Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship

Universities And Colleges Christian Fellowship

Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) is a UK-based charity that was originally founded in 1928 as the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions. UCCF's dual aims are:

  1. To advance the evangelical Christian faith amongst students, graduates and former members of universities; and
  2. To promote biblical scholarship and research.

To achieve its aims, UCCF undertakes three main areas of activity:

  1. Encouraging and supporting leaders of affiliated Christian Unions (CUs) throughout the UK to engage in evangelism and help Christian students grow in their faith.
  2. Publishing and distributing a wide range of Christian resources through its Inter-Varsity Press (IVP) subsidiary, based in Nottingham (not to be confused with the US-based InterVarsity Press).
  3. Supporting biblical research, mostly at postgraduate level.

There are around 300 Christian Unions in the UK at present, with a membership of approximately 10,000–15,000, providing opportunities for fellowship, bible study and evangelism.

UCCF employs about 80 staff, plus a further 80 or so "Relay Workers" on a one-year training programme. Many of these staff are graduates who were involved in the CU as undergraduates. They support the student Christian Unions with training, advice and materials.

Read more about Universities And Colleges Christian Fellowship:  History, Objectives, Doctrinal Basis

Famous quotes containing the words universities and, universities, colleges, christian and/or fellowship:

    “In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity—or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity—by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”
    —A.N. (Andrew Norman)

    “... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.”
    —Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)

    “I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner’s free will in an embattled circle.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    “And sometimes I remember days of old
    When fellowship seemed not so far to seek,
    And all the world and I seemed much less cold,
    And at the rainbow’s foot lay surely gold,
    And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)