The U of N Student Mobilization Centre is an international network equipping student ministry workers and mobilizing student teams to serve cross-cultural missions projects. To accomplish this, three types of SMC programs are available:
Field Ministry Internships: this principal programme of the SMC is for short-term teams of university student volunteers who serve communities in long-term projects at various levels of development.
Seminars: these 1- to 6-week specialized training modules are designed for both students and leaders. Current seminars include: Fundamentals for Student Ministries (FSM), Foundations for Biblical Christianity (FFBC), and the Vision Leadership Training Course (VLTC).
The School of University Ministries and Missions, a 12-week course designed to equip YWAM staff and UofN students.
All SMC programmes and resources are designed to:
Present the gospel to students through a variety of ministries and media.
Disciple students by modeling a godly lifestyle and by providing various training opportunities – primarily in a livelearn environment.
Reveal the thrill and wonder of hearing God’s voice and interceding for the nations.
Serve student needs through lasting friendship and caring community, especially international students.
Impart an understanding that God is central to the learning process and that He is with them in the difficult questions that challenge their faith.
Encourage students to serve God’s purposes, using their university training while expressing the knowledge of God in every arena of society.
Partner to serve the needs of communities through YWAM ministries, churches, and other organizations internationally.
Proclaim that the university is a key doorway for the Body of Christ to reach and teach the nations – especially through ministry to international students from creative access nations.
Integrate the diverse programs of YWAM and U of N, especially the Discipleship Training School, so as to present them in university communities around the world.
As part of YWAM’s University of the Nations, our purpose is to serve student organizations, mission agencies and local churches by helping ignite a new international, broad-structured, and inclusive student mobilization movement like that of the Student Volunteer Movement a century ago. In addition, the Student Mobilization Centre provides models for biblical worldview learning and serving toward the completion of the task of world evangelization.
We believe emphasizing university student mobilization will help direct the necessary resources and personnel toward frontier missions and integrated development projects engaged in discipling the nations according to the Gospel of Matthew 28:18-19.
