Life and Mission

The special endeavour of the movement at the moment and for the next few years is a heavy study and teaching programme on "the life and mission of the Church," of which the recent Conference of the N.Z.S.C.M. was a part.

The programme has been undertaken by the World Student Christian Federation and its members because there is a growing awareness among Church leaders and thinkers that the Church's outreach to the world—her mission—has been frustrated by changing circumstances and hence to some extent neglected.

There is a clear need for a new kind of mission based on a deeper understanding of the world and this can only be reached by serious study in a context of evangelistic involvement. In the university situation the S.C.M. has tended to follow the general pattern in the Church and the need to concentrate again on mission is especially clear.