About SMC  
 
The Student Mobilization Centre is a ministry of Youth With A Mission. Part of YWAM's University of the Nations, our purpose is to serve student organizations, mission agencies and local churches by helping ignite a new international, broad-structured, and inclusive student mobilization movement like that of the Student Volunteer Movement a century ago. In addition, the Student Mobilization Centre provides models for biblical worldview learning and serving toward the completion of the task of world evangelization.

Only a part of what God is doing in our generation, we believe emphasizing university student mobilization will help direct the necessary resources and personnel toward frontier missions and integrated development projects engaged in discipling the nations according to the Gospel of Matthew 28:18-19.

The purpose of the U of N Student Mobilization Centre is to facilitate practical opportunities for university students to integrate into working cross-cultural ministry situations related to their fields of study. The distinctive of these programs is the integration of the theoretical with the practical.

The U of N Student Mobilization Centre is an international network. The broader purpose of the Centre is to call the "university" back to it's original call in God; to raise a prophetic voice that will both mobilize students into missions and reform the institutions of higher learning. If we are to accomplish the task of world evangelization, we must do it through the university. The task will be accomplished by a "thinking", a "doing", and a "feeling" people.

The message we carry is for the students and faculty of every university. The university has been gifted to humanity to teach the nations. YWAM will not disciple the nations alone. The Uof N will not disciple the nations alone. We are taking up a torch handed down through history.

We're standing on the shoulders of giants of the faith, many of whom gave their lives for the revelation we are so excited about today. And if through our lives the gospel of the kingdom is..

Sought,

And caught,

And taught,

And bought, like the pearl of great price, and a new mobilization movement of students truly pray,

Then we, though very small, will bring teaching to the nations, that will be a leaven of the kingdom that will change the whole lump.

We will indeed, by the grace of God, change the world.

One important part of the world is the powerful institution we call the university.

This university student outreach alternative called Field Ministry Internships is a learning / serving internship whereby students gain academic credit integrating their field of study into a mission context serving one of our many integrated development and church planting field projects. These university students come to us from universities other than YWAM's U of N.

Students from 100 colleges/universities in eight nations have participated with FMI. I've learned something you need to know. Honest followers of Christ can lead students from Harvard and Yale and Princeton. YWAM's U of N degree students can lead these internship teams. YWAM has something they want.

Mobilizing university students is not new for YWAM or for missions. But yesterday's answers are not adequate for today's problems. Not only do we need to mobilize our generation, but we need to mobilize a new generation of students who will learn to think biblically and who will preach and practice the gospel of the kingdom with relevance to the issues and needs of today.

John Henry
Internation Centre Director
UofN Student Mobilization Centre