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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.
Pippa Elmes

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.                     
Rachel Sadler

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.
Aaron Nayagam

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

Partnership Team 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

Partnership Developer (Funding Lead)

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!

Mads Brown

Mads Brown

Partnership 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.

Hope Prestwich

Hope Prestwich

Social Media Content Creator
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.
Peter Bolton

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.

Josh Vickers-Smith

Josh Vickers-Smith

Partnership 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.
David Jennings

David Jennings

Student Mission Coach

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 have a healthy, mission-focused culture across Fusion in our people, performance and strategy.
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

Executive Assistant
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

Partnership Developer

Rob is passionate about students finding faith as he saw many come to know Jesus whilst at Loughborough University. His energy, charisma and faithful expectation bring a further evangelistic edge to the Partnership Team.

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.

Chizi Phiri

Chizi Phiri

Marketing and Campaigns Lead
Chizi's experience with her student worker at University showed her the importance of discipleship and student ministry. After spending five years working in the private sector, Chizi felt a clear call to mission and discipleship. She is passionate about using her skills in Marketing and Communications to help students know Jesus and find their place in the local church and in His kingdom.
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Kenneth Sam

Partnership Developer

Ken grew up in Birmingham but currently lives in London, helping reach students in the city and all across the UK, so that they will know the love of Jesus, identity, belonging and purpose in Jesus Christ. Ken is passionate about sharing the life that Jesus called him into in his final year of university. God met him in his university room where he was able to know of his Love even in his sin and shame. 

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