Our outreach in July takes place in South Philly where we will be hosting an open-door coffeehouse. We encourage you to help us with setting up, meeting & greeting, and sharing the Gospel with this community.

If you have further questions, email Carol at carol@fusion316.org.

Churches from all over Philly and New York are getting together to display their best talent! If you’ve got a voice, we want you to rep’ your church! Five judges from various churches in the city will pick the top talent and prizes will be distributed. If you want to sign up email Sarah – sarah@fusion316.org.

Join us on June 19th at 315 E. Hunting Park Ave, Philadelphia, PA. Doors open at 6:30PM. 

Anyone else – come out and support your church! The church group with the largest turnout ALL get a prize. Admission is $5 and food will be available. If you arrive before 7:15pm, admission is $3! You don’t want to miss out on this event!

All proceeds go to our upcoming summer missions trip. In early August a few dedicated people are traveling to Trinidad and Tobago to work with a local ministry, TTUM, in sharing the gospel. We will be hosting a VBS, visiting prisons, women’s shelters, orphanages and hosting tent meetings. If you are interested in joining our team, send us a message. Even if you can’t go on the trip you can help this amazing effort by donating to the cause. Every bit counts!

Our outreach in May takes place in South Philly where we will be hosting an open-door coffeehouse. We encourage you to help us with setting up, meeting & greeting, and sharing the Gospel with this community.

If you have further questions, email Carol at carol@fusion316.org.

In the past week we’ve launched a new site! We’re really excited by the opportunities it introduces, namely user-submitted content. We really want you to help us build out our content by providing any inspirational/thought-provoking articles or devotionals or even artwork. Pray about it, and if you feel led, email us at info@fusion316.org.

Also – we’re really looking forward to your comments! Even if you don’t feel led to submit an article, we’d love to hear what your response is to what we post on the site.

One last thing, we’re also expanding what you take from the meetings to the web. For all of our Fusion First Friday meetings we are now going to have notes, video and photos from the event. We want this site to be an on-going resource for you, so any ideas you might have will be greatly appreciated.

Have fun browsing the site!

There are nearly 1,500,000 people living in the city of Philadelphia, not including its surrounding towns. Without a doubt, we can make a better effort of sharing the Good News in our city – but it can only happen from us working together.

The coffee was flowing and there was no shortage of donuts and cookies on Friday night as young people from throughout the city came to hang out and hear about ministry opportunities in the area.  Lighthouse, Urban Worship Center Project 215 , HUSH and of course Fusion shared about exciting ways to serve God.  It was amazing to hear about the exciting things that God is doing through these ministries!  We also had a chance to experience the talents of many of the young people in these ministries through songs, rap, videos, etc.  What a great time.  We’ll have to do it again soon!

So many search the world seeking after anything that can satisfy the longing inside of them to be complete, made whole, be happy, to be loved. Many of us are running away from the one true thing that will complete us, many of us are searching for something that cannot be found in an empty world. Our heart aches to know true love and its all encompassing embrace. Discover the difference between love and lust and understand the truly life changing impact of The Great Romance.

NOTES FROM THIS MEETING

Everything God created is meant for good, including sex. God designed people as sexual beings and intended sex to be kept between a husband and his wife. Sex, naturally, is used as a way of procreation, but God’s intention is much deeper. He created sex so a man and his wife could share a spiritual, physical and emotional connection with one another. Sex was created so that a husband and wife would share a profound love for one another.

But once sin entered into the world, the world made sex to be perverted. It’s more common for men and women to randomly “hook up” than to hear of a husband wife enjoy each other’s company.

Satan will present you with a relationship and try to convince you that your situation is love when in reality it is lust. You may not realize it right away, but there will come a point in time when you see that all you have been chasing after is lust, not love. Unmarried people who commit sexual sin consider it “making love,” but all they have really been doing is fulfilling their lustful desires.

Don’t think that you could never become a victim of sexual sin. Even the strongest (Samson) and wisest (Solomon) men fell into sexual temptation. Even a man after God’s own heart (David) was not immune.

What’s the rush? Haven’t you begun to realize that God’s timing is better than any timeline you could create for yourself? Create a list and take time to identify the physical and spiritual characteristics you want in a future spouse. Pray and seek God’s advice. Identify what you want; identify what you need and learn to differentiate between your prince or princess and the posers.

The world is continuously trying to convince us that we need to have a boyfriend or girlfriend, but remember, entering into a relationship too soon and isn’t meant for you can cause terrible damage to your psyche. You are more likely to make bad decisions and have more regrets because you think what you have is love when it is really lust.

Don’t waste your time trying to find Mr. or Miss Right. Spend your time trying to become Mr. or Miss Right. If you do not have a right relationship with Christ, don’t expect to have a right relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend.

Don’t look to drugs, alcohol, sex or relationships to fill the emptiness in your heart. An empty heart must first be filled with Christ in order to understand what true love is. The greatest love that anyone could ever know has concurred hell, death, and the grave to save your soul.

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