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191: 245: 364:. PCF's members have included several Princeton University valedictorians, salutatorians, and two young alumni trustees among recipients of many other university awards. According to one source PCF's alumni include "prominent seminary professors, scientists, denominational leaders, influential authors, as well as missionaries in more than twenty-five countries. As an independent group from a single university, the PCF has contributed more leaders to the Christian world than probably any other Christian college group." 350: 24: 266:
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.
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The Princeton Evangelical Fellowship was the reason I came to Princeton ... Now, four years later, PEF is most assuredly the best thing to happen to me at Princeton ... PEF has prepared me morally and spiritually for life after Princeton, much more so than any class I've taken here over the past four
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In the fall of 2017 the ministry changed its name to Princeton Christian Fellowship, due to the perception that the term 'evangelical' had too much of a political connotation rather than a theological one, with Boyce stating "There might be certain assumptions that all evangelicals are Republicans".
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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
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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 PCF's first
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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." Founded in 1931 by
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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
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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
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to Princeton in 1969 ended the days when the fellowship was exclusively male. Despite the many changes over the decades PCF continues to be cited by students and alumni as a principal life influence.
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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.
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The fellowship has grown steadily over time, with under 30 members in 1959, up to 70 by the 1978, and 150 by the late 90s. It now includes a dedicated graduate student ministry, the
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PCF has a long tradition of baptizing students on Easter Sunday morning in conjunction with other campus ministries and under the authority of
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The PCF in 1960 (L-R): William Bryant '60, Ray Chao '61, Steve Johnson '60, Don Youngren '61, Ron Fisher '60, Hank Bryant '63,
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by a decade or more. PCF is one of the largest student organizations at Princeton University, and is currently led by the
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forcing a return to dock and signaling to Dr. Fullerton that his days of overseas service were at an end.
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An Uncommon Christian: James Brainerd Taylor, Forgotten Evangelist in America's Second Great Awakening
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undergraduate president, A.G. Fletcher Jr. a member of the Princeton Class of 1938, announcing:
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A group of us have felt for a number of years the need on this Campus of a society with a
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a member of the Princeton Class of 1960. He said of his time in the fellowship that:
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Dr. Fullerton (right), the founder of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, at the
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Over its more than eighty years of existence the PCF has seen many changes. The
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in mentoring students and playing piano and keyboard with the fellowship's
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Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth
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The Complete Book of When and Where In the Bible and Throughout History
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of the Princeton Class of 2001 wrote at the end of his senior year:
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Murray-Dodge Hall, in which PCF has held meetings since the 1930s.
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Another notable PCF alumnus from its early decades is the noted
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Bill Boyce, Director of the Princeton Christian Fellowship
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Evangelical organizations established in the 20th century
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Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science
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From 1825 until its demise amid controversy in 1930 the
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Non-profit organizations based in Princeton, New Jersey
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Student religious organizations in the United States
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Donald B. Fullerton
Princeton, NJ
40°20′53″N 74°39′29″W / 40.347940°N 74.657938°W / 40.347940; -74.657938
pcfprinceton.org
nondenominational
Princeton University
Dr. Donald B. Fullerton
Cru
Intervarsity
Rev. Chris Sallade

P-Rade
Philadelphian Society
Evangelical
Plymouth Brethren
missionary
British India
Pakistan
Afghanistan
RMS Mauretania
car float

John Frame
fundamental
Jack Whitcomb
young earth creationist
The God of Creation
Moody Institute
Albert Einstein

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