Shaping “Reach Out, Build Up, Send Back”

Overseas Christian Fellowship’s Student Returnee Mission and Cold War Australia’s Colombo Plan, 1959–1979

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12958459
AutoresJoshua Dao Wei Sims (0000-0002-0812-3756, National University of Singapore, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen37
Número1-2
Páginas85-124
Fecha de publicación2024-06-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Sciences and Missions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1874-8945 • E-ISSN: 1874-8937
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18748945-bja10099
OpenAlexW4399692021
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

Why did Asian Christian international students return home with a missionary mindset during the Cold War? This study answers the question by investigating Overseas Christian Fellowship ( OCF ) Australia and its student returnee mission. I show that OCF ’s returnee mission was shaped by Australia’s Cold War foreign policy – the Colombo Plan Scheme. The paper argues that the time-limited conditions imposed by the Scheme established a migratory and educational training pattern which influenced OCF ’s mission of evangelising overseas students and training its members to return home as Christian witnesses. In conclusion, I observe a student-led, faith-based Australia-Asia imaginary emerging from OCF ’s mission

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