Victoria Student Christian Movement: WELCOME!

In Victoria B.C., the SCM meets in nourishing community every week to share food, prayer and ideas.

We are passionate about spirit-filled social change and building a community where justice can flourish. Anyone can participate, regardless of background or beliefs. All our welcome at our table: SCM welcomes queer members and strives to organize from our anti-oppression covenant.

THURSDAY POTLUCKS!

every Thursday 6-9pm

SPECIAL EVENTS & NEWS

apply for coordinator job today!

• SCM Victoria is hiring a part-time coordinator to start September 2005. The UVic SCM will be entering its second year, and is looking for someone to work with the community to implement its social justice and spiritual vision.
  
  For details, visit SCM's national Jobs Site
  
  
  

catholic worker visit

Sunday, April 17 :: 2-4pm
@ Mike's (235-#104 Cook St)

• Sarah, a founding member of the Vancouver Catholic Worker, will be having tea with the SCM in Victoria this Sunday. The Catholic Worker movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is a sister movement to the SCM, and based on a large network of houses of hospitality and faith activists.
  
  
  
  
  

NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Connecting to Land & Life: Reclaiming Earth from Empire

May 7-15, 2005
@ Camp Pringle, Victoria

• Victoria SCM is hosting our week-long national conference and council in 2005! We'll be thinking about how global Empire shapes oppression, our lives, and the possibilities for liberation.
  
  [ Official Conference website! ]
  
  View the poster [pdf]
  
  We'll look at how connecting to land and life can help us creatively overcome Empire--through indigenous struggles for land, anti-oppression, and movements for environmental and social justice. Join us for an inspiring, energizing and radical experience of SCM community.
  
  Cost: $150 + SCM's collective travel pool ($150) so all regions can attend. Lack of funds will not be a barrier. Contact us for information on registration and bursaries (contact us).
  
  
  

voting for the environment

• SCM co-ordinator Emma is an ambassador for the Sierra Club's Vote Environment campaign! Check the website to learn about their campaign.
  
  
  

vancity grant

• Victoria SCM has been awarded a $2,500 grant from VanCity Credit Union, for our National Conference May 7-15, in Victoria. The conference theme is Connecting to Land & Life: Reclaiming Earth from Empire. Link to more information, and sign up early!
  
  
  

prayers

• Visit our prayers page, where you can share your heart-concern for our broken but beautiful world. (we will lift them up at gatherings)
  
  
  

WHAT WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR

• past events page

archbishop romero: 25 years, martyr for justice

* NOTE REVISED LOCATION: 1560 PEMBROKE! *
Thursday, March 24 :: Dinner: 7:30 pm :: Worship: 9-midnight

• Join us and others at Ekklesia House for a Holy Thursday passover seder (dinner) and vigil in memory of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador - the hopes of liberation and justice.
  
  Romero was assassinated by US-trained militants in 1980, while celebrating mass. To this day - 25 years later - he is a hero to the Salvadorian people, and to people of faith working for peace and justice everywhere. Romero spoke fearlessly against the violence and greed engulfing his country in the 1970s. We will be commemorating his life and example on the anniversary of his death, on Holy Thursday. Stay tuned to find out more.
  • 7:30 pm : passover seder dinner (in memory of the Judeo-Christian liberation story)
  • 9 pm : worship / vigil to remember the martyrs and honour dreams of liberation
  • (optional): 7 pm : new documentary film about Romero (Camosun College, Young Bldg rm 216)
  Info on Romero.
  
  
  

building antiracist cultures II

Thursday, April 14 :: 6-9 pm
@ Hailey's (1537-#3 Gladstone, near Belmont St)

• See our anti-racism & the SCM page
  
  David will be continuing our interactive and engaging workshop on racial justice & privilege at our potluck - but newcomers are encouraged to join us on this journey. There will be drama, reflection, story-sharing, and commitment to challenging racism. We begin by honouring our own stories and cultures, and striving to build antiracist culture from a place of support and strength.
  
  SCM is a member of the March 21 anti-racism coalition, working to organize a week of awareness events for racial justice. Events include a cabaret, panel, art gallery, story-telling night, and Filipino history talk. [March 21 Coalition website]. Other events:
  
  
  • FRI MARCH 18: CABARET (6pm @ Vertigo Lounge, UVic)
  • SUN MARCH 20: SHATTERING THE SILENCE PANEL (2-4 pm @ MacLaurin Bldg, D288, UVic)
  • MON MARCH 21: ANTIRACISM ON AIR (noon - 8 pm, CFUV 101.9FM)
  • MON MARCH 21: DIY SILKSCREENING WORKSHOP (6-9 pm / register)
  
  
  
  

racial justice

Thursday, March 17 :: 6:30-9pm
@ Hailey's (1537-#3 Gladstone, near Belmont St)

• See our anti-racism & the SCM page
  
  David presented the first part of an interactive and engaging workshop on racial justice & privilege at our potluck. Through drama, discussion, personal story-telling and scriptural study, we laid the foundations for further antiracism work, seeking to move from white culture of power to white antiracist cultures.
  
  
  
  
  

thinkfast!

Saturday March 5
@ Holy Cross Catholic Church

senior friends gathering

Sunday March 6

• David met with our movement's past graduates in Vancouver, the BC Senior Friends. We shared what has inspired us about the movement in our lives, and how we see its future.
  
  
  

no one is illegal!

Rally: Sat, March 5 :: noon
@ Immigration Offices (816 government st)

• This rally is to raise awareness that Canada detains so-called "terrorism" suspects without trial, charges or evidence, using post-911 "security certificates". Here is the SCM's position:

  The Student Christian Movement see the detention of humans through security certificates as a violation of dignity, fairness and human rights. Racial profiling and the war on 'terror' are unconsitutional. They are also unjust and immoral. We call for the right to a fair trial and an end to all forms of racism