Student Volunteer Movement

Student Volunteer Movement

The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization founded in 1886 that sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service abroad. It also sought to publicize and encourage the missionary enterprise in general. Arthur Tappan Pierson was the primary early leader.

Read more about Student Volunteer Movement:  Origins and Consolidation 1886-1891, Continued Growth, Facing A New Era, Conservative and Liberal Confusion, Redefining The Movement, Comparison To Other Christian Student Movements, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Denominational Missions Programs, Missions Theory, Post World War II

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