Our partnership with the Student Christian Movement, investing in students and recent graduates since 2011 and bringing to light many “Bonhoeffers” of today.
The project has helped run over a dozen campaigns, had a hand in employing 11 SCM staff members, and reached thousands of students through blogs, resources and relationships, as they work out what Christian living means in the world.
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interns spent a year each on issues from asylum to food waste
11
SCM staff members employed with the project’s support
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campaigns run, from food poverty to peace
2011
Trustees of Project Bonhoeffer approached SCM with an idea: a project to empower students to live out their faith in society by opposing injustice, healing conflict and pointing to signs of hope, inspired by the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
2012
SCM members spent 12 months each on a specific area of concern. Over three years, six interns completed the programme, working on human trafficking, asylum seekers and refugees, youth justice, international development, mental health and food waste. They spent two days a week on placement and two days reflecting and sharing with the wider movement through workshops, blogs, events and SCM’s Movement magazine.
2015
SCM appointed a Project Worker to integrate Faith in Action into local groups: running workshops on Bonhoeffer and theological reflection, creating study resources, writing for the magazine and coordinating SCM’s campaigns, with support for groups in Birmingham and Leeds.
2018
Regional Development Workers delivered Faith in Action workshops in their regions, resources on Bonhoeffer and theological reflection reached members, and themes such as vocation became part of SCM’s events and communications.
Today
A Social Justice Project Worker, “an activist to make other activists”, coordinates social action and equips students to become faith-filled agents of change. A Theology and Resources Project Worker, “a theologian to make other theologians”, helps students reflect theologically and curates SCM’s Faith in Action resources.
With our support, SCM members have campaigned on the inclusion of refugees, food poverty in the UK, peace and the environment.
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