Start: 3 December 10:30am (AEDT) End: 4 December 7pm (AEDT) (just before NTE2026) SCTC program includes the AFES AGM which starts 4 December 4:30pm (AEDT). SCTC is held at EPIC, Canberra
You’re invited to join us for the 2026 Student Committee Training Conference (SCTC).
What is SCTC?
The Student Committees Training Conference is a two-day conference that brings together student leaders from around the country to energize and equip you to lead your group in proclaiming Jesus on your campus.
It will be a fantastic opportunity to meet other student leaders from across Australia, share ideas, and be trained for service and leadership, so that together we can see the cause of Christ advanced on our campuses in the coming year. This year’s topic is Sharpening Your Evangelistic Edge.
Program Overview
Leading an AFES affiliate group is a demanding task and can easily become overwhelming. Making plans, organising events, coordinating people, liaising with the student guild, attending meetings, recruiting, retaining, sending students—it’s easy to see how mission might become an afterthought or fall off the agenda entirely.
This year’s conference is all about sharpening the evangelistic edge of your group, not just through ministry structures, but in student hearts.
Over the course of the conference, we’ll explore:
- a biblical framework for mission
- structural, strategic and cultural factors that impact your group’s evangelistic edge
- how to you might sharpen the edge in light of your group’s context and life-stage
We’ll also explore the wild variety of ways within this framework that we can proclaim the gospel on campus at our Ideas Forum and Expert Panel.
Our hope is that you’ll be better equipped to lead your group with clarity and conviction, making wise decisions as you proclaim Jesus on your campus in the coming year.
SCTC Timetable
Why should you join SCTC?
Hear from from some of our previous attendees!
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SCTC Testimonials
SCTC was a wonderful opportunity to spend as student leaders focusing in on God and rooted ourselves in Him before we embark upon the next year of ministry. It was a helpful time both to grow myself and as our committee, fixing our eyes on Jesus.
SCTC is so good!!! There is so much growth and fruitful conversations to be had. On top of the incredible sessions there are, the mutual encouragement I found increased my zeal and excitement to serve God in such an awesome context.
SCTC gave me tools to realise the mission that God has graciously given us as student leaders on campus, and how to carry it out. It has been encouraging to do this alongside brothers and sisters across the country, and to learn and grow with them.
SCTC is an extremely valuable training conference for all those stepping or currently in leadership and executive positions. Having the time in God’s word and amongst other Christian leaders, thinking through what God’s word says about how and why we lead and what to consider has definitely impacted how I will lead next year.
SCTC was definitely such an incredible opportunity for me to be encourage by the uniting of committee members from different unis from all over the country for the Gospel. It has both spiritual and practical encouragement and has given me plenty to bring back to the rest of my committee!
The SCTC was super helpful in thinking big-picture about ministry, and how to approach proclaiming Christ on campus. It was also super helpful to meet and hear from other student leaders from around the country
The wisdom that SCTC provided about my role as a leader was invaluable. It was a great reminder of how we are stewards of God, nothing is our own, and it is only by his glorious grace that we have anything
SCTC is a great way of meeting likeminded Christian leaders and be given the tools to lead well. Meeting other exec allows for cross-pollination of ideas and experiences, and I’ve walked away with an excitement for ministry on-campus again. The teaching/training is so helpful to think well about how to lead well
SCTC is a great chance to stop and think and pray through what it means to be a leader at the university christian group. It also is a chance to learn about other groups and meet students.
