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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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How YWAM Started
When Youth With A Mission was founded in 1960,in North America, the focus was to get youth into short-term mission work, to give them opportunities to reach out in Jesus' name.
YWAM's founder, Loren Cunningham, believed that years of theological training did not necessarily qualify people to serve the Lord effectively, nor should they be a requirement before encouraging young people to pass on the love of Christ.
At the time, this was considered revolutionary. The idea of having relatively untrained young people doing missions was generally not considered, and was even seen as potentially disastrous.
However, over the years, while mistakes have of course been made, the concept of short-term missions has added huge numbers of people to the task of world evangelization. It is now accepted as a valid contribution to mission work.
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Love chooses the good
1 John 4:8-10
"God is love" may be the most reassuring sentence ever uttered. But what does it mean? Is God made of love? No, because love is not a substance. Neither did he create love. The uncreated, unchangeable God has always known love and has always loved. There has never been a time when the Father did not love Jesus or Jesus did not love the Holy Spirit. God did not invent love. He is love, in all its dimensions.
Love involves complete interaction between personalities---their intellects, emotions and wills. Perhaps the best way to define love is that it always chooses the highest good--for God, for others and for oneself.
In Jesus Christ, especially in his death, God has demonstrated that he will always choose the highest good for us, even when it involves his own unspeakable suffering. Of the many things we can be thankful for, the first must be that God loves us---with his intellect, his will and his emotions.
Have you thanked God today for the fact that he is always loving?
Love Lights: Deut. 10:15; Lam. 3:22-23; John 13:1-15; Romans 5:8
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