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Melbourne SCM Bible study
Join Melbourne SCM for Bible study at Zak's home on Monday 3 June as we continue to look at the Letter to the Ephesians.
Dinner from 6:30pm, Bible study discussion from 7:30pm.
This event is held in a private home. Please RSVP online, or contact Claudine at vicscm@ascm.org.au or 0418 592 269 for the address or if you have any dietary requirements.
Melbourne SCM Bible study
Join Melbourne SCM for Bible study on Monday, 6 May, at Zak's home in the CBD, as we continue our look at the Letter to the Ephesians.
Dinner from 6:30pm, Bible study discussion from 7:30pm.
This event is held in a private home. Please RSVP here, or contact Claudine at vicscm@ascm.org.au or 0418 592 269 for the address or if you have any dietary requirements.
Melbourne SCM Bible study
Join Melbourne SCM for Bible study on Friday 5 April.
Bible study continues in 2019 with a series on the Letter to the Ephesians.
Dinner from 6:30pm, Bible study discussion from 7:30pm.
This event is held in a private home. Please RSVP online, or contact Claudine at vicscm@ascm.org.au or 0418 592 269 for the address or if you have any dietary requirements.
Melbourne SCM will once again join the annual Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees at the State Library of Victoria.
Speakers include
Music from 1.30pm, Speakers from 2pm. Walk from 2.45pm to Kings Domain for music by Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir and others.
Register here or email vicscm@ascm.org.au if you would like to meet up and walk with SCM.
We invite all friends of the Australian Student Christian Movement to our National Conference and senior friends’ reunion in Canberra in July. This event will give us the opportunity to meet old and new friends, share ideas, share lunch together and talk about solutions to some of the world’s big problems, combining the wisdom of experience with the enthusiasm of youth.
The conference and senior friends’ reunion will be held:
Date : Saturday 13 July 2019
Time : 9.00 am to 5.00 PM
Venue : Holy Cross Anglican Church, Hackett, ACT (Canberra)
This conference is free.
RSVP, preferably by 1 June 2019, to Robert Tulip - phone 0407 866 777 or email conference@ascm.org.au.
For more details regarding the conference, please visit https://ascm.org.au/conference-2019.
ASCM Annual General Meeting and National Conference 2019
Dear Senior Friends,
We take great pleasure in inviting you to the 2019 Australian Student Christian Movement National Conference and senior friends’ reunion in Canberra in July. This event will give us the opportunity to meet old and new friends, share ideas, share lunch together and talk about solutions to some of the world’s big problems, combining the wisdom of experience with the enthusiasm of youth. We are deeply grateful that you, as our senior friends, have supported the movement all these years, and are pleased to provide this event free of charge. We would love to have you attend to deepen links between generations as we look to the future.
The conference and senior friends’ reunion will be held:
Date : Saturday 13 July 2019
Time : 9.00 am to 5.00 PM
Venue : Holy Cross Anglican Church, Hackett, ACT (Canberra)
This conference is free.
RSVP, preferably by 1 June 2019, to Robert Tulip - phone 0407 866 777 or email conference@ascm.org.au. Please let Robert know if you would like help with accommodation, as we hope supportive church members will assist with billeting.
For more details regarding the conference, please visit https://ascm.org.au/conference-2019.
Your presence at this conference is important to us, and we would be honoured to have the input of the older generations to support us younger folks as we endeavour to ensure ASCM will continue to present an active, critical, open and ecumenical voice of Christian faith among Australian students. We look forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
John Probhudan Biswas
National Coordinator, ASCM
Join Melbourne SCM for Bible study on Friday 1 March.
Bible study continues for 2019 with a series on the Letter to the Ephesians. We will look at one chapter per month for the next six months.
Dinner from 6pm, Bible study discussion from 7:30pm.
This event is held in a private home. Please RSVP online, or contact Claudine at vicscm@ascm.org.au or 0418 592 269 for the address or if you have any dietary requirements.
Bible study returns for 2019 with a series on the Letter to the Ephesians. We will look at one chapter per month for the next six months. We intend to rotate the leadership of each session, with a different person each month to read the chapter beforehand and prepare three questions about it. Christine Tsoi will lead the first session.
We hope to continue to meet the first Friday of each month (except for May when we'll meet on the second Friday so Ann can attend). So our first meeting this year will be on Friday 1 February, 2019. Ann's place as usual, dinner from 6 pm onwards (please feel free to bring anything extra that you'd like to add to the menu, just advise Ann beforehand).
Please RSVP online, or contact Claudine at vicscm@ascm.org.au or 0418 592 269 for Ann's address or if you have any dietary requirements.
ASCM and SCM Indonesia appeal for victims of earthquake and tsunami in Palu and Donggala
The Australian Student Christian Movement is helping SCM Indonesia (GMKI) to support victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu and Donggala. Visit our website for a report from GMKI volunteers.
If you would like to make a donation then please send via:
Australian bank transfer to ASCM
BSB: 06-2000 (Commonwealth Bank)
Account number: 0092-2944
Account name: Australian Student Christian Movement
Please send a confirmation email to andika_mongilala@ascm.org.au
OR Via International bank transfer to Indonesia SCM
Swift code: BMRIIDJAXXX
Bank Name: Bank Mandiri Persero PT
Account name: Gerakan Mahasiswa Kristen Indonesia
Account number: 122-000-509-9901
Recipient address: Jl. Salemba Raya, No 10, Jakarta Pusat. (postcode 10430) Indonesia
or you can donate directly to Indonesian Redcross
The campaign will close on 21 October 2018.
23 September 2018
To
Members/Senior friends
Australian Student Christian Movement
Dear senior friend,
Our sincere thanks to members/senior friends last year for their support in helping us run programs around Australia, in East Timor and to send representatives from ASCM to ecumenical events.
Thanks to your support we were able to carry out the following activities:
Held Bible studies in Newcastle and Victorian SCM every month, meetings in Queensland at university campus and regular meetings with a focus on social justice in Canberra, along with a Canberra SCM senior friends reunion
Sent a delegate to attend the UN Commission on the status of women in New York as a member of the World Student Christian Federation Asia Pacific (WSCF AP) delegation
Sent a delegate to the WSCF AP Capacity Building Training in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Helped to rebuild East Timor SCM, previously non-active
Sent a delegate to a WSCF AP regional program on peace building in the Korean Peninsula
Employed three paid staff at the national level and four paid staff in Victoria, Newcastle, Canberra and Queensland to support our state and national work
Sent a delegate to attend the Justice Conference in Melbourne
Campaigned and showed our support for marriage equality by releasing a public statement
Published a December 2017 edition of the SCM Post
Held our National Executive Meeting via Skype in February 2018 and our Annual Conference and AGM in Perth in July 2018
Raised funds to help with renovations of the WSCF AP office in Hong Kong to generate income, with this fundraising initiative coordinated and led by senior friend Revd. David Gill
This financial year we will continue to run the same activities, with the following new initiatives:
New program to promote East Timor Reconciliation (Australia, Indonesian and East Timor SCM) and employ a few local staff to rebuild East Timor SCM with supervision from WSCF AP
Visit Indonesian SCM to plan a long-term working relationship
Build Solomon Islands SCM through our Solomon Islands Liaison Officer
Send delegates to attend all WSCF programs where possible
Increase our delegation to attend Voices for Justice in Canberra in December 2018
Hire new staff in WA
Hold the 2019 AGM and National conference in Canberra with a national senior friends reunion
For further details, see the next online edition of the SCM Post due at the end of this year or early next year.
ASCM still needs donations for this financial year of around $13,000 to support our programs.
We rely on the support of our senior friends like you and thank you sincerely for your donations and support in other ways.
To make an online donation via credit card, please follow these steps:
Visit our website: http://www.ascm.org.au/
Click on ‘support ASCM’ at the top of the page and then click on ‘donate online’.
Alternatively, you can donate directly through the following link
If you wish to make ongoing contributions, we suggest you choose recurring (monthly, quarterly or yearly) so that the donation will be automatically debited from your account.
Alternatively, you also can send cheques via post to:
Australian Student Christian Movement
PO Box 4386
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
VIC 3052
To go paperless
To follow our activities online, please subscribe to our email newsletter at http://ascm.org.au/newsletter and follow our Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/AustralianStudentChristianMovement/ to see what we have done and what we plan to do.
National Senior Friends’ Reunion
We plan to invite you to the National Senior Friends reunion in Canberra in July 2019. Please sign up here https://goo.gl/XoSrXw and we will send more information by electronic mail.
To make a bequest for the general purposes of ASCM:
“I bequeath (insert specific amount; percentage of estate; residue of estate; etc) to the Australian Student Christian Movement, to be applied for general purposes of the said organisation.”
To make a bequest to the ASCM Centenary Trust Fund:
“I bequeath (insert specific amount; percentage of estate; residue of estate; etc) to the Australian Student Christian Movement Centenary Trust Fund, to be applied for general purposes of the said Trust.”
If neither of these suit your wishes, your solicitor or professional adviser will be able to construct the right wording for you. For further information from ASCM, please email andika_mongilala@ascm.org.au
Kind Regards
Andika Mongilala
National Treasurer
Account
Actual Expenses 2017/2018
Budget
2018/2019
AGM Newcastle
1,016.99
AGM Perth
3,000.00
Honorarium staff worker
22,673.00
25,560.00
WSCF Membership
672.01
700.00
WSCF AP/Global program
1,800.31
4,000.00
Visit Indonesian SCM
1,000.00
Visit East Timor SCM
2,000.00
NATSIEC
300.00
300.00
Webshosting
209.95
209.95
PO Box renewal
132.00
132.00
Stamp and postage
40.00
50.00
Office bearer expenses
17.80
100.00
Newsletter and appeal letter
500.00
East Timor Mission
3,000.00
MICAH Fee
165.00
165.00
Justice Conference
610.78
1,000.00
Voices for Justice Conference
1,000.00
Other state expenses
100.00
NSW SCM expenses
15.00
Attendance at other programs
1,000.00
Bank Fees
39.10
40.00
Total expense and other expense
27,691.94
43,856.95
AGM in Perth 2018
ACT Seniors friends Gathering 2017
ASCM delegate to the UN, New York USA
National coordinator visit to the ACT
ACT SCM Monthly discussion
East Timor Bible study in Dili 2018
WSCF Program in Korean Peninsula
