Salt Exhibition at Church of Divine Mercy

The purpose of the exhibition is to share our experiences in joining SALT III in hope that we can create awareness on the realities faced by the Indigenous Peoples particularly the Kayan and Kenyah community in Sarawak, thus creating a platform for people to help the marginalized and getting involve in Human Rights works.

We also hope that through this exhibition, we are able to generate some funds for the Mini Library Project at Long Lawen, Ulu Bakun, Sarawak that we are working on.

The Mini Library Project is initiated and jointly-organized by the participants from SALT III of various coordinating councils, namely Penang Coordinating Council (PCC), Melaka-Johor Coordinating Council (MJCC), Kuala Lumpur Coordinating Council (KLCC) and Kuching Campus Ministry (KCM). It is inspired during SALT III and is recognized by the Malaysian Catholic Students’ Council (MCSC). We, also the members of CSS+SA are the participants of SALT III are representing KLCC.

SALT is an acronym for School of Acting Justly, Loving Tenderly and Treading Humbly with God, organized by Campus Ministry, Roman Catholic, Diocese of Melaka-Johor. It is a school with a space and time for effective bonding amongst the participants, fostering a sense of teamship, partnership and communion among themselves.


The programme is aimed at:
1. Cultivating a growing sense of solidarity with the marginalized in our society.
2. Equipping each participant with the spiral pedagogy of experience and reflection in the light of faith.
3. Enabling participants to understand God’s perennial calling humankind to promote human rights, justice, gender sensitivity in relation to refugees, Indigenous People, women and environment.
4. Empowering them to become committed agents of social transformation.

SALT is held once a year in hope to reach out to the marginalized and the oppressed. SALT I was held at Malacca with an objective to extend their compassions as well as discovering the realities faced by the marginalized immigrants in Malaysia. While, SALT II was held at Ulu Belaga, Sarawak aimed to take participants to explore and discover the social economic impact Bakun Dam construction inflicts on the indigenous community it displaced. Taking the programme to the next level, SALT III was once again held in response to the realities faced by the indigenous people in Bakun. Only this time we discovered the issue was more serious as we got to experience living with the indigenous community at Long Lawen. The people of Long Lawen chose not to be moved to Sg. Asap-Koyan resettlement area. We saw the spirit in them fighting to keep what is left from their real identity, which is the forest.

Calling all interested university student in Kuala Lumpur area to join SALT 4, place are limited.

Next SALT will be held in Sabah on Kaiduan Dam. Please contact Amanda at amandaleonie@gmail.com for more info.

ICG T-shirt competition

SHALOM BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST…….

Inter-Campus Gathering 2009 will be held on 19-22 September 2009, at Majodi Center, Plentong, Johor. Therefore, the ICG-2009 committee would like to invite all friends (MJCC, KLCC, PCC) to participate in the ICG T-shirt competition. The rules and regulations for the ICG T-shirt competition are as follows:

Rules & Regulations:

1. The design must be original.
2. You may send as many entries as you want.
3. The colors used in the design should be minimal. The fact that the T-shirt is attractive and impressive but also cost effective must be considered. (Maximum colors that can be used are 3 colors).
4. The winner will be chosen based on their creativity of design that reflect on ICG 2009 theme, “O.R.A.I.T.!!” (Our Religion As The “In-Thing”)
5. All designs submitted will not be returned. Once the designs are submitted, we have the copyright of the design. The committee will have the right to modify and use the designs that are submitted to us. Judges decision is final!
6. The designs must be submitted in softcopy (JPEG format).

The closing date for this competition is on 5^th July 2009. The winner will be contacted soon afterwards. Entries and your details (name, contact number, CSS/CUS) can be emailed to Fiona Fabian (fay_luke@yahoo.com).

Description on the theme:

“O.R.A.I.T!” ~ Our Religion As the ‘In Thing’.

Many people today, the youth especially, tend to separate religion from the rest of their lives. God, for them, exists only in the church and any relationship with Him tends to be confined to Sunday masses or feast days of the Church. Religion is not a cool thing. Praying and charitable acts are seen as nice but not cool. The active living out of one's faith is not considered hip or exciting for the youth because it does not seem to correspond to their idea of what is cool, hip and "happening". In short, religion is not the "In Thing". Ipods, notebooks and gadgets, cybergaming,techno music, Korean tv series, F1, the fashion and lifestyles of American idols are "In" but religion and faith, for most young people, is "Out".

At ICG 2009, we want to address this mindset. We want to ask the participants as university students of this generation, "What is cool, hip and happening for you as an undergrad?" After that, we want to challenge their view and mindset that religon is not cool. We want to show that it is possible to be a cool and hip Christian who actively witnesses to Christ because when He was on earth, Christ was the coolest guy alive and He still is!! We just do not know it.

At ICG 2009, we aim to show them that youth can be cool, hip, happening and Christ-centered too. We want to bring participants to a greater awareness and appreciation of the importance of putting Christ FIRST in their lives and that religion is not separated from their young and hip lifestyles. Indeed, religion is the base and foundation of that cool, hip and happening lifestyle.

We believe that as young, responsible Malaysians in colleges and universities, we can authentically witness to the work of Christ only when our faith is fully integrated with our lifestyles, more so, in face of the many challenges our world is going through today.

In short, we want to be effective and “cool” witnesses for Christ! Our religion is the "In Thing" and we intend to prove it at ICG 2009! ORAIT!!