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Meet the Team

With years of experience, practical tools, and a heart for the local church, we’re here to help you find your place in God's mission to students.

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Fusion England & Wales

Rich Wilson

Rich Wilson

Fusion Movement Leader
Rich loves students and God's church and has championed the important role of local churches in student mission for over 25 years. He wants to invite a generation to A Call Less Ordinary.
Luke Smith

Luke Smith

National Team Leader (England & Wales)
Since being a student in the late 90s, Luke has worked with university students in the local church to call them be missionaries to their own generation. He leads the Fusion team in England and Wales to keep them sharp in their mission. He believes in good storytelling, God adventures, and not taking ourselves too seriously. He lives in York with his wife, Hannah, and their two lads.
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Pippa Elmes

Head of Partnership
Pippa supports those in church based student ministry to do their job really well. She loves challenging churches to work with students and equipping them to pioneer new mission opportunities to reach students.
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Rachel Sadler

Head of Operations
Rachel committed to a church at university using Student Linkup. She is now responsible for ensuring that Fusion runs effectively so a generation of students can experience university with Jesus at the centre.
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Aaron Nayagam

Head of Mission

Aaron is passionate about equipping the local church to reach and raise the next generation to know Jesus, and in particular has a heart to invest in the South Asian churches in the UK.

Roscoe Crawley

Roscoe Crawley

Worship Teams Leader
Roscoe is committed to seeing students' lives transformed by the hope of Jesus. Based in Bristol, he works with local Churches to help them disciple, mentor and equip students for mission.
Emma Pickersgill

Emma Pickersgill

Coaching Team Leader

Emma is passionate about training, equipping and investing in student ministry for the sake of the Kingdom. She's excited to see students discover the transformative love of Jesus and step further into their calling.

Will Reavell

Will Reavell

Churches Team Leader

Will’s personal experiences at university led him to know and encounter the Father’s heart in all its fullness. This love ignites his passion to resource the local church in reaching, discipling and empowering the next generation of students to share their hope and faith in Jesus. Revival come!

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Mads Brown

Evangelism Developer

During Mads' time at Uni, the local church played an integral part in allowing Mads' faith to become her own. She is now passionate about equipping churches to do the same for others, in order to see the lives of students transformed during their time at uni.

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Hope Garb

Communications Manager
For Hope finding a home in a local church at university was such a formative part of her faith. She helps manage our social media so students are connected, encouraged, and inspired through Fusion's vision and mission.
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Peter Bolton

Team Administrator & Personal Assistant to the Senior Leadership

Peter is passionate about reaching, enabling, and equipping students to discover Jesus, finding a home in the local church. Peter is based in York and works the whole team and directly with the senior leadership to help Churches to engage with mission to student communities around them.

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Josh Vickers-Smith

Church Relations Developer
Josh's experience of university in Leeds revealed to him the great joy of seeing students come to know Jesus. He's so excited to work with Churches to support them in discipling, equipping, and engaging students as they discover a home in Church, and a hope in Jesus.
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David Jennings

Coaching Team Leader (Maternity Cover)

David believes we have a huge opportunity to share the good news and is excited to be part of what God’s doing among students. As a part of the Coaching Team, he will help in equipping and training churches, students and student workers, to go out and share the good news of Jesus effectively in their own contexts.

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Adam Mitchell-Baker

Deputy National Team Leader (England & Wales)

Adam is passionate about serving the student mission movement and is excited about all that God is doing in this generation in churches across the globe. He works to ensure we deliver on our strategic goals, whilst retaining a healthy and mission-focused culture across Fusion.

Rich Thompson

Rich Thompson

Operations Manager
Rich's time at university was one of many ups and downs like many students. Rich was invited to church by his flatmate and he found a home in community there before giving his life to Jesus. He now works to uphold the effective running of Fusion as an organisation and bringing other students this same new life that Rich found through his church.
Elinor Luncan

Elinor Luncan

Creative Development Manager
Elinor was involved in student mission through her degree in York and loves pointing people towards Jesus. She now supports Luke and the Fusion team to increase their capacity as they serve students and the local church.
Rob Colwell

Rob Colwell

Evangelism Team Leader

Rob serves as Evangelism Team Lead at Fusion and is passionate about seeing students encounter Jesus and be transformed by Holy Spirit. He is expectant to see a generation raised up to know, follow, and proclaim Christ across the nation. Come and be part of #teamrob

Louise Barclay Johnson

Louise Barclay Johnson

Student Mission Coach

Louise has worked with students in the UK and Europe in churches and doing campus ministry. She then went on to train as a specialist coach in tertiary education. As part of the Coaching team, she loves seeing church leaders, student workers and students find mission tools, strategies and visions to welcome the student generation home to Jesus.

Ruby Johnston

Ruby Johnston

Church Relations Developer
Since becoming a Christian Ruby has always loved sharing the Good News. Now studying at university, she is incredibly passionate about reaching the unreached. She loves seeing God work miracles in her community and is always looking for an opportunity to join in with God's heart of evangelism.
Josh Hayward

Josh Hayward

Student Mission Coach

Josh is committed to helping students come to know Jesus—His grace, compassion, and mission. He’s excited to invite and equip them to take part in God’s kingdom work, encouraging and supporting both students and student leaders to make disciples that make disciples.

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Amber Simic

Evangelism Developer

Amber couldn’t be more excited to empower and release students across the UK into effective evangelism. She’s deeply passionate about seeing students encounter Jesus and be transformed through prayer to become catalysts for mission on their campuses, in their churches, and beyond.

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Cerys Samuel

Evangelism Developer

Cerys is passionate about her generation being impacted by the love and good news of Jesus. She loves to see students transformed by worship and has pioneered the gathering of churches and students to create a culture of belonging during her time at Royal Holloway University. She is now a Part-Time Student Leader and Worship Coordinator in a local church and is excited about evangelism at Fusion.

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Rabbi Yamulamba

Church Relations Developer

Rabbi is passionate about helping students find a home in the local church. After reconnecting with church at university, he quickly became part of the student community. He grew in his faith and found a real sense of belonging. He is excited to help other students experience the same journey. Rabbi longs to see students build meaningful relationships, encounter Jesus, and discover a home in the local church.

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Nathan Moughtin

Evangelism Developer

Experiencing the openness and positive response to sharing his faith at University, Nathan felt called to pursue student mission as a full-time evangelist. Passionate about seeing students encounter Jesus and experience the transformational power of the Holy Spirit, he is excited to see lives changed through Campus outreach, Alpha courses, and Creative Evangelism. Drawing on his background in Mechanical Engineering, Nathan also enjoys exploring how science points towards and affirms the Christian faith.

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Jael Veen

Church Relations Developer

Jael loves coming alongside churches in reaching students with the gospel. Growing up in Germany and later serving with a mission organisation gave her a heart for outreach and evangelism, and a vision for local churches and mission movements partnering together to reach the next generation of students.

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Rachel Hogue

Student Mission Coach

Rachel came to the UK as a student, and since then has worked to assist student work at her local church and now equips student workers through Fusion. Her heart is to see students find a home in the local church and to be empowered in their walk with Christ!

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Fusión España fortalece tu iglesia con las herramientas y la confianza necesarias para amar, alcanzar y discipular a los universitarios.

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There are over 18 million college students in the US. It’s time to invite them to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church.

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We equip churches across Scotland to reach and disciple students, so that together we can see each generation of students love Jesus, both now and for the rest of their lives.

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