Purpose
The mission and vision statement of the WSCF is:
- The WSCF is a global community of Student Christian Movements committed to dialogue, ecumenism, social justice and peace.
- the mission is to empower students in critical thinking and constructive transformation of our world by being a space for:
- Prayer and celebration
- Theological reflection
- Study and analysis of social and cultural processes and
- Solidarity and action across boundaries of culture, gender and ethnicity.
- Through the work of the Holy Spirit, the WSCF is called to be a prophetic witness in church and society. This vision is nurtured by a radical hope for God’s Reign in history.
Its founder, the Methodist layman and YMCA worker John R. Mott (1865-1955), promoted Protestant unity in 1895 as an organization joining youth from all Protestant churches to dedicate themselves to the 'evangelization of the world in this generation.'"
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Famous quotes containing the word purpose:
“And is the price for your acceptance for me to conform? To be as you would want me to be?... You must accept me as I am. Do not question.... If my behavior seems different perhaps it is because it serves a higher purpose than to find acceptance in this dull and useless world.”
—Pat Fielder, and Paul Landres. Dracula (Francis Lederer)
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—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing—that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)