A Gradual Awakening

🙏 In the latest Prayerline, discover what happened in Moldova when students invited peers to hear the gospel despite scepticism on campus.   Learn how they sparked serious interest and pray for them and student leaders in Eurasia.   

In this Voices of IFES, Dr Femi Adeleye offers insights from Ezra 7:1-10, showing how a deep grounding in the Scriptures can transform individuals and influence nations. He call us all to recognise the sovereign hand of God on our lives and recommit to reading, studying, meditating on, and living out the Word of God. With inspirational testimonies from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda.    Alongside 30+ years in regional and international IFES roles, Femi is currently Director for Africa at Langham preaching and Director of the Institute for Christian Impact. This talk was recorded in September 2024 by the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF), Great Britain. It forms the first of three “Rooted” talks by Femi at Forum, an annual training event run by UCCF for student leaders.  

🙏 In the latest Prayerline, learn how a student’s ministry experience at high school led to the launch of a group at university. Find out what happened in Suriname when a student’s willing heart met a staff worker’s tenacious vision – and pray for them

In this Voices of IFES episode, Abygale Elliott – a student leader in the InterSchool/InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the Cayman Islands – shares from her experiences as a student leader.  As part of a webinar for IFES Global Giving Day 2025, she speaks to Annette Arulrajah, IFES Associate General Secretary. Discover how Abygale came to faith and what she’s gained from being part of IFES through global, regional, and local opportunities. She also shares what she considers to be three core values of leadership, how her training will help her when she graduates, and why IFES initiatives that develop leaders are worth funding. 

🙏 Discover what “beautiful things” are happening on one campus in French-speaking Canada. Listen how God is at work through curious students and ministry partnerships. Pray for them today 

In this Voices of IFES, Michel Kenmogne (IFES Board Chair) offers deep encouragement from Isaiah 43 – “it's from a place of hopelessness that God says everything will be new”.   Michel shows how these verses call us to remember our identity in the Lord, seek God’s presence, and trust God for the impossible – even in difficult circumstances. Here is a stirring invitation to trust in God as the One who can make a way where there is no way and turn wastelands into rivers.  Recorded on 23 January as part of Global Prayer Day 2025: New Beginnings, an online gathering for IFES staff and national movements to share and pray together for the year ahead. 

Discover how God worked in a student in Cambodia over many months. Read her story and be encouraged that awakenings can sometimes be gradual – and pray for students in Cambodia and SONOKO’s ministry

The intense pressures and bright possibilities of student ministry in Singapore with Prarthini Selveindran  Since COVID-19, pressure on students’ time has become increasingly intense in FES Singapore, and many other IFES movements in East Asia. Yet, FES staff worker Prarthini Selveindran says student leaders are sacrificially finding ways to serve.     On this Voices of IFES, Prarthi shares thoughtfully and honestly from her experiences. Learn how she’s engaging with the culture of performance and pressure, what her joys and challenges are, how she’s rethinking “success in ministry”, and why she’s excited about the launch of the Logos and Cosmos Initiative in East Asia. 

Devoted, watchful, and thankful. In this Voices of IFES, Tim Adams (IFES General Secretary) encourages us to pray by reflecting on Colossians 4:2. He calls us to pray throughout 2025 for unreached campuses, troubled places, and our own local contexts.  Recorded on 23 January as part of Global Prayer Day 2025 – an online gathering for IFES staff and national movements to share and pray together for the year ahead. 

💯 Every issue? Every conversation? Every decision?  In the latest Prayerline, learn how students in Honduras have been seeing the relevance of Scripture to EVERY issue discussed on campus – and to ALL of life. Discover how Rocio and Suany, CCUH (@Comunidad Cristiana Universitaria de Honduras) staff workers, passed on their passion for the Word to student leaders at a national training camp.   Hear about “changed perspectives” and “re-ordered priorities” – and pray for them all as they share and show the Word 👇