Adventist Christian Fellowship is the official ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for students attending public colleges and universities across the Atlantic Union Conference and the North American Division.
Go to the official Adventist Christian Fellowship website in North America: http://www.acflink.org/
About Adventist Christian Fellowship
Adventist Christian Fellowship is the official Ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for students attending public colleges and universities across the Atlantic Union Conference and the North American Division.
Public college and university campuses are one of the biggest mission fields for Adventist students. The northeast United States has a large population of college and university students due to the large concentration of institutions of higher learning located from New York to Maine.
Some of the larger schools in the Atlantic Union territory are New York University (NYU); Excelsior College in Albany, New York; Boston University; University at Buffalo; Harvard University; University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Northeastern University in Boston; University of Connecticut; Stony Brook University in the North Shore of Long Island; Columbia University in New York City; Suffolk County Community College in Long Island, New York; Nassau Community College; CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, and CUNY Hunter College in Manhattan, New York.
Six out of the eight famous and world-renowned Ivy League schools are located here in the Atlantic Union territory: Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; Columbia University in New York City; Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. We need our students attending these schools to reach out to classmates on each campus with love, kindness, tact, and knowledge.
The schools mentioned above are only the largest ones in our area, but there are plenty of smaller community colleges, colleges, and universities all around us with students from freshmen college to doctoral and postgraduate students who need the hope of Jesus, which we must share. These campuses are filled with students who will become highly influential and perhaps the leaders of our country and the world in the years to come, who need someone to share Jesus and the Advent Message with them.
We would like to encourage each college and university student in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Bermuda to get involved in ministry and relevant outreach on campus.
Goals and Objectives for Adventist Christian Fellowship
1. Activate the Adventist Christian Fellowship Ministry (ACF) in each conference of our Atlantic Union.
2. To start an Adventist Christian Fellowship group (Chapter) on each public college and university campus where there is an Adventist student
3. To plant an Adventist Christian Fellowship Ministry (Chapter) and if possible a church in all the six Ivy League school campuses in the Atlantic Union territory. There are eight Ivy League schools in the United States, six of them are in the Atlantic Union territory, they are:
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island;
Columbia University in New York City;
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York;
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire;
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
4. To plant an Adventist Christian Fellowship on the campus of the Bermuda College.