About SVM2
The emerging generation has always played a crucial role in seeing the missions movement propelled onward in vision, focus, zeal and fervency. Every major new missions thrust has been instigated by young adults who were abandoned to Jesus and caught His global vision.
Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) is an international network of students, leaders, churches, and organizations serving a grassroots mission movement among today’s emerging generation toward the fulfillment of the great commission in our lifetime.
Practical Motivations
According to research, there are critical needs in the student mission world, and the SVM2 network pointedly seeks to fill them. They are:
1. A low standard of commitment to and promotion of long-term cross-cultural ministry among the unreached.
2. A lack of unity and realization that more could be accomplished together than apart.
3. A lack of a unified prayer movement focused on the fulfillment of the Great Commission in our lifetime.
4. A lack of resources to help students launch mobilization initiatives among their peers for longer-term ministry among the unreached.
5. A lack of a connecting point for students and leaders of student ministries possessing a passion for mobilization to network and share information, ideas and effective resources.
6. A lack of connectedness between the two critical themes of revival and the Church’s effectiveness in the task of the Great Commission.
Scriptural Motivation
Several Scriptures have been building blocks for the work of SVM2 since its inception. Three of these include:
Nehemiah 2:17-19: “Then I said to them, ‘You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in waste and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the walls of Jerusalem that we may no longer be a reproach…So they said, ‘Let us arise and build.’…’The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build.’ ”
Numbers 13:30: “Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, ‘Let us go up at once and take possession for we are well able to overcome it.’ ”
Jeremiah 1:5-8: “Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.’ Then said I; ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.’ But the Lord said to me: ‘Do not say I am a youth, for you shall go to all to whom I send you and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,’ says the Lord.”
