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Mej. AP Ferguson was ’n onderwyseres by die Hugenote Kollege, waar sendelinge destyds opgelei is. In 1894 het sy ’n Studentekonvensie in Northfield, VSA, bygewoon, en die moontlikheid om ’n soortgelyke organisasie in Suid-Afrika te stig met die sekretaris van die studentebeweging, mnr LD Wishard, bespreek. Hieruit is die Christen-Studentevereniging (CSV) toe op 28 Julie 1896 gebore.
In 1965 het die CSV in vier verskillende organisasies verdeel as gevolg van die apartheidsbeleid van die destydse regering. Die organisasies was: Vereniging van Christen-Studente (VCS) vir bruin studente, Students’ Christian Movement (SCM) vir swart studente, Students’ Christian Association (SCA) vir blanke Engelssprekende studente en die Afrikaanse Christen- Studentevereniging (ACSV) vir blanke Afrikaanssprekende studente. SCA het Scripture Union gevra om sy werk in skole oor te neem en het slegs op studente gefokus.
Op 25 Januarie 1992 het verteenwoordigers van die SCA, SCM, VCS, ACSV, SU en SUCA samesprekings op Stellenbosch gevoer en die volgende verklaring is eenparig aanvaar:
“Ons het berou oor die onbybelse verdeling van 1965.
“Ons verbind ons tot ’n visie van ’n verenigde bediening/beweging in skole en tersiêre inrigtings ter wille van ons Christelike getuienis in die wêreld.
“Ons verbind ons tot die bevordering van hierdie visie in ons onderskeie verenigings en om weer te ontmoet om hierdie visie van eenheid verder te voer met die Woord van God as ons enigste riglyn.”
Na ’n proses van onderhandelings het die VCS en ACSV in 1997 herenig om die Verenigende Christen-Studentevereniging (VCSV) te vorm, terwyl SCM en SCA herenig het om die Students’ Christian Organisation (SCO) te vorm.
Miss AP Ferguson was a teacher at a missionary training institution in South Africa. In 1894 she attended a Students’ Convention in Northfield, USA, where she discussed the possibility of founding a similar organisation in South Africa with the secretary of the student movement, Mr. LD Wishard. The Students’ Christian Association (SCA) was duly founded on 28 July 1896.
In 1965 SCA was divided into four racially based organisations as a result of the segregation policies of the government of the time. The organisations were: Association for Christian Students (ACS) for coloured students, Students’ Christian Movement (SCM) for black students, Students’ Christian Association (SCA) for white English-speaking students, and Afrikaans Christian Students’ Association (ACSA) for white Afrikaans-speaking students. SCA asked Scripture Union to take responsibility for its work in schools and focused on tertiary students.
On 25 January 1992 representatives of SCA, SCM, ACS, ACSA, SU and SUCA met in Stellenbosch for consultations and agreed unanimously on the following statement:
“We repent of the unbiblical division that occurred in 1965."
“We commit ourselves to a vision of a united ministry/movement in schools and tertiary institutions for the sake of our Christian witness in the world."
“We commit ourselves to promoting this vision in our constituencies and to meeting again to take this vision of unity further with the Word of God as our only guide.”
After a process of negotiations ACSA and ACS reunited to form the Uniting Christian Students’ Association of SA (UCSA) and SCM and SCA reunited to form the Students’ Christian Organisation (SCO) in 1997. |
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