The Legacy Podcast from Fusion is about lives well-lived and a long obedience in the same direction. It is all about the long-term impact of student mission. When a student gives their life to Jesus, we join in with Heaven's celebration. But the story doesn't stop there. That fantastic moment of decision is the beginning of a complex, glorious story that goes on to influence the lives of thousands of other people.
In each episode, Luke Smith interviews someone who's lived as a disciple of Jesus for a long time. They might have become a Christian as a student or they might have worked with students for a long time. Each one will shed light on the rich tapestry of student mission.
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The Legacy Podcast from Fusion is about lives well-lived and a long obedience in the same direction. It is all about the long-term impact of student mission. When a student gives their life to Jesus, we join in with Heaven's celebration. But the story doesn't stop there. That fantastic moment of decision is the beginning of a complex, glorious story that goes on to influence the lives of thousands of other people.
In each episode, Luke Smith interviews someone who's lived as a disciple of Jesus for a long time. They might have become a Christian as a student or they might have worked with students for a long time. Each one will shed light on the rich tapestry of student mission.
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Jon is a powerhouse of a pastor and church planter. He leads the GEM international team following a call from God to send missionaries to Europe, but his story spans the London Olympics, a gold mine, and playing football around the world. Jon reflects on a life lived split between the UK and USA, whilst being all in for Jesus. Listen now and your faith will be raised!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Laura absolutely loves the word of God. She loves reading it, and has given her life to teaching it and raising others to teach it. She runs the Prisca preaching hub alongside leading a church with her family. In this episode, she reflects on the legacy of God moving through the generations of her family and what it was like to bump into Richard Dawkins in the corridor.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Pete Hughes is constantly chasing after joy. He looks back over his early adult life, telling extraordinary tales of pioneering and provision. From falling in love with the church at university, to planting KXC, to radically encountering the love of the Father, Pete reflects with wisdom and honesty. Your faith will increase listening to his stories.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Connie Taylor has been part of two youth revivals and her reflections on a life chasing after the adventure of God are invaluable. She looks back on a life of unstoppable evangelism and mission with students. She has also memorised entire books of the Bible. Prepare for some seriously high energy conversation.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Yinka is a man on fire for God. Born in Scotland, raised in Nigeria, and then born again back in Scotland at university, he has pioneered new church plants, led missional movements and now leads The Gate church in Reading. In this latest episode, Yinka challenges us to think about the limitless power we have access to through Jesus - listen in to find out how this changes everything!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Liz Bewley leads One Life and is all about raising the next generation of leaders to be life long disciples that will be the agents of change in the coming years. She is full of testimonies, hope and encouragement. University was a formative time for Liz in her faith and reflects here on the difference it made.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Al Gordon is a creative and pioneering leader who says he would be dead if it wasn't for Jesus. He is seeing awakening happen in his church (SAINT) and the surrounding community and he is a master craftsman at releasing leaders to reach their own generation. The stories he shares in this podcast will lift your spirit.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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More about The Legacy Podcast: https://www.fusionmovement.org/legacy
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John Coles is full of wisdom, gentleness and kindness. Having been discipled as a student, he learned how to disciple others and has been doing that ever since. In ministry, he led churches and led New Wine. He has always been deeply affected by the personal encounter with Jesus that he experienced through the Holy Spirit in the 80s. In this episode John reflects on some lessons of leadership and what has kept him passionate throughout hard times.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Mark gave his life to Jesus in the last few weeks of university. A career in marketing followed, during which he experienced a call to help every person find Jesus in their every day work. Mark is as sharp as a razor! His insight and articulation of both the gospel and this cultural moment is stellar.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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More about The Legacy Podcast: https://www.fusionmovement.org/legacy
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Jo is a powerful and funny woman of God. Her faith and ability to communicate Jesus is as infectious as her laugh. She has preached, led, mentored, coached and inspired countless disciples since encountering Jesus in a strong way at university in Sheffield in the 1990s. She now lives in Minneapolis and works at a Christian university. You will be challenged and moved as you listen to her story.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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More about The Legacy Podcast: https://www.fusionmovement.org/legacy
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Jasper is a man fully expectant of God. He has seen God move in the unlikeliest of places, from late night pub lock ins to the hospital bed of his father. Jasper has a heart to see young people saved and has worked in youth ministries for over twenty years. He now leads Christ In Youth, still on the look out for, as he calls them, the 'last minute ones'. Listen to both his story and the stories of those whose lives have crossed over with his on this latest episode.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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More about The Legacy Podcast: https://www.fusionmovement.org/legacy
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Miriam is an irrepressibly hope-filled evangelist and one of the most articulate communicators of the gospel that you will come across. She arrived at university in York in 2008 and has been sharing Jesus with students ever since. She has been part of the Fusion family since 2011 and pioneered the plant to USA, which she continues to lead. In this episode, she shares her heart for every student and her passion for the local church and it is the commitment to bring these two together which is her life's work. Your faith will increase as you listen to her words!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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More about The Legacy Podcast: https://www.fusionmovement.org/legacy
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Ness is a life-long learner who has invested her life in Jesus and growing others around her. She arrived at Loughborough University in 1990 at the start of the boom of student mission. In her first term, the number of Christians in her halls trebled. She has been leading students to Jesus ever since through her church plant, Open Heaven, in Loughborough. Her story is a testament to the abundant blessing of God - you'll be inspired as you listen along!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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More about The Legacy Podcast: https://www.fusionmovement.org/legacy
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Aaron Nayagam is the voice of one crying in the wilderness. He is a powerful evangelist, networker and gospel communicator. He is Fusion UK's Head of Mission and in this episode, he shares with us the legacies left in his life that have led up to his commitment to contend for this generation and to stand at the forefront of student mission. Aaron is calling the church to raise up individuals who are disciples for life - starting as young as possible! Listen along and be encouraged by stories of radical encounters with Jesus and God's steady faithful provision!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Christa is a ridiculous adventurer - she grew up smuggling Bibles in Saudi Arabia and now leads the charge pioneering student mission as she heads up Fusion Scotland. Here, Christa shares with us her own university experience alongside the stories she has collected from her years of serving the student mission movement. We are incredibly blessed to have her in the Fusion family and pray that her story will bless you through this episode.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Chloe Swart is the National Director of Alpha UK. She leads at Cornerstone Swansea where they pray for and see God do miracles every day. This was the story of her university years and the focus of her PHD. She communicates the simplicity of the gospel so well. Your faith will be increased as you hear Chloe speak.
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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John McGinley is a big picture visionary. At university, he committed to spending an hour every morning at 7am in prayer as he shared the gospel with those around him. Today, he leads a missional movement that gathers and sends tens of thousands of young people and catalyses church planting in the UK. He still prays at 7am each morning. Here, John shares his vision for the raising up of a generation of young people and the need for reformation in the church to support this. If that isn't enough, he also shares what it was like to sell swimwear to Lady Diana!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Kate Coleman has many firsts tucked under her belt: she is the first black woman baptist minister in the UK, first black woman chair of the Evangelical Alliance and the first in her family to become a Christian. Completely unaware that she was surrounded by Christians at University, God has put a remarkable call on her life since she decided to follow Him. In this episode, she discusses topics from grappling with the politics of women in leadership to her realisation that God is more interested in who we are becoming than who we already are. Join us as she even gives us a sneak preview in her not first, but second, book!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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Lucy Peppiatt is a self-proclaimed Bible nerd and intellectual powerhouse of a leader. After living in a leftwing, hippie culture at university, she encountered the "revolution" of Jesus on a holiday in Kenya, starting a journey that would span continents. After six years in Zimbabwe, she now leads WTC, teaching her students to blend academic learning with life in the Spirit. Lucy shares with us her wisdom on how to keep our theological feet on the floor through living in the everyday with God. Go deeper with her insight through our latest episode!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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James Aladiran is a wild man of God. He is disinterested in the ways of the world and captivated by the ways of the Holy Spirit. When he was a student, he had an encounter with God that changed him forever. He leads Prayer Storm and lives in Manchester. This podcast contains content that may challenge you to surrender everything to God!
More about Fusion: Every student should have an opportunity to find hope in Jesus and home in the local church. Fusion strengthens your church with the tools and confidence to love, welcome and disciple students.
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