As Chancellor of the University of Tubingen, Andreas Rothfuss leads one of the top research universities in Germany. Becoming Chancellor is not the career that he planned when he came to Portland State University (PSU) in 1992 to work on a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.
Andreas came to Portland to prepare for a career in business. And he was also looking for a community of Christian believers. Andreas had been a leader in a group at the University of Mannheim that was a part of SMD, the German affiliate of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).
One day to change the world and it’s a 48 hour day. The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) is observing World Student Day on Friday, October 21, 2011. It’s a day when everyone who cares about student ministry and its ability to shape the leaders of tomorrow can join in a global prayer meeting to pray in unity for students and the ministries that reach out to them.
Twice as Long
World Student Day starts when October 21st begins at midnight for students in Tonga, in the first time zone beyond the international dateline. This day of prayer and student unity will end 48 hours later at midnight for students in Samoa, the last time zone before the international dateline.
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The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students observed World Student Day on Friday, October 21st.
InterVarsity staff, students, and alumni, are saddened to hear of the passing of John R. W. Stott, Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church in London and Urbana conference expositor from 1964 to 1979.
According to the All Souls Church website, “John Stott died in his retirement home at St. Barnabas College at 3:15pm on Wednesday July 27th. He was surrounded by Frances Whitehead, and a number of good friends. They were reading the Scriptures and listening to Handel’s Messiah when he peacefully went to be with his Lord and Saviour.”
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InterVarsity staff, students, and alumni, are saddened to hear of the passing of John R. W. Stott, Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church in London and Urbana conference expositor from 1964 to 1979.
About 650 Christian leaders from 150 nations are gathered this week and next on the campus of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, for the quadrennial World Assembly of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. A delegation of 44 from InterVarsity staff is attending.
This Assembly is hosted by ChSA, the IFES affiliate in Poland. Twenty years ago, after the fall of Communism, ChSA was the first Christian student movement from Eastern Europe to join IFES. Part of this year’s World Assembly will celebrate the growth of student ministry across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since 1989.
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The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students is holding its quadrennial World Assembly at a university in Krakow, Poland, and InterVarsity staff are there.
Vivienne Stacey, one of the great women in the history of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, has gone to be with the Lord she loved and served for so long. In her own words, “I began as a missionary from the West. I became a missionary from the East and I ended up a world Christian.”
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"Ordinary people can do extraordinary things with God's help."
For ten days in early March, I had the great privilege of meeting with the presidents – named “general secretaries” in the rest of the world – from over 130 sister national student movements. The conference, held in Malaysia, was hosted by the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) of which InterVarsity/USA is a founding member. The hospitality was fabulous. The Malaysian staff team is pictured above. Annette Arulrajah, the Malaysian General Secretary, is at left below.
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For ten days in early March, Alec Hill met with the leaders of more than 130 of our sister national student movements.
On March 8-9, 2008, members of the Ebenezer Lutheran Brethren Church of Minneapolis hosted Daniel Bourdanné, the general secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).
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A Minnesota church played a key role in leadership development for an international ministry
Just before InterVarsity staff travelled from campuses around the U.S. to St. Louis for our triennial Staff Conference in early January, some 350 students representing 22 nations gathered at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Rwanda.
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InterVarsity staff donate to support student ministry in Africa
At its 2007 World Assembly in Ontario, Canada, Dr Daniel Bourdanné of Chad became the fourth General Secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), succeeding Lindsay Brown. The Fellowship’s primary calling is to proclaim Christ in the world’s universities. Now in its 60th anniversary year, IFES has movements in 152 nations, with only 17 countries still to be pioneered.
A highlight of World Assemblies is the welcome of new national movements into the Fellowship. It can take anywhere from 8-15 years to move from the pioneering stage to formal affiliation.
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Quadrennial global gathering recognizes new growth
_InterVarsity president Alec Hill was among about 75 InterVarsity/USA staff attending the World Assembly of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, held July 11-19 in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. About 600 representatives from 140 countries, representing movements reaching 400,000 students, attended the World Assembly. Just before his departure to visit Global Projects in Asia, Alec discussed his experiences at his second World Assembly.
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An interview with InterVarsity president Alec Hill
