the movement begins...

It all started with a question...why don't Apostolic young people get together more? It's like we have this unspoken rule that we can only come together at youth camps and at Atlanta Youth Convention (if you can afford it)! Yes-there may be a few churches who get together for rallies and such, but not often in the Metro-Atlanta area.

So, I figured if I kept waiting on somebody to provide this much needed outlet for our young people, it might never happen. That's when I contacted a young, energetic Youth Pastor named Michael Patterson and pitched the idea of combining our youth groups for a couple of youth services so our young people could get to know "other" young people just like them. We did and the first "combined" youth service we had 103 people show up. NO major announcements. NO official advertising. We told a couple people what we wanted to do and they showed up.

God had dealt with me about the urgency of this event, but not even I was prepared for what would happen. I figured we would have a couple of "combined" serivices in 2007 and then hopefully we could take this idea on tour. My vision at the time was to hit the four corners of Atlanta with this idea of Apostolic Youth Groups coming together for a time of intimate worship, encouragement, and life-change!

This coming together concept gave birth to what I now call fusion_atl. The definition of fusion is a merging of diverse elements into a unified whole; an occurrence that involves the production of a union; the act of fusing (or melting) together.

So, fusion_atl is a merging together of diverse elements (different churches, different styles, different personalities) into a unified whole or union (what Jesus refers to as His BODY)!

fusion_atl is NOT about our individual churches or our individual youth groups with our own identities. fusion_atl is about coming together as the Body of Christ and worshipping the Father in spirit and in truth. It's about real young people who have real struggles fusing together with other young people who are just like them and realizing that they're NOT alone and that God loves them right where they are.

Let me close with this...fusion_atl is NOT about politics or organizations...it's a movement and the movement begins...in 2007!

fusion_atl is coming to a city near you...

Marshall Clack, II
fusion_atl Visionary