With a firm commitment to evangelism and mission, the four principles which guide the TSCF ethos are undivided life, deep thought, global reach and true witness.
One of the groups established was the Australasian Student Christian Union (ASCU), which, was formed at a conference held at Ormond College, Melbourne University, on 6 June 1896.
[2] The Student Christian Movement had evangelical roots, in the work and examples of early pioneers such as Dwight L. Moody, Hudson Taylor, Sholto Douglas, Handley Moule, the “Cambridge Seven”, Robert Wilder, and its close connection with the Keswick Convention.
[2] During the 1920s CICCU came under the leadership of Howard Mowll, who developed the network of the union with of other evangelical student groups, and formalized this as the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (IVF) in 1928.
[4] In 1947 IVF New Zealand joined with ten other national movements to form the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.