Editors' Note

So, this is the second dossier for the CCA-WSCF Joint Programme '95. We hope this will further provoke you to reflect on the situations of our students in Asia-Pacific, the state of our student ministry through the Student Christian Movement and WSCF, or even, as in some cases, our lack of support for this type of ministry.

As with the first dossier, the topics of these papers are taken from some of the following objectives of the CCA-WSCF Joint Programme '95:

• To analyze the change of student situations on campuses, especially with regards to the ideological and intellectual climate among students and academics;

• To understand the present needs, concerns and problems of students in the context of rapid socio-economic-political changes in Asia-Pacific societies;

• To envision new ways or aims of student ministry in the light of these changes;

• To strategize the mission of the church in the universities in view of a more substantial and effective ministry among students; and

• To celebrate one hundred years of SCMs, bringing the different generations together as one community.

Both our first and second dossiers are published as study papers for would-be participants of the CCA-WSCF Joint Programme '95 to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on April 1-8, 1995. But they are also disseminated to all the senior friends and SCMs in the region. We are very grateful to the senior friends and SCMs who finally came up with their contributions, even in the midst of their busy schedules.

We are also very grateful to Bong Angeles of CCA-Youth for working on the basic layout design; and to Cecibel Perez of CCA-URM and Iris Li of WSCF A-P for helping with the final touches.

We would appreciate it if we could hear from you. Please feel free to share with us your own reflections and assessment of the student ministry in Asia-Pacific.

Wong Wai Ching

Hope S. Antone

Editors