Letter of Call
World Student Christian Federation North American Regional Executive
Advocacy and Solidarity Program Director

The life of WSCF is based on local ecumenical groups of students called SCMs – Student Christian Movements – in universities and colleges who work, study and pray together. Presently there are 117 affiliated student groups in 94 countries, reaching out to over 2 million members worldwide. The North American Region is a fellowship of diverse ecumenical and denominational student Christian movements in Canada and the United States.

The WSCF seeks a regional staff person with a vision for nurturing dynamic ecumenical student movements in the US and Canada; committed to social justice; and desiring to work as part of an international team on global student concerns. This role will be under a 2-year contract with the opportunity to renew for a maximum of 8 years. Salary and Benefits are negotiable.

The North American Regional Executive and Program Director for Advocacy and Solidarity will serve as part of the WCSF’s staff team currently comprised of 7 executive staff – a General Secretary in the Inter-Regional Office (IRO) in Geneva (currently based in the Philippines), and the five other regional executives located in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific, and a Fundraising staff.

The Regional Executive is employed by WSCF’s Executive Committee and supervised by the North American Regional Committee (NARC). The WSCF Regional Executive is responsible for coordinating, managing, supporting, organizing, and expanding the WSCF activities in his/her region according to the WSCF Constitution and WSCF Executive Committee, and guidance from NARC.

The responsibilities of this role fall into five areas:

• Organization & Communications
• Project Planning
• Finance/Administration
• Personnel
• Advocacy & Solidarity

See the complete Letter of Call for more details

Application Submission Information & Details

Qualifications: Preferred candidates for this position should have the following qualifications.

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s from an accredited University
• Relevant job experience

Location: The Regional Office is currently located in New York, New York. Staff have the option to work remotely and will not be required to relocate to New York City. Relocation of the office will also be negotiated after its lease is complete.

Travel: This position includes travel to National, Regional, and Global events. Travel can be expected for 30-40% of the year.

Compensation: As mentioned above, salary and benefits will be negotiated. The Executive Committee of the Federation will finalize staff salaries and the Regional Committee will calculate their contribution based on the cost-of-living, experience, and regional capabilities.

Please submit the following materials by October 20, 2017. The position will remain open until filled.

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Personal Statement 500-1000 words (this can be about your faith, theology, or social justice journey)

Logan B. Boese
President | World Student Christian Federation North American Regional Council
Chair |North American Regional Executive Search Committee

Electronically: loganboese@gmail.com

Logan Boese
3005 Triverton Pike Dr.
Fitchburg, WI U.S.A. 53711
Apt. 205

It’s 9am and you can smell toast, eggs and jam in the air. The sun is streaming through the big window that looks out onto rue University, and the common room at the college is abuzz with laughter.

Friday, September 15, was the soft launch of the Holy Toast / La sainte rôtie breakfast worship service. The liturgy was fresh off the printer, meaningful, riddled with mistakes (including Jesus. The daughter of God—en Française) and bilingual. The jam was all homemade (apple pear and peach) and deliciously smeared across crispy pieces of toast. There were homemade muffins, murmured confessions, and loud happy singing. Though the group was small, eight core people, it was filled with hope and humility. As well, eight was a great turn out considering breakfast with the former Archbishop of Canterbury was taking place a block away at the Anglican seminary. 

The group will be meeting every second Friday morning for the rest of the term. Sharing breakfast, stories, music and a little bit of our lives. The passion is to see a bilingual, contemporary, liturgical, social justice and totally LGBTQIA inclusive service available to folks from campuses in the downtown core. We’re proud to have UQAM, UdeM, Concordia and McGill students as part of our community.

If you’re in Montréal, considering joining us. There’s always room at the table. 

The Holy Toast Community | La communauté de la sainte rôtie

Email the coordinator

Cahoots Festival Highlight Video from Caro Ibrahim on Vimeo.

Read the ‘Back to School Newsletter‘ with details of our summer activities and some of what we are looking forward to this autumn.

University of Toronto is continuing its tradition of Radical Bible Studies. We use a methodology that allows each participant to offer from their own life experience and draw their own conclusions about the Bible texts.

The UofT and York University branches of the SCM are holding a one-day retreat on Saturday 23rd Sept, exploring peacemaking, inclusion and creativity in ‘God’s Kitchen’. Read more here

The Holy Toast Community | La communauté de la sainte rôtie

SCM Montreal/MÉC-Montréal is hosting a biweekly gathering – Holy Toast / La Sainte Rôtie – for those who love Jesus, breakfast, and great conversation!

Our friends in Edmonton are working hard on the amazing conference Your Faith on Feminism. If you’re able to attend this October 20-22, you can learn more and register here.

If you’re not able to attend, please consider making a donation so that others can participate!

Heading into another school year, we are thankful for the chance to represent Jesus and the Church on campus. Our concerns with radical ecumenism and solidarity with the oppressed sometimes set us apart from other Christian groups on campus, and we are grateful for all the support we receive from campus chaplains, local ministers, and Senior Friends.

The latest Federation News is ready to read! – download it here.

Featuring reports, articles, analysis and prayer from:

• Cairo conference on Peace-building in the Middle East and Overcoming Violence
• Online General Assembly & constitutional amendments
• Global programme on Identity, Diversity & Dialogue
• Asia-Pacific, and Latin America & Caribbean
• WSCF-Europe training course on combating hate speech
• The un-settling work of indigenous solidarity: a North American perspective
• Tributes to Senior friends

We are thankful for the ongoing work of the staff and volunteers throughout the regions of the World Student Christian Federation.

That All May Be One!

Read Federation News here

Mamawe Ota Askihk – Sharing Life Together Here on Earth

October 16-20 – small group
October 20-21 – overnight SCM retreat
October 21 – larger event
Beausejour, Manitoba

Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, Ploughshares Community Farm, Canadian Mennonite University, Student Christian Movement & the Feast for Friends partners present : a festival & a feast for friends

Gather with Indigenous community leaders and settler allies to to reclaim the homebred, the homespoken, the homegrown, and the homemade.

Come root yourself in an understanding of the land as our health. Share in the spiritual teaching, laughter, and new learning. And most importantly, taste the beauty of friendships formed through nurturing one another as the earth nurtures us.

October 16 – 20: A week-long festival where we’ll winnow wild rice, tan an animal hide, smoke fish, can berry preserves, share skills and tell stories.

October 21: The “Feast for Friends” will wrap up our week with a day of games, ceremony, show & tell, and of course, sharing good food together.

To register and learn more, see the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre Website

To participate in a Friday night retreat for SCMers, contact info@scmcanada.org

What?​ Your Faith on Feminism Conference
When?​ October 20 – 22, 2017
Where?​ St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta, Edmonton
How?​ Please register by filling out the Registration Form​. Call for Papers below, or read here.
Fee?​ Registration costs vary from $100 – $275 CAD based on billeting and student status.

Your Faith on Feminism is an interfaith and ecumenical conference where feminist advocates of various ages and walks of life will share ideas, build community and participate in worship.

Friday evening to Sunday, the program will encompass discussion-based educational and creative breakout sessions, music and worship, and reflections on what it means to be a feminist in the present, global
atmosphere of fear, war and oppression.

Individuals and groups are invited to submit papers at any stage of the writing process to be workshopped in an informal, academic group environment, facilitated by experienced and knowledgeable feminist advocates but with the understanding that everyone has wisdom.

A set of conference papers will be published on the ideas presented and discussed by participating students and ministers, including the influence of workshops and the community.

Participants of all intersections, including age, race, culture, gender, size, ability, sexuality and faith, will contribute to their collective knowledge on diversity in feminism and enrich their activism with interfaith dialogue, friendships and intergenerational context. Relationships of mutual giving will develop across distance and divides both literal and figurative to help empower women and feminist advocates of various faiths to create meaningful change in their communities.

Download Your Faith On Feminism (PDF) here.

Call for Papers
Feminist advocacy is, as bell hooks has said, a movement to end sexist oppression. Sexist oppression enacted on different groups and identities confers varying degrees of power and privilege (or a lack thereof) to different aspects of our identities. Feminism must—or ought to, by the great diversity of its advocates—be an intersectional movement. As people of faith, in all our varying contexts, we are called to challenge injustices and empower each other to free ourselves from spiritual, emotional and physical bondage.

Feminisms must subvert misogyny and patriarchy wherever they are found, including in our holy texts. Feminist theology intersects with and incorporates rich and diverse ways of understanding and critiquing both feminism and faith, such as liberation theology or queer theology.

This conference focuses on how faith and feminisms come together, sometimes explosively, in our time of global political upheaval, war, oppression and increased fear of the other.

We are seeking papers at any stage of the writing process that are rooted in faith and use intersectional feminist theology to address at least one of the following themes:
● Terrorism and fear
● War
● Racism
● Xenophobia
● Islamophobia
● Antisemitism
● Colonialism and reconciliation
● Gender identity
● Sexual orientation

Abstracts (limit 300 words) can be sent to wscfna@gmail.com for review.
The deadline for submissions is August 18, 2017 and participants will be informed of acceptance by October 1, 2017. Participation from all walks of life is welcome and celebrated.

Post-conference, finished papers and reflections will be published, if consent is given, by World Student Christian Federation North America.

September 21, 2017, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Please join us to hear an update about the WSCF from Luciano Kovacs, North American Staff for the World Student Christian Federation.
This is also an opportunity to celebrate and thank Luciano for his almost ten-year contribution to the leadership of the WSCF in North America and the global Federation before he leaves WSCF at the end of December.

Peter Haresnape, Coordinator of the SCM in Canada will also bring us an update. All welcome.

Christie Gardens
600 Melita Cres.
Toronto
Recreation Room, Lower Level
7:00-9:00 p.m.
RSVP andersonbetsy528@gmail.com or 416-656-6064

2017 09 21 Celebration

2017 09 21 Invitation

Advance Donation

It’s been a little over a month since Cahoots 2017, and we’ve already received a donation for next year from a “kindred spirit” who was unable to attend this year’s fest! Thanks so much to our anonymous donor!

Cahoots is made possible through your donations, so if you’d like to contribute to another year of faith, justice, and DIY, you can do so through the Cahoots fund of SCM Canada. Contact our office or donate online, perhaps through CanadaHelps (click here), or through Chimp (click here).

Donations help us offer affordable tickets to students and lower-income individuals and families. We are deeply grateful to all our donors, and to the Women’s Inter-Church Council of Canada for their generous support!

Creative & Critical Bible Stories

Sunday morning at Cahoots involved a rather raucous retelling of the Genesis Creation Story by the children, featuring animal sounds, ribbon dances, and critiquing interjections.

If you would like to access the script as a resource, you can find it: (click here)

Matched Donations – up to $150 each!

Did you know that Chimp.ca is offering up to match donations of up to $150 over 6 months (up to $25/month for six months)? They are hoping to inspire charitable giving in Canada, so if you’re looking to donate to the SCM or another awesome charitable cause today, this is a good way to go about it!

http://weare.chimp.net/give150