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I know that in past years I have heard it referred to. In studying such things as AD2000
and Beyond, the DAWN Movement, the Perspectives Course, and now in more detail the U S Center
for World Mission, the SVM has repeatedly come up.
Last weekend I was looking through a biography of Robert E. Speer, one of the movement's
early leaders. He was having discussions with John R. Mott (another leader) and John
D Rockefeller ( not sure yet which one, the time was in the early 1930s) with requests
for money to fund projects....
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http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/jdr3rdbiog.html John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, 1906-1978 The young Rockefeller also developed his own interests.
Through his work as a member of the board of directors of the Bureau of Social Hygiene
(to which he was appointed in 1928), Rockefeller began a lifelong commitment to the issues
of population and birth control. In 1932, he became chairman of the Delinquency Committee
of the Boys Bureau of New York City. Six years later the Committee published its recommendations
for handling youthful offenders in Youth in the Toils. ............................................................... In July 1942, Rockefeller joined the Navy. He served
with the rank of lieutenant commander in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and
worked in an interagency task force devoted to planning postwar policy for Japan. Rockefeller
was released from active duty in 1945 but his wartime experience led to his appointment
as a cultural consultant to John Foster Dulles during the Japanese peace treaty negotiations.
His broad assignment to consider ways to improve U.S.- Japan relations fostered his deep
interest in Japan and in all of Asia. Rockefeller came to love the country, its culture,
and its people, so much so that Japan became a second home to Rockefeller and his wife.
It was during this time, the latter 1940s, that he and his wife began collecting Asian
art, albeit on an intermittent and amateur basis. ................................................... With the founding of the Population Council in 1952,
Rockefeller hoped to bring the problem of overpopulation to global attention. His travels
throughout Asia convinced him that population growth had to be checked if underdeveloped
countries were to achieve political stability. In 1970, President Nixon appointed Rockefeller
to the chairmanship of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future.
The "contextualizing" of the gospel, which credit is given to Donald McGavran, in reality began with Mott's survey which resulted in the report, "Rethinking Missions." Mott's ecumenical influence is widespread and is found as a mainstay in teaching courses such as Perspectives, and throughout mission thought.