General Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1949-1952, 1944, 1947-1952

Containers:

Box 124

Component identifier:

File 9

Content Summary:

Mainly circulars to SCM Presidents, also General Committee, State Council Secretaries, Intercollegiate correspondents 1948-1951. Includes Circular to SCM Presidents 7 December 1949 from Frank Engel 'Having arrived at Headquarters - at last!' Raises questions of the "Movement's main reason for existence and the chief thing which it should be trying to 'get across' to students'. "If you want some ideas of mine on this kind of subject you will find them in the November Intercollegiate". Also a copy of - The ASCM 1951. An Account of Work among Australian Students\td\being a letter from the General Secretary. With amendment. Printed, 16pp. Also gives Officers and Secretaries of the Movement, Officers of the ASCM State Councils; Aim Basis of the Movement

"The ASCM 1951

Aim and Basis of the Movements

The aim of the Movement is:

To confront students with Jesus Christ and His Gospel

To lead them to commit themselves to Him and His way of life

To help them to grow into His likeness and in the understanding of the Christian faith

To unite them in the fellowship if His Church and in the devotion of their whole lives to the service of the Kingdom of God

The Basis of the Movement is:

Faith in the living God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - who makes

Himself known to us through the Scriptures and the life of the Church

The Australian Student Christian Movement welcomes into its fellowship of worship, study and service all students teachers and others who seek God and the truth by which to live

The membership of the Movement shall be open to those who have decided to follow Christ and to learn His way of life"

Immediate source of acquisition:

The initial transfer of these records by the General Secretary of the A.S.C.M. was in 1958. Removal from Melbourne to the National Library in Canberra took place in 1963.

Names:

Australian Student Christian Movement

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