BCSF Facilitator: Paul Wagler

A Mountain of Spiritual Quest

A retired Wall Street company executive blogs about life. Some of you may remember Paul Wagler from previous BC Student Forums. Paul Wagler retired a few years ago from a career in finance and as a company executive to become a writer. He is a Harvard graduate and led a successful career on wall Street.

He offers his insight on faith, economics and wealth in his blog: http://abbeymountain.blogspot.com/ and http://paulwagler.blogspot.com/

BCSF Facilitator: Wesley Lowe

Faith and Film

Save the Date! May 5th-6th 2011

More details about the BC Student Forum 2011 to come! Stay tuned!

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BCSF Facilitator: Cory Fry

Passion in the Marketplace

I work in business development with a health & wellness consulting firm. I have been part of the BC Student Forum 3 times and have been affiliated with related events multiple times throughout university.

The BCSF has impacted me in the following ways: introduced me to a network of Christian business people, academics, and students – encouraged me to pursue my passions in the marketplace – reminded me of the importance of integrating with my community. I often feel that Christians engage others from a “Christian Zone” rather than just bringing who they are in Christ to their community, work, relationships. Attending the forum has impacted my faith, as I have met people there who are mentor figures who have challenged me. I also have learned more about the character of God and how He continues to work in so many people’s lives.      – Cory Fry

BCSF Alumni: Miranda Landry

Human Kinetics and Humans

Miranda Landry came to the BC Student Forum in 2006 as a Human Kinetics student at UBC. She has assisted in the planning of the UBC Student CrossOver Series. She is now a manager at Hyatt Regency in Vancouver and program manager of Womyn’s Gym, a not for profit program in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, providing free fitness programs for marginalized and at-risk women. Trainers are current and former female Human Kinetics students looking for a meaningful way to apply their kinesiology training in their community.

“So many ‘professional development’ seminars give you advice. At the Student Forum you get more. Rather than advice they give you truth.” – Miranda Landry

BCSF Facilitator: Trixie Ling

Fighting Poverty and Homelessness in BC

“I am a Research and Policy Analyst for Streetohome Foundation. I attended the National Student Forum in Ottawa in 2007 while studying at Trinity Western University’s Laurentian Leadership Centre and interning with Citizens for Public Justice in Ottawa. There, I met a couple of friends from the BC Student Forum who came to Ottawa to pursue internships on Parliament Hill. I moved to Vancouver this past fall to pursue my role with Streetohome, a broad community-based initiative designed to address homelessness in Vancouver. Our work brings together people from all sectors of our community: non-profits, community groups, business, governments and citizens.

I attended the BC Student Forum in 2009 as a discussion facilitator. It is encouraging to see and network with other students and professionals who have integrated their faith with their study and work. I believe dialogue between students, junior and senior professionals is important because you can learn from both the success and challenges that others have experienced in their workplace and how their faith has impacted what they are doing. It is also important to have an open space and opportunity to have these kinds of dialogue with leaders in the community. I am working on homelessness issues in Vancouver, but I am also involved in the BC Poverty Reduction Strategy campaign to fight poverty and homelessness in BC.” -Trixie Ling

BCSF Alumni: Amber Ballard

From the Forum to Thailand

“Currently, I work as the Annual Fund Coordinator at Regent College. I’m responsible for raising the organization’s operating budget each year. I have been involved with the Student Forum since 2002. The Student Forum has helped me observe leaders in the marketplace who are good at what they do because they recognize their God-given skills and are open to using them in the Marketplace and in non-traditional roles (volunteering, etc). The BC Student Forum provides an opportunity to gain insight from other professionals in the marketplace on navigating the marketplace as a Christian. Interactions with peers, juniors and seniors allow each person to take away something unique as it relates to their own spiritual and professional journey. I continue to assist an organization in Thailand called the Thai Fund Foundation that works with marginalized people in Thailand including prostitutes, stateless children, farmers, fishermen, AIDS infected and the poor.”        - Amber Ballard