Appendix 4

Evaluation on the CCA-WSCF Joint Consultations

from 1997 to 2002

The CCA-WSCF Joint Program Committee requested evaluation to the NCCs and SCMs who organized joint consultations during last 7 years. The Comm. felt that the evaluation would be a critical reference to articulate vision and mission on the ecumenical student ministry in Asia-Pacific region. For easy facilitation of evaluation, the Comm. provided the following questionnaires as guideline – some countries followed the questionnaires and some did not:

1. Did the consultation well address the common concerns regarding the ecumenical student ministry in your country? Was the consultation properly communicated to the grassroots level (SCM members and local churches)? Was it relevant to your context?

2. Has the cooperation between SCM and NCC improved after the consultation?

3. Were any follow up plans implemented after the consultations? If not, what are the major reasons?

4. Do you have any suggestions for future cooperation between SCM and NCC (churches)?

5. What do you think can be the most important support from churches towards SCM in this time?

Evaluation of the National Consultation on Campus Ministry

– Building Links in Student-Youth Ministry in Aotearoa

May 3-4, 1997 in Christchurch

Basically, it was considered very helpful and established a relationship that was not really their before. Out of it came three LITE (LIve-in theological experience conferences that SCM ran and CCANZ funded), sponsorship for two SCMers

to attend CCANZ conferences each year, good networking etc. It seems that several of the specific ideas at the consultation did not eventuate but that overall the consultation was very helpful. What SCM continues to find helpful from CCANZ/the churches is encouragement, information sharing, promotion and any funding. SCMA supports other countries having such consultations and closer relations with NCCs.

Evaluation of the National Consultation on Student-Youth Christian Movement in Japan

April 27-29, 1997 in Tozanso

1. It was successful to make a starting point of exchange program among Japanese Christian denominations concerning about Student-Youth Christian Movement. But, because of strong organizational representations youth participation was very low. However, during the evaluation, NCC, SCM and KCC(Korean Christian Center) agreed to increase youth participation for future consultations and to concentrate on discussion of social problems in Japan.

2-3. Based on the evaluation, NCC, SCM and KCC held the 2nd and the 3rd Ecumenical consultation as follows.

1) 2nd Ecumenical Consultation: 2nd ~4th Nov. 2000/ with 40 participants

2) 3rd Ecumenical Consultation: 20th ~22nd Mar 2003/ with 45 participants

The two consultations confirmed the following action plans:

・ Improvement of exchange program information

・ Setting up Regional Ecumenical Network

・ More Cooperation for social issues

・ Development of Ecumenical Leadership

・ Enhance solidarity with Asia Christian movement

And the following progress were made out of action plans:

・ Building up ecumenical Youth mailing list

・ Monthly ecumenical fellowship meeting

・ Active involvement in struggling against publication of a textbook that distorts the past that Japan invaded Asian countries during the World War II.

・ 1^st Ecumenical Youth forum on 21st ~24th Mar 2002 with 35 youth leaders’ participation

・ Celebrating the Asia-Pacific Students and Youth Week (EASYNet) every year through translating the resource book into Japanese.

4-5. In future it is important to concentrate on a movement against patriotic and militaristic trends including text book issue, patriotic education and revising Article 9 of the constitution which proclaims that the Japanese people renounce war forever. Our ecumenical movement had better to be based on concrete movement for peace-making in Japan. Exchange program and information sharing is a basic matter, but not main purpose. What is important is how each denominations and organizations identify Japanese social situation from the perspective of social justice and peace. Throughout these efforts, the ecumenical cooperation among

youth and students groups can transform some churches whose stance is very conservative and internal business oriented.

Evaluation of the National Consultation on

Campus Ministry in the Philippines

September 16-18, 1999 at the NCCP Ecumenical Center

1. The consultation was able to came out with a unified framework for the ecumenical student ministry, but strategies has been redefined in the context of changing situation in the Philippines. For the SCMP part, results of the consultation were echoed in the National Council Meetings and National Assemblies that ensued after the consultation. It has also been part of the Denominational youth organization’s consultations under NCCP Youth desk, but sadly this was not transmitted to the local /grassroots churches.

2. Yes, it improved a lot in so many ways. The consultations between SCM and NCCP through its youth desk become more regularized. Ecumenical forums are organized jointly by SCMP and NCC. The NCCP had been providing financial assistance to selected SCM activities and they had been providing resource person to SCMP’s implementation of the Basic Ecumenical Course and Bible in Context Seminar-Trainings.

3.The Basic Ecumenical Course which is being implemented both by SCMP and NCCP is one of the major plans that materialized and is continuously being implemented up to this time after the consultation. Likewise, the creation of NCCP Youth Desk was one of the major successes of the consultation.

Some of the plans that need to be pushed through are the active church participation on youth summit that is being

annually organized by SCM with other youth organizations. Likewise, the revival of church campus ministry and the coordination of SCM and existing church youth ministries on major universities in the Philippines have to be realized yet. On the part of the SCM, we feel that campus ministries are still quite scared to be identified with SCM because of our militant and active stand on pressing student and social issues.

4. At the National level the relationship between SCMP, KKKP and NCCP is very healthy at the moment. NCCP had been providing office space to SCMP and KKKP for free within the NCCP building. Likewise NCCP is providing some financial support to selected youth activities sponsored by SCMP and KKKP. On the other hand, .SCMP and KKKP is very much active to church youth activities of NCCP and usually act as resource person and facilitators.

The Basic Ecumenical Course which was a major result of the NCCP-SCMP Consultation is being implemented both by NCCP and SCMP at a regular basis.

However, this healthy relationship needs to be reflected at the local level. Though some Protestant churches are very supportive of SCM work in selected provinces in South (Cagayan de Oro and Davao), it has to be reflected in more provinces. At this time, dialogues and other activities that will enhance the relationship between the church and SCM at the local level need to be supported.

SCM has to give more effort in reaching out to youth organizations that are church based, at the same time the churches has to be more accommodating and should welcome SCM efforts at the local level. These need to be strategized in the future.

5. At this time, that SCM along with other church workers who are active in the struggle for social change in the Philippines are “persecuted”, the church can give its utmost support to the endeavor of SCM. We long to see that SCM are welcomed back to the local churches, in terms that SCM can have small spaces as office or physical center in the local churches.

Likewise, since the SCM is giving its best effort to revive and give life to ecumenical activities that is reflective of Christian tradition, the church can support this ecumenical endeavor through offering resources (material support, human resources and skills).

Evaluation of the National Consultation of NCC and SCM in Korea

Held on June 8, 2001 at PCK Center in Seoul

“Towards Ecumenical Campus Ministry ”

1. The consultation was helpful and relevant to our context in the fact that the consultation helped a lot to identify the problems and issues of the ecumenical student ministry. However, it was not communicated properly to the grassroots level of both NCC and SCM. From SCM’s side, the capacity of the students members was very weak because most of units in the universities disappeared at that time. However, now the university units are being rebuilt. And from NCC’s side the discussion and recommendations of the consultation were kept by staff and stuck in the office.

2. After the consultation both NCC and SCM are trying their best to rebuild youth and student ministry in a more organized way. Particularly NCCK has invited many SCM senior friends to the Youth Committee in order to enhance the partnership between NCC and SCM.

3. The recommendations in the consultation have not been implemented well. It is because of the difference of “confession of faith”. While SCM has a radical and progressive views on the church and society, the church in general has a comparatively conservative one. In order to bridge this gap between SCM and church, the Christian faculty can play an important role.

4. Korea SCM is trying to organize young local church pastors to relate SCM work to the church context. The young pastors try to understand the needs of students and to develop programs which are relevant to young generation.

5. The concern and love for the ecumenical student ministry is the most critical support to the SCM. Both church and SCM should recognize that the future of Korean church depends on the ministry of students and youth as most members of the Korean church are elderly people. The Korean church is rapidly losing ecumenical spirituality and prophetic role in the society. Promoting ecumenical leadership in the SCM will be critical to revive the ecumenical spirituality and to project new alternatives in the Korean church.

Evaluation of the National Consultation of NCC and SCM in India,

June 8-10, 2001 ,SCM House

“Religious Pluralism, Inter Faith Relations and Rising Communal Violence: A Christian Response”

In India, National Council of Churches and SCMI has long lasting working relationship. These two organizations also share same ethos of the ecumenism. So it is easy to work together. NCCI and SCMI had many joint programs. The Joint consultation initiated by CCA and WSCF-AP reminds

us of our partnership in local, national and international levels.

As for the theme concerned “Religious Pluralism, Inter Faith Relations and Rising Communal Violence: A Christian Response”, it is a burning issue of religious minorities in India and Christian community in particular. NCCI and SCMI have moral responsibility to address these concerns. Both of them had prepared a joint statement and it has been circulated through Newsletters and magazines.

This consultation was followed by many programs and the issue of communal violence was also addressed in specific. These are some of the programs organized by SCMI:

a. “Terrorism and its impact on Students: Issues and Challenges in Education”.

b. A national workshop jointly organized by NCCI and SCMI on “Human Rights in India: The Need for a Prophetic Youth and Student Voice”.

c. Gujarat Genocide and Peace march

d. “Violence of Cultural Nationalism: Students’ Response”

It is also true that all the recommendations are not followed. But many of the recommendations are implemented by both the organizations. All recommendations of the joint consultation, except the 2^nd and 5^th recommendations all the others were implemented. The main reasons for not implementing all the recommendations are lack of time, energy and resource. The change of leadership is also one of the main reasons.

NCCI can help youth/ students in Churches to involve in SCMI activities. The Ecumenical competition should not develop a gap between the two but rather ecumenical spirit

should unite them. It is also important to develop a working group between NCCI Youth desk and SCMI, where both of them come together time to time. This will create more co-ordination between both the organizations and avoiding repetition of our work.

Evaluation of the National Consultation of NCC and SCM in Bangladesh

Held on April 12-14, 2002 at CCDB Hall , Dhaka

“Interdenominational cooperation towards ecumenical student and youth movement”

1-2. The consultation was successful enough to address the contextual issues. The reasons of growing division between SCM and NCC had been appropriately discussed and identified. However it was not later properly communicated with the local churches from the national level. Despite of this deficiency, local SCM leaders have strong connection with the churches. With hope, the SCM and NCC relationship is in a way that to improve though. Where there was no communication at all before the consultation, NCC has put up with their good effort now to invite SCM to participate in their programs. The cooperation is limited within dialogue.

3-4. Anyway the relationship is good at the personal level and it is with the youth. Bur organizational relationship between SCM and the NCC leadership is as static as it was before the consultation. The mutual cooperation between NCC and SCM on grass-root level has been static as well. Yet there has been good signs like every ecumenical movement has participated in the greater ecumenical platform like the EASYNet which is realization of one of the recommendation plans of consultation. Apart from the participation in the greater ecumenical platform, none of the plans have been implemented. This is due to the fact there is