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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—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)