The Vision and Genesis

The mandate God this movement is to raise work force for mission agencies and mission-oriented churches by mobilizing and equipping Christian students for missions. This is done in conjunction with several mission agencies and mission oriented churches.

Though the movement started sometime early 1994, the inauguration ceremony took place on the 20th May, 1995 in Nigeria. It is expected that as the students are exposed and acquainted with various mission works round the world, it will be easier for them to be part of any of these after their graduation, as God leads them. SMC has two membership arms; students and non-student arm. The non-student arm is known as The Battle Axe.

SMC is strongly refereed to as a movement because we believe that God will through it raise workers for many Christian mission ministries. Already, we have started seeing God doing this. Currently, nothing less that 6 known former student members of SMC are full time missionaries with some mission agencies in Nigeria, while a greater number had at one time or the other volunteered in several mission works. Today, SMC members are spread in different institutions of learning and cities within and outside Nigeria.

SMC’s chapters’ times of membership meetings vary. Regular activities of the movement include research, publicity, library services, evangelism and discipleship, Intercession for missions, mobilization of support for missionaries and skills & vocational services in Christian missions.  Each SMC chapter has its own leadership structure. Zonal, Regional and National leadership are drawn from both current and ex-officio members.

  Objectives of SMC

1. Mobilizing and equipping Christian students for missions
2. Sustaining missionary zeal of Christians (students and non-students)
3. Act as support base for many Christian mission works in term of resource – support

Membership and funding

SMC membership cuts across many Christian student fellowships and church denominations. Members are bound together by a burning desire of seeing the whole world evangelized; starting from their ‘Jerusalem”- Acts 1:8.

 SMC’s activities are funded by generous contributions of members in form of tithes, offering and special donations

 Special activities of SMC

• On-Campus Mission School- for practical training on Christian missions, effective evangelism, spiritual warfare, skills and vocations in missions. Takes place once in every session on campuses with our activities

• Student Mission Adventure (SMAD) – general mission adventure trips (local and international) to various mission fields for a taste of mission’s life. It is an opportunity to do exploit beyond one’s immediate environment, especially, places with little or no impact of Christianity.

• JE-HOSH-A-PHAT – a  musical concert for mission awareness and mobilization of resources for missions.

• LOOK – an annual mission prayer conference of SMC’s members, associates, friends and fellow believers.

• Mission Support Schemes – Student Mission Support Scheme raises financial and moral support for missionaries, and Missionary Empowerment Scheme (by non-student members) provides missionaries with supports to generate funds for their sustenance on their mission fields.

Membership code of conduct

1. Every member is expected to be genuinely born again, a lover of missions and a consistent member of a Christian fellowship or church.
2. Every student member is expected to strive toward academic excellence
3. Every member is responsible toward the movement prayerfully, morally and financially
4. Act of indiscipline or ungodliness is abhorred
5. Training in our On-Campus Mission School is compulsory for student-members
6. Student- members are left to God’s leading in their choices of mission works after studentship