Student Christian Movement of India is the oldest ecumenical students movement in India. Since our faith journey we have been serving the student community in their search for meaning, purpose and beauty of life. Life and fellowship with SCM enabled generations of student communities to explore themselves and their society; to realise the dimensions and depths of faith expressions and commitments; to unfold the gifts of talents and potentials; to understand the social system and cultural values that enable social life as well as that constrain human life and relations on the basis of gender, caste, race etc. Our faith commitments inspired our student community to be with the marginalised and downtrodden people and to be with the efforts to build up a just and peaceful society.
Kerala SCM, one of the vibrant regions of Indian SCM, continues its mission to accompany the student community. Throughout our life, we are trying to be sensitive enough to understand the contemporary life and challenges of our young buds. For the past few years, Kerala SCM is engaged in exploring simple and effective methods to communicate with the young buds in order to understand their life situations and challenges and to offer hope and trust in human life, relationships, learning, endeavours and spirituality. The participatory and interactive mode ensures that each and every participant is listened and encouraged. We make it sure that our programmes and words respect the young minds. We are not in the mission to teach theologies or ideologies to the ‘unlearned’ and build up a group to serve these ‘ideologies’.
Our mission and challenge is:
- to accompany the young buds in their life journey;
- to encourage them to explore themselves and realise the purpose, meaning and beauty of life;
- to inspire them to understand social life, relations and dynamics and to be change makers in their own lives and in their surroundings for a just, inclusive, democratic and peaceful society;
- to enrich the culture of learning and knowledge production in campuses;
- to build up ecumenical as well as secular spaces that genuinely crosses the divisive borders of all kinds and that promotes scientific temper, plurality, democracy, search for spirituality and simple life.
We are glad that the different approach and method is wholeheartedly accepted by the young minds. We have met student groups of various churches, colleges and schools. We realise that our efforts to update, to change ourselves are in the right direction as the efficiency level is higher than the conventional methods and approaches. Students, youth groups, college departments are calling us back for more engagements.
SCM Kerala 