Word: hrcf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings to Urbana, a convention held in December and attended by 16,500 students, are the best publicized, but not the only evidence of a snowballing movement that is drawing young Christians to missionary work. Successful campus student groups, such as the predominantly Protestant Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF), also fuel this revived enthusiasm. The resurgence of the missionary committment is best supported by and most fervently related by students themselves...
...HRCF members who have actively contributed to the revival are self assured, but they avoid the hard-sell, preferring instead to discuss their faith as a simple "absolute truth" based on strict scriptural interpretation and intimate divine guidance...
...full-time committment "might have missed the point." Danby, who is studying Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Arabic, and plans to represent the church in India, added that, "As Christians, we have a responsibility to evangalize...Taking a conventional job is not going to go much towards that." Of the thirteen HRCF members who attended Urbana, many returned with new perspectives on missionary work, but none compared with Danby's uncompromising interpretation of the conference's message...
...something at home with prayer and money." Potts works for "Evangalism in Communist Lands," an organization that sends sections of the Bible that are hidden between the pages of personal letters to Christians in the Soviet Union. Agreeing with Potts, Chris Smith '80, president of the HRCF, explained that God instructs every Christian to perform a specific role, although not necessarrily that of a missionary--an idea that several others also mentioned. "God does have a plan for me," Smith said, adding, "I would know if He disapproved of what I am doing with my life...its an unexplainable uneasiness...