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The Princeton Evangelical Fellowship (PEF) is a nondenominational Christian ministry at Princeton University whose purpose is "to help undergraduate and graduate students... grow as believers and followers of Jesus Christ... () to let the rest of the University community know the full message of Christianity so that others can come to believe and have faith in Jesus Christ."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pef.mycpanel.princeton.edu/our-purpose/our-purpose/ )〕 Founded in 1931 by Dr. Donald B. Fullerton, a member of the Princeton University Class of 1913, the PEF is one of the oldest campus ministries of its type, predating the founding of Campus Crusade and Intervarsity by a decade or more. PEF is one of the largest student organizations at Princeton University, and is currently led by the (Rev. Dr. William Boyce ), a member of the Princeton Class of 1979. ==Early History== From 1825 until its demise amid controversy in 1930 the Philadelphian Society was the center of Evangelical religious life on campus. This left a lack of organized evangelical ministry at Princeton and the next year a friend of Donald Fullerton called him worried over the hard time his son was having spiritually as a student. Dr. Fullerton had previously served as a Plymouth Brethren missionary on the northwest frontier of British India, the border regions of modern day Pakistan and Afghanistan, but was forced off the mission field by ill health. He made an attempt to return to the mission field in 1929, sailing out on the RMS ''Mauretania''. He prayed that God would turn the ship around if it was not His will that he return to the mission field. While still in New York harbor the Mauretania collided with a car float forcing a return to dock and signaling to Dr. Fullerton that his days of overseas service were at an end. This enabled Dr. Fullerton to respond to the request of his friend by starting to hold Bible classes on the campus, which replaced the defunct Philadelphian Society and which he would continue for fifty years. These informal Bible classes grew into a formal organization in 1937, with PEF's first undergraduate president, A.G. Fletcher Jr. a member of the Princeton Class of 1938, announcing: A group of us have felt for a number of years the need on this Campus of a society with a fundamental Christian position... () feel that the fine Christian tradition on which Princeton was founded is not entirely dead today and that there are still many undergraduates in the University whose senses are awake to the higher, eternal values in life, and who would welcome an opportunity to strengthen and reaffirm these convictions in a collective way through congenial fellowship with others holding similar views... We wish to emphasize that the P. E. F. was not formed in opposition to any of the religious organizations already existing on the Campus. Our intention has never been to oppose, but rather to supplement these other programs by supplying elements which we feel have been neglected. Notable early members of the PEF include Judge Paul Pressler, who was a key figure in the conservative resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Jack Whitcomb, led to faith as a freshman by Dr. Fullerton and a leading young earth creationist. In 1947, the same year the PEF held its first alumni reunion, the fellowship hosted a showing of (The God of Creation ), a film created by the Moody Institute. One member of the audience of two hundred was Albert Einstein to whom the young Dr. Whitcomb handed a Gospel tract. Another notable PEF alumnus from its early decades is the noted Reformed theologian John Frame a member of the Princeton Class of 1960. He said of his time in the fellowship that: Fullerton and PEF cared deeply about people, spending hours in mutual prayer, exhortation, counseling, gospel witness... And they made me a much better follower of Jesus. I will never regret being part of this semi-Arminian, dispensationalist, separatist, tee-totaling, semi-victorious life, pietistic, biblicistic group called PEF. And the greatest part of that experience was the godly example of Donald B. Fullerton. He was not a perfect man, but I am yet today an imitator of his, since he imitated Jesus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Princeton Evangelical Fellowship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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