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Revision as of 09:47, 12 August 2009
Contents
Title
- WSCF Asia-Pacific
- World Student Christian Federation Asia-Pacific Region
WSCF Asia-Pacific
- The World Student Christian Federation Asia-Pacific Region (WSCF AP) is part of WSCF’s global fellowship of Christian students. We organise conferences, training events and solidarity activities. WSCF Asia-Pacific currently has a membership of 17 national Student Christian Movements (SCMs).
- The aims of the WSCF AP can be summarised in the words of Ahn Jae-Woong, a former Regional Secretary:
- To train and nurture members to become “academically advanced as students, theologically equipped as Christians, and ecumenically oriented as church-related persons.” To fulfill this, the WSCF AP carries out a wide range of programmes based on assessed needs of member movements and the current social realities. read on
WSCF Inter-Regional Office
- The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) is a global federation of student Christian groups. WSCF is ecumenical, welcoming people from all Christian traditions and encouraging dialogue between students of different traditions. WSCF has members from Protestant, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions and from other faiths.
- The local and national groups that make up the federation are largely known as Student Christian Movements (SCMs). In some cases the youth or student movement of a national church or other ecumenical organisation is a member of the WSCF. While university, polytechnic and other tertiary students make up the bulk of SCM membership, high school students are also involved in some movements.
- Today WSCF has over one hundred affiliated national movements which span the six WSCF regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and North America. read on
Student Christian Movements (SCM) in Asia-Pacific
- The diverse, pluralistic cultures and quest for knowledge and truth has always inspired the birth of new movements in Asia. Since eighteen seventies such a rich context of Asia paved way for the emergence of Student Christian Associations which was in a way preparation for world-wide federation of autonomous and self-determining ecumenical student movements. In this process students and faculty in academic community pioneered modern missionary and ecumenical movement which gave birth to Student Christian Movement (SCM) in Asia.
- In fact, SCM roots were emerged out of a genuine quest and a divine vision of few dedicated university students who started World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) which became a federation of national SCMs on 17 August 1895, in the ancient royal castle of Vadstena, Sweden. J. R. Mott (USA) and Karl Fries (Sweden) were the key founding members of WSCF with the vision and mission of “the evangelisation of the world in this generation”. Mott travelled throughout Asia subsequent two decades to start SCMs. Much of the subsequent work of establishing and liking SCMs was done with the assistance of Young Men’s Christian Association.
- During 1950’s the Student Christian Movement was split between a group emphasising personal salvation and evangelism and one which laid a stronger emphasis on a social gospel and the openness of ecumenism. This caused a marked decline in membership in many movements. The movement in many countries committed to prepare ecumenical leadership through empowerment for the transformation of the society. In this process some SCMs took even radical approach and others were influenced by liberation, feminist, ecological and contextual theologies. read on
