Christians flock towards Soul Survivor, New Wine,...

Human cannonball acts are well known for being dangerous, but are not widely regarded as a safe method of transport. If your Aunty Edith needed to go shopping you wouldn’t suggest cannoning her down the high street. But now you are thinking about it, which is bad. Imagine being a human cannonball. The anticipation when you are inside the cannon, looking...

Every day we are faced with choices. Choices about our day, our outfit, what we will have for lunch, whether we turn up for work, whether we press snooze on the alarm for the 10th time..... and then there are the bigger choices. Choices that shape our future. What will we do? What course will we apply for - what do...

The Fusion bedroom stand is setup and working well at New Wine. It will be there for 5 weeks now through Soul Survivor and Momentum.  On the stand, we are chatting to all sorts of people about student mission. Students, school leavers, graduates, parents, youth workers, student workers and church leaders. Across the board, people are waking up to student mission...

Trust is a bit like the eggs in a chocolate sponge cake.  You can put in all the ingredients but you need the eggs to bind it all together and make the cake actually rise.  Ok, so maybe not the most profound analogy but you see what I’m getting at: without trust in God as your foundation any attempt to live...