Fusion in a World of Fission

Can comparing these two processes, fusion and fission, provide any spiritual parallels for the church? Fission generates huge amounts of power through division, but it also creates hazardous waste. Fusion, although far more difficult to accomplish, creates even more energy through unification – this time without the toxic biproducts. In June of 2022, just a few months prior to the first successful nuclear fusion test, our local church conducted its own experiment in the power of spiritual fusion. On Sunday, June 5, 2022, Parker Ford Church (historically a Church of the Brethren congregation) officially merged with Daybreak Community Church (a Brethren in Christ congregation) and NorthPointe Community Church (a Southern Baptist church plant).