Australian Student Christian Movement - Inauguration

Inauguration

The Australasian Student Christian Union was established at a meeting in Wyselaski Hall, Ormond College, University of Melbourne, in 1896, fourteen years before the 1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference that is commonly considered to have inaugurated the modern ecumenical movement. At the time Australia had only four universities, which were strongly opposed to any religious activities taking place on their secular campuses. Yet those who created the ASCM fervently believed that Christian students could be agents of change in the university, the nation and the world.