Welcome back to Season Two of the podcast! Your Fusion team hosts, Shook and Miriam, kick off the new year with a discussion around how local churches can move beyond seeing students on a Sunday randomly, to inviting, expecting and discipling students in their community.

Plenty of practical equipping in this conversation, AND time still left to get you and your church on the Spring Coaching Community 2026 with the Fusion team and many other local churches.

Registration link here: https://www.fusionusa.org/coaching-community-2026/

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Last episode of the season and this week we are talking all things coming home for the Christmas vacation! Claire and Jeremiah are the other members of the Fusion USA team, and along with Shook, have decades of student ministry experience and learning around navigating returning students during the holidays.

We will all have people in our church families who return to "home" in this season and have very mixed expectations and experiences about this transition. How can we welcome one another? Notice? Ask good questions? Build a sense of belonging even if only seasonally? All this and more on our final episode of 2025!

Connect with Claire and Jeremiah on our website team page: https://www.fusionusa.org/who-we-are/

And on the gram:

Fusion USA

Jeremiah

Claire

Shook

Miriam

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As a special gift this holiday season, we've got an episode stacked full of stories of college students coming to faith daily in the United Kingdom. Get ready for good news overload, as Shook and Miriam can barely stop the string of salvation stories pouring out of Mads and Rob from the Fusion team in England and Wales. This is an episode not to be missed and definitely one to share!

Get more stories from the movement at fusionmovement.org and @hellofusionmovement on instagram.

Follow along with Mads on insta

And Rob on insta too!

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You're going to LOVE this conversation with Jo Saxton, leader, speaker, author... but in this season also staff on a university campus and mom to two college students!

As always, Miriam and Shook are your Fusion team bringing you the chats and stories, check out our other episodes for more hot topics in the world of church and college students.

Find Jo here: https://www.josaxton.com/ and on the socials.

Find the reference to Fusion's prep for college resources here: https://www.fusionusa.org/prep-for-college/

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Join your Fusion team hosts Brandon Shook and Miriam Swanson as they engage in a heartfelt conversation with Kendall McKee and Tre Calvin about cultivating discipleship and mission within college student communities. Discover how friendship and intentionality play a crucial role in spreading the gospel and empowering the next generation of leaders.

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Welcome back to our latest conversation, this time with church leader Pam Tooley. This episode is FULL of stories of how international students can be loved and welcomed by the local church and even come to faith in Jesus during their time on campus. Be encouraged and as always, like, review, subscribe and share to never miss an episode and so more people find the conversations they need too.

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In this episode of the Church and College Students podcast, Fusion team hosts Shook and Miriam along with guest Chris Holguin, discuss the importance of creating a culture of prayer and God's presence within college ministries. They share personal stories and testimonies of how prayer has transformed lives and emphasize the need for young leaders to learn how to pray. Practical steps for cultivating prayer in ministry are provided, along with insights on the role of scripture in prayer and the impact of prayer on college students. The conversation concludes with a heartfelt prayer for the church and a call to embrace the power of prayer in reaching and discipling young adults.

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Calling is such a major topic for college students, but how do we help young adults discover and follow the call of God on their lives?

Listen in to Rich Wilson, as he discusses with Miriam and Shook his own journey of calling, how God's imagination for our lives changes everything, and what to practically do when you feel stuck trying to discern your next steps.

Rich Wilson is the leader of Fusion Movement. He 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.

Check out Rich's book A Call Less Ordinary, released in the US this week, grab your copy from Fusion USA's resource page now.

Thanks for listening in to the podcast. We are here to host conversations to strengthen you and your local church with the tools and confidence to love, reach and disciple college students.

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Get in touch to suggest future conversations we should have on this podcast: hello@fusionusa.org
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Hosting conversations to strengthen you and your local church with the tools and confidence to love, reach and disciple college students.

Connect with us fusionusa.org

Follow us on insta @hellofusionusa

Get in touch to suggest future conversations we should have on this podcast: hello@fusionusa.org

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