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Transforming the world through students
The SMC is a small international network fostering a global movement of university students who are serving Christ's Great Commission through their life-work.
We believe this generation is ready for new ways, new paradigms, and a new heart to make a difference in a world that cries out for mercy, for hope, and for healing. We see student volunteers and mobilizers everywhere. They are the new international community of students and young adults seeking God for justice, for revelation, and for real transformation.
The gospel of Christ is not a private matter. This generation knows that when you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness. (Isaiah 58:10)
Connect here to answer God's call. Tell us your story and sign up for our monthly StudentCall newsletter for global student volunteers.
"It is easy to find professionals who are Christians, but harder to get Christian professionals, who have thought through what they do from a Biblical standpoint, and can articulate that clearly." Dr. Michael Schluter - Jubilee Center, Cambridge.
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Field Ministry Internships
Field Ministry Internships (FMI), a ministry of Youth With A Mission, facilitates practical learning/serving field project opportunities for Christian university students and young adults to re-interpret their course of study/career in the light of Biblical revelation of calling to grasp God's vision for their career and how it relates to the needs of the world, especially issues of global human need. FMI has mobilized 75 Christian student teams (typically teams of 4 to 7 students) from 107 colleges and universities in eight countries to 33 nations since 1986.
The FMI student projects are designed to confront the “giants” of impure water, illiteracy, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and material and spiritual poverty with prayer, training, service, evangelism, and mercy ministries. FMI opportunities are for students and professionals in the fields of Agriculture, Business, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Art, Journalism, International Affairs, Medical, IT & Social Work.
You decide your most appropriate contribution. You will pray, serve, and build relationships with the host community and project staff. You will collaborate with the long-term field project leaders to assess the needs of the community through interviews, probing questions, surveys, and maps. Your key contribution is the final written project report in which you research and present a proposal to complement or supplement the existing field project in the host community.
By serving projects with Field Ministry Internships in the field of your studies on a summer team, you are going deeper into the call of God. You are offering more than a career, you are offering your life-work as worship.
Field Ministry Internships summer outreach teams, are for students and professionals to integrate studies with a service project abroad. Participants form small teams (4 to7 people)for these 8-week internships, while young adult graduates may join teams for just 2 weeks or more weeks.
New opportunities are available now. If you wish to form a small team, or simply volunteer to serve alongside a long term team, contact us. We'll send you details.
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Discipling Nations Quotes
This is the third is a series of 3 sets of quotes on the topic of "Discipling Nations" taken from the ONLINE magazine*
"When I was on a field trip to Israel some years ago, I was fascinated by the sight of a forest in the desert. My professor said the Jews planted the trees when they returned to Israel. Then he gave an insight I'll never forget. He said, 'Darrow, there are two different visions for this land. The Arabs who lived here believed that Allah had put a curse on the land and that there was nothing they could do about it. The Jews believed the land could once again flow with milk and honey, and they began planting.'
These two peoples had the same natural resources, but their vision determined how they used the land. Our challenge is to find out how we can help communities and nations see themselves with God's eyes." Darrow Miller, U of N resource teacher and Vice President of Food for the Hungry.
"The church has had a tendency to drift toward two extremes. One is a 'social gospel' where everything becomes a humanitarian effort; the other is an 'other-world gospel' which seeks to get people saved but makes little effort to get involved with the daily needs of the people ... We do not have to fall into either extreme. We must get people saved and teach them His ways. The gospel that Jesus preached and taught is by its very nature holistic." -- Bob Fitts, Sr., pastor
*quarterly publications of the University of the Nations, Kona campus. Now called TRANSFORMATIONS. Go to www.uofnkona.edu for more information.
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Our greatest resource
2 Chron. 17:9
The young man carefully crated his extensive library of theological books for the voyage to West Africa. He had spend years collecting them, knowing that they would help him in his missions work there. But as he sailed to Africa, a raging storm lashed the ship and washed his precious books overboard. Al he had left was his Bible. Through bitter tears, he wondered how he could go on as a missionary with the Bible as his sole resource.
What this young man didn’t realize was that the Scriptures are the most valuable resources of all! The political and religious leaders of Jehoshaphat’s day did not mourn because they only had the Bible when they went out to teach the people of Judah. On the contrary, they considered it their greatest treasure, and as they taught from it they saw their generation transformed. They considered it an honor to take the Word of God to those who otherwise would not have known the Scriptures.
To which places do you take your Bible? Is it your most valuable resource?
Consider: Job 23:11-12; Psalm 19:7-11; Jer. 15:16
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