Imagine—you’re fifteen years old, clutching a sweat-drenched guitar pick. You’re about to play on a big stage in front of around 500 people. As you stand with your band and choir mates in the darkened stage wing, you feel both dreadfully nervous and excited. You know your performance won’t be perfect—you’ve only been playing guitar for a year—but you’re not alone. As you walk out onto the stage, the lights blind you, and the crowd erupts in cheers. The drummer shakily counts off the first song, and although it takes a second for the band to find its bearing, the whole audience loudly claps and sings along. A rush of adrenaline courses through you, and you allow yourself to rock out, losing yourself in the moment, the music, the energy. Welcome to FUSIONDARY, a music-packed international festival for Fusion choirs and bands from 9 countries across Europe. For many teenagers, the key experience will be when they get to perform with their Fusion group on a large stage in front of hundreds of people, and they are not just any people. They are the world’s most encouraging audience, because they know what it’s like to be nervous—to be performing as an amateur. And they know all the songs. But Fusiondary is much more than concerts. It’s a chance for teenagers to meet new people, get inspired, and learn new things. For some of them, for example our dear group of Ukrainians, it’s a chance to get away from painful circumstances and take a breath of fresh (albeit sometimes rank?) air, to lift their eyes and see the bigger picture of what they get to be a part of through Fusion. For many, it’s an opportunity to hear the Gospel in a new and powerful way, through talks given by speakers who have poured their hearts into preparation and who love these teenagers deeply. We’re praying that many teenagers will have a personal encounter with Jesus through the talks, seminars, labyrinth, worship, meeting with the Support Team, and talking with their local leaders. Somehow music provides a base (bass?) through which God works. Music can seep through those cracks and crannies of our hearts in a profound and mysterious way. Would you take a moment and read these lyrics from one of our Fusiondary songs? And would you pray for deep and beautiful encounters with God’s love for each teenager, as well as each leader that is standing faithfully behind them? If you could only let your guard down If you could learn to trust me somehow I swear that I won’t let you go (Fusiondary will take place in Vsetin, Czech Republic, from April 24th-26th, 2026)