CCF stands for Chinese Christian Fellowship. In Canada, you will find CCF exist in almost every university campus. So what exactly does CCF do? Of course, we can list all the varieties of programs in CCF: Singing, Bible Study, discussion, movie, music presentation, sermon, workshop, talent show, outdoor activities, indoor games, retreat, summer camp, cell group, testimony, sharing... it seems that there is nothing under the sun that we would not do. As for the objectives, however, we can clearly suggest two important ones:
- That it be a place where Christian students can come to fellowship, communicate, learn and grow
together. CCF should be a Christian body which transcends denomination, culture, language, sex, age,
academic discipline, or any other difference of background.
- That it be a place where non-Christian students come to appreciate what it mean to be a Christian.
CCF should not be monopoly of the Christians, but rather is open to every student, so that together we
may search for the Life, Love the Life, and that our lives touched by other lives.
If CCF Ceases to Exist...
This may be a supposition, yet it's by no means far-fetch. In fact, some CCFs do cease to exist when no one continue to take up the torch. So, what happen when CCF ceases to exist on Campus? Let's consider 3 areas:
- Evangelism: Some feel that since even without CCF the Christians on campus can still share the
Gospel individually, the difference CCF makes is not that great. However, this view overlooks one essential
ingredient of evangelism: the corporate witness. CCF being a witnessing community, functions not only as a
supporting base for Christians (encouraging one another in witnessing), but also a witness to the
non-Christians (by loving and helping one another). Such corporate witness is very powerful, and must not
be taken lightly.
- Growth: Student days is a crucial period of time for a Christian to grow into maturity. It we miss
the CCF involvement, we will be deprived of some very precious experiences -- learning to relate and
co-work with people of different backgrounds, churches, and temperaments; striving to integrate faith and
learning; and be challenged to engaged in missions.
- Leadership: Among the leaders of today's Chinese churches, many were the CCF leaders in their
generations. If, the CCF ceases to exist today, what will happen to the Church in the decades to come?
Objectives to CCF
- To witness to the Lord Jesus Christ as God incarnate and to seek to lead others to a personal faith in
Him as Saviour and Lord. Evangelism is the prime objective.
- To deepen and strengthen the spiritual life of students and others by the study of the Bible, by
fellowship and by prayer. The spiritual development of Christian is an equally important objective.
- To encourage Christians under the enablement of the Holy Spirit to demonstrate responsible Christian
love. The love of one's neighbour is a commandment of the Lord.
- To assist Christ students and faculty to explore and assert to the educational community the relevance
of the Christian faith to every issue of private life and publish concern. All truth is in Christ.
- To Challenge Christian students and faculty with the privilege and obligation of participating in
missionary outreach -- to give and pray and serve in whatever area of life they are called by God.
Every Christian is called to be sent.
Why CCF?
- The Campus is a vital mission field, Christian students are thus missionaries to it. (Matt 28:19-20)
- Love is the mark of all Christians. (John 13:34-35) The easiest way to show our love on campus is
to establish a caring, sharing, loving Christian group. How ca non-Christians see our love without seeing
us together?
- It's easier for Chinese to reach other Chinese. This is the same reason for the existence of the Chinese
Church. We need target ministries, even Paul had one. We must have burden for Chinese student. If we don't,
who will?
- Non-believers are often more open to coming to a campus meeting on their "turf" rather than going to a
foreign environment such as the church which is our "turf". Thus like all missionary efforts, we must go
to the lost and must not wait for the lost to come to us.
- CCF can perpetrate the campus more effectively with the Gospel than the local church because it meets in
the campus, knows the needs of those in the campus and have daily contacts with the non-Christians.
- The danger of not being in CCF is that we might have a tendency to shy away from evangelism because the
church is just so far away and often hidden from the campus.
- Remember, you only have three or four years to learn and to serve in the CCF, but you will have the rest
of your life to be involved in church ministries. Please grab the reden opportunity now!
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