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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
As a continuation from yesterday, we are inserting quotes taken from ONLINE magazine* about the concept of "Discipling Nations."
"Sometimes when I speak with godly, sincere Christians about changing a culture they say, 'Impossible. It can't be done.' Those were the same words spoken to Nehemiah [when he returned to rebuild Jerusalem]. Do we really believe the nations can be changed? The world thinks that we are spitting against the wind, that doing good is a lost cause because the world is degenerating to destruction anyway. It's not true! The blood of Jesus is available to restore anything that is redeemable." Tom Marshall, Author and Teacher
"Dallas has a higher percentage of born-again believers than any city in America, yet statistically it has as many social problems as other cities. Likewise, in southern Africa Christianity is spreading faster than any place on earth, but the social structures of the nations there are disintegrating. We must address this paradox. If the gospel we preach is to be relevant, it must not only transform a person's spiritual condition, but then through their lives begin transforming the society in which they live." Landa Cope, founding Dean, College of Communications, University of the Nations
*ONLINE magazine, published by the University of the Nations, Kona campus, is now called TRANSFORMATIONS. For more information go to www.uofnkona.edu
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The greatest discovery
2 Kings 22:8
The year was 622 B.C. A huge shift in the world’s balance of powers was in the making as Babylon began challenging the powerful empire of the Assyrians, Jerusalem was undoubtedly awash with rumors of war and political upheaval. Yet in the midst of this terrible time, Judah’s 26-year-old King Josiah learned of a discovery that suddenly outshone all other concerns of the day. A temple repair crew had found a copy of the scroll of Deuteronomy. The power of this treasured book soon became known. For when it was publicly read, revival broke out in the land.
Many of us secretly dream of making a great discovery. We want to find something that will improve out lives and the lives of our neighbors. Yet we often overlook the world’s greatest source of treasure—the Bible. Studying the Word of God today can lead to some of the most exciting discoveries imaginable.
Set for yourself a monthly goal of Bible reading. Keep a log of your discoveries.
For further study: 2 Chron. 17:9; Neh. 8:2-6; 1 Tim. 4:13-15
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