Overseas Christian Fellowship (OCF) Australia is a student-led and student-run organisation that functions as a para-church in reaching out to international students, building them up to be God’s people, and sending them back to their home countries as ambassadors of God. OCF Australia is non-denominational and is comprised of 19 active centres in various Australian university campuses.

Vision of OCF

OCF’s vision is consistent with God’s eternal purpose and the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20.

To reach out to all overseas students in Australia;

Build them up to be Christ’s disciples;

And send them back to their home countries as disciple-makers.

Aims of OCF

Missions and Evangelism:

· To see one’s own campus and home country as missions fields.

· To be trained in evangelism and missions.

· To actively reach out to the lost.

· To participate in mission work through giving, going, sending and praying.

Teaching and Training:

· To grow in spiritual maturity through the study and application of God’s Word.

· To serve God through ministry opportunities in OCF and local churches.

· To develop one’s character, spiritual gifts, and spiritual leadership.

· To impart one’s Christian experience to another so that others will be built up to spiritual maturity with the goal of making disciples.

OCF does not presume itself to fulfil all these aims independent of the local church. Rather, OCF as a whole recognises itself as an arm of the church and seeks to complement the local church’s ministry in cultivating these Christian attributes in every OCFer.

Jesus prayed for us in John 17:22-23:
“ 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

Unwavering unity in faith!

He prayed that we may be one as brothers and sisters in Christ, so that the world will know that He was truly the Son of God. Unity is one of the core things among many other things that enables us to REACH OUT and preach the gospel, not how eloquent or experienced we are.

Jesus’ own words have inspired us to follow a challenge given by a fellow brother in Christ who wrote Hebrews 10:19-25

19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

These verses assume that we have our firm Faith in the power of the blood of Jesus Christ and how that should look like in our lives. Therefore, we must be certain that OCF members be sure in that before anything else comes – ministry, leading etc.

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Verse 23 is a call to Perseverance knowing that our God is faithful to us.

24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

We are told to BUILD each other UP in every way towards good character and this is what is going to enable us share the gospel – having the likeness of Christ. This verse also tells us the drive of our urgency – The day that Christ returns. We should all be compelled by the gospel in all the things that we do.

With all that, when we are SENT BACK to our world, we have the confidence to make His name known, we push on – overcoming all the things that hold us back and best of all, we do it together with our brothers and sisters, united with Christ in Christ and through Christ, never walking alone.