| 8 September 2010 |
| Regional network of SCM senior friends to be launched |
HONG KONG (APEN) – Plans are afoot to build a network of Student Christian Movement (SCM) senior friends located in several Asian and Pacific countries.
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The World Student Christian Federation -Asia Pacific Region (WSCF-AP), based here, is taking the lead in connecting the SCM senior friends, who have been playing an important role in the life and mission of the national SCMs in the region.
Ms Necta Rocas, executive secretary of the WSCF-AP told APENews that the Network of Student Christian Movement Senior Friends in Asia-Pacific (NESCAP) will be formally launched at a consultation of mainly SCM senior friends on 19 April 2010 in Kuala Lumpur.
The senior friends have been “great source of support, guidance and motivation to the SCMs in the region,” said a concept paper from the WSCF-AP.
The WSCF is a global community of Student Christian Movements committed to ecumenism, social change, justice and peace.
Its mission is to empower students in critical thinking and constructive transformation of the world by providing a space for prayer, theological reflections, study and analysis of social and cultural processes and solidarity and action across boundaries of culture, gender and ethnicity.
The WSCF-AP, which is part of the global WSCF, comprises 19 autonomous national SCMs made up of Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox students in the region.
According to the concept paper, NESCAP will try to make national SCMs more aware of the importance and potential of the senior friends, and to relate to them to “make them interested in the SCM activities.”
NESCAP will encourage and motivate national SCMs to locate and identify senior friends to bring them together from time to time for sharing issues and concerns.
It will also encourage national SCMs to create a network of SCM senior friends in their countries and to have programs for them on a regular basis.
“The support of the senior friends has become absolutely imperative to revitalize some of the SCMs in the region and to sustain the continuity of the national SCM activities, the concept paper said.
This is the first time some serious efforts are being made to connect with senior friends at the Asia Pacific regional level.
Future course of action, activities and structure of NESCAP will be worked out in detail at the Kuala Lumpur consultation, which is likely to be attended by more than 50 senior friends from different parts of the region.
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