Description
The Sydney University Evangelical Union is a registered student society of the University of Sydney, comprising an estimated 600 Christian students, making it one of the largest registered clubs and societies of the Sydney University Union. It is led by an elected student executive consisting of President, male and female vice-presidents, secretary and treasurer. They are elected annually at the September AGM.
The executive meet weekly with two senior staff members from the EU Graduates Fund (the body responsible for employing staff to work in partnership with the EU). This meeting of students and staff is called the SMEAS - Special Meeting of Executive And Staff - and is, according to the standing orders of the EU:
to assess the state of the SUEU and to create and implement strategies to achieve the Objects with the approval of the General Council and with the assistance of Faculty Groups and Specialist Committees.
The EU is governed by the General Committee. This is made up of the student executive, a male and female faculty leaders (who represent the EU's 11 faculties and in turn lead committees to run ministry in their faculty) and senior students appointed by the General Committee to run activities such as Public Meetings, Annual Conference and the I.T. team.
Activities include sermons in Public Meetings, faculty based small group bible studies, prayer meetings, several conferences including Annual Conference and Equip, along with mission trips. Most of these activities are organized by specialist teams which are led by Senior Students appointed by General Committee. The specialist teams are also known as Student-Staff teams as they are made up of both students and staff. The EU regularly runs events designed to attract new members, and in 2008 the EU hosted a campus-wide festival, with scores of events taking place throughout the university
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