Dan Gould

Tag: Fusion Student MInistry

  • Weekend Review – B2S Retreat

    What a great Weekend!  Yes we had some challenges but everything seemed to work out.  Ken Freeman and Nick Thurmond kicked us off in a great way.  Here are some Highlights:

    • 6 student accepted Christ Friday Night
    • Ken Freeman really did a great job connecting with all of us and challenging us to be evangelistic.
    • Nick Thurmond led us in great worship.
    • Host Homes – Awesome!  This weekend couldn’t have happened with out them
    • Small Group Teams – Coaches and Small Groups leaders did an awesome job on not a lot of sleep!
    • Great discussions in homes and then at the church
    • The Game – fun, tiring, stressful, glad to see the 11th and 12th graders win finally!
    • The Food – Lasagna for dinner Saturday and a full breakfast Sunday Morning, how can you go wrong with that.
    • The first – Tyler leading worship for the first time with our group, Josh and Lisa both speaking for the first time to a large group!!  Major highlights for me
      • Don’t forget the Friendship Evangelism Challenge!!!
        • Reveal you are a Christian!
        • Extend and invitation to church or event!
        • Ask if you can share your story!
        • Communicate how/why you became a Christian!
        • Help them to know Christ!
    • Lastly, seeing the student building full!

    This truly was a great weekend but lets not let it be something we look back to as and event but as a start to a great journey of reaching our friends for Christ!

  • Mexico Mission Trip Pictures

    Well, it’s been over a month but here they are . . . Mexico Mission Trip Pictures from Fusion.  I was hounded this weekend at our B2S Retreat, which I will blog about tomorrow after I get some rest, to post these pictures.  I will tell you this much about the B2S Retreat, it was an awesome weekend!!!!!
    Enjoy the pics!

  • Send Me, I’ll Go – IS 6:8

    Well this week the Student Staff has been so busy getting ready for the B2S Retreat!!!  We have doubled our numbers from last year!!!  So Awesome!!!  I am really excited to see what happens this weekend.  Ken Freeman and Nick Thurmond will be here to kick it off tomorrow night.  The whole weekend we are going to be talking about Evangelism which is a really big church word that means reaching others for Christ.  This weekend has the potential to change the face of our student ministry.  I have been praying that students and leaders would have a passion not to sit quietly watching opportunities pass them by, but to be ready and willing to share when the opportunity arises.  I can’t wait to see this place packed this weekend!!!!

  • Not Just Another Sunday


    Well today was the day for Not Just Another Sunday. An idea that came up at a service planning meeting a couple of months ago, which would bring all the ministries together for one service 2 times on this day August 30th. I was pumped!!!!

    Our Student Band got to lead the adults in a worship song, others performed a skit highlighting Son City, and I get to play Sweet Child of Mine (in church) on Guitar Hero! By the way, I really did a poor job! 1. I don’t own Guitar Hero myself, 2. The calibration was off, meaning the video and the audio didn’t match. Regardless, Mike would have beat me anyways! However, did I mention I played Sweet Child of Mine in a church service? That’s still kinda weird to me!

    Anyhow it was an awesome service and fun to be a part of! Special thanks to all that helped make the service what it was today!

    Here is a pic of our students practicing for this Sunday! They rocked it and I think some of our adults were surprised by how good they are!

    If you attended the service, what did you think? What did you like the best? What could we have added or done differently?

  • Weekend Rewind!

    What a great day at Fusion!!  We said goodbye to Josh, who has served faithfully as our Student Worship Leader, and welcomed Tyler in as the New Student Worship Coordinator.  Josh is leaving for college.  We are sad to see him go, but excited to see how God uses him.  Tyler, is filling a brand new position at Fusion that we are very excited about.  He and His wife Jen are going to be great additions to our Student Ministry.

    Today worship was great!  Students engaged and we had to bring out more chairs!  We ended our talk on being an Influencer. Here are the Student Notes:

    THE EPISTLE!
    3rd John
    August 24th, 2008

    “Dear friend, don’t let this bad example influence you. Follow only what is good. Remember that those who do good prove that they are God’s children, and those who do evil prove that they do not know God.” 3rd John 11 (NLT)

    YOU ARE AN INFLUENCER?
    But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 (NLT)<!–

    1. LOCALLY!

    A. In Your FAMILY!
    B.    In your FRIENDSHIPS!
    C.    In your STUDENT MINISTRY!
    D.    In your SCHOOL!
    E.    In your JOB!

    2.    NATIONALY and even INERNATIONALLY!

    A. Go on a MISSION TRIP!
    B.    SPONSOR A CHILD!
    C.    FACEBOOK or MYSPACE!
    D.    BLOG!

    “Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12 (NLT)

    “Live wisely among those who are not believers, and make the most of every opportunity.” Colossians 4:5 (NLT)

    YOUR PRAYER

    My favorite part was seeing student open to the idea of using technology to influence the world!  I think we have several of our students stating new blogs today . . . Very Exciting!!!!

    We followed up the service with a Baptism Celebration!  Congrats to Paul and James who both were Baptised today!

    Here is the last song we sang today.  To be honest, we captured a moment especially in HS and a tear rolled down my face as HS Students engaged in worship!!!!

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  • Small Groups

    Believe it or not . . . in fact ready or not, they will be here before we know it. Out of all the years of ministry I have been a part of, I have never been more excited for small groups to start as I am this year. I really feel like this year is going to be an amazing year at Fusion! All of our groups are meeting in homes and each home consists of a Coach, 1 guy and 1 girl Small Group Leader, 1 guy HS Intern 1 girl HS Intern, (interns are HS students) and of coarse students. Here is our calendar and the curriculum each small group will use this school year!

    small-group-calendar-08-092

    I am still thinking through this concept that I pitched to a community of youth workers when it comes to small groups. You can read it HERE! I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas!!!!

  • New Small Group Ads

    Here are the 2008 Small Group Ads for Fusion Student Ministry: