CORE ACTIONS

The Society advocates for the urgency of reaching the collegiate world with the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, by promoting the power of past movements, revivals, current awakenings, and student-driven missions.

The Society’s core vitality is animated by a commitment to cooperation and collaboration. We are always actively looking for where, when, how, and by whom, the Spirit of the Lord is transforming student’s lives. We are polycentric in our ministry and wholly expects the strength of global voices to lead, resource, and energize the work.

Time, treasure, and talents are spent asking, “How might our work together be more effective than separately?” Trusting that a true global movement of the Spirit amongst students will reflect unity and not division. The Society embraces the Lausanne Covenant.

The Society loves the university and desires to see it flourish, while knowing it is both consecrated and contested ground. It gladly works in the "world of wisdom" and with those aspiring to it, whether these wisdom-seekers are college students, campus leaders, or any collegiate ministries focused on reaching their campus with the hope of the Gospel.

For it is, after all, across the university campuses, (universitas meaning in Latin, 'the sum of all things, or the whole') that the universitas magistrorum et scholarium, or "community of teachers and scholars" derives its name. On this canvas is where the Society works. Therefore, the Society welcomes innovation and all best practices. We are a Society of flourishing ‘faculty doers’ and collegiate practitioners. See the EVENTS page for current activisms.

"It takes time for the fires to burn." So said a young collegiate leader, Robert Speer, 100 years ago during one of the greatest revival movements of God amongst his peers that spilled into global missions.

Another leader called it a modern-day holiness movement or Kingdom of Character that indelibly changed nations. Another asked, "Has any such offering of living young men and women been presented in this age - in this country - in any age, or any country, since the day of Pentecost?"

In this spirit the Society offers teaching, training, and a chorus of partnering voices to inspire and equip new generations with the tools for advancing the Gospel during the few short but critical college years.

The Society is strategically evaluating and recruiting for collegiate beachheads around the world. It is looking for the next Donald Fraser, Robert Speer, Cambridge Seven, Tissington Tatlow, John Mott, Ruth Rouse, Elizabeth Ross, and the like, to join a cohort of Tatlow associates, who domestically and abroad feel called to the mission of campus engagement.

2,500 years ago, in The Art of War, Sun-Tzu said, “Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” He also said, “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.” Therefore, the Society being made of mustard seed doers, delight in holy plotting through strategic plans. Do reach out to us if this is a strength or a need in your work.