Voices of IFES

♿ “We are the change agents to improve everything to make it disability-friendly” 🦾   Spend five minutes well today⌚... Hear the passion and plea of Lakina Milanzi, an optometry student from Malawi Consider her call to be agents of change, leaving no-one behind in our outreach   Another gem from World Assembly2023!

Have you heard Vinoth Ramachandra’s thought-provoking talk about justice at World Assembly 2023?  💥 “Early Christian theologians, the Church Fathers, challenged the absolutist understandings of wealth and property that undergirded Roman law.   They taught that if I have food in my house that I don't need for my survival, but my next-door neighbour is starving, then the food in my house belongs to...

⏱ Life is short! Life on campus is even shorter! How should we view our time?   In this Bible exposition, Kuzipa Nalwamba (a Program Director at the World Council of Churches and former ZAFES Zambia staff), invites us to take heart in the BIG-PICTURE offered in Psalm 90.   💎 “When we understand life as a gift, the brevity of human life ceases to be a problem. It becomes an opportunity for prayer...

Tim Adams, IFES General Secretary, talks about the “dual reality” of IFES – a strong global fellowship that is often very vulnerable at the local level. How can we serve with hope, joy, and confidence when we feel weak and powerless?   Tim offers encouragement by reminding us of verses in Scripture, sharing about his visits to national movements, and reflecting on the Apostle Paul’s prayer for pow...

1️⃣... 2️⃣... 3️⃣... What three things sum up IFES for you?   In this 75th Anniversary Address at World Assembly 2023 in Jakarta, IFES General Secretary Tim Adams reflects on the history of our unique movement – and highlights three distinctives that are still vital today.

In this podcast, Jonathan Vakaruru, staff with Pacific Students For Christ - PSFC Fiji, shares how their movement engaged with the rise of mental health issues during and after COVID by running a Trauma Healing course.

Four countries: culturally connected yet geographically separated. Four IFES movements: facing many challenges yet serving with joy. Gisela Muñoz gives insights into student ministry in Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.   On this Voices of IFES, learn about the distinctive context, find out why Gisela was drawn into student ministry, and hear her perspective on how the four...

How is your faith making a practical impact among your peers? 🙋🏽‍♀️   See how Compa Mexico has been responding to students experiencing stress, anxiety, and lack of motivation 👇   https://youtu.be/811TScXsAR0?si=LDvw63D5gcnuDEt4

🧠 Mental health is a huge topic and a massive concern. Where do you start? 😕 How can you get advice that’s deep yet simple, professional as well as spiritual?   Right here! 😊   In just 20 minutes, Dr Jessie Dezutter covers: 1. What is mental health? 2. What’s the relationship between religion/faith and mental health? 3. What wisdom does Scripture offer about mental health? 4. What can we practi...

🖤 “I felt betrayed, alone, and hopeless. And I asked God, ‘'Why God, where are you, why? Do you care?’ And then I started to count all the good things that I had done: Lord, I do this, I do that, I do this, I do that. Why? Why Lord? Why did you allow this to happen to me? But for those four years, it was really dark.”  In this talk from World Assembly 2023, Dwi Handayani not only unpacks the emot...

♥🌍 What can creation care look like in practice?   📺 In this talk, Professor Denise-Margaret Thompson gives insights into the impact of climate change and shares about the response of student movements in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Trinidad and Tobago.   💪 “God always raises up a Moses, an Elijah, a Deborah – and the brilliant young people of our movements. And those young people have leverage with...

🌊🔥📈😟 Is there any hope for the world’s environmental crisis?   📺 In this talk, Ed Brown (Executive Director at Care of Creation) tells us there is: “God, in his wisdom, has chosen that a message of hope would come to creation and to society through the church.”   🔎📖 He offers a robust rationale from Scripture to show why creation care is a gospel issue.   📣 And he gives a stirring call to...

It’s a ‘mission field’ of only 2,000 tertiary students, spread over 7 campuses. So, IFES ministry in Vanuatu will never be ‘large scale’. But Joel Atwood, National Director of GNYF Vanuatu, believes the ministry can still have a huge impact.   On this Voices of IFES Joel shares how he left Australia to help plant student ministry in this island nation. Learn about the context, its challenges and j...

☺️ How can you stay contented in God and committed to his kingdom?   Even when life is tough?   In this talk from World Assembly 2023, Naomi Chandrasekharan, a zoology student actively involved with FOCUS - Sri Lanka, explores how Psalm 16 can help us.

How loud? 🙉 Whether booming praises or noisy petitions, God wants to hear them!   Listen to Joel Atwood (National Director of GNYF Vanuatu) explore how Psalm 9 invites us into David's joyful song of salvation – and his heartfelt cry for justice.   💬 “Our praise should be our Witness and our witness should be our praise.”   💬 “We pray not for an end to our enemies, but an end to them as our enem...

When you hear the words “university” or “higher education”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?   🏫🤩🎓🤓💍🤑🎒🥳🎢🤯📚🤣🤝?   At World Assembly, Timothée Joset (IFES Engaging the University global team) and Prarthini Selveindran (FES Singapore) asked that question – and got some surprising answers from participants in person and online!   Let Timothée and Prarthini help you consider the m...

Honest and personal testimonies were an integral part of World Assembly 2023. Here, Sara Børty shares about her experiences of pioneering student ministry in Greenland. It's a touching story of working through disappointments and frustrations – and seeing how God blesses faithful obedience, even if it’s not in the way we were expecting.

🥰 “What you delight in determines your destiny.”   Listen to this insightful exposition by Dr Riad Kassis unpacking God’s invitation to human flourishing (Psalm 1) and global wellbeing (Psalm 2).   🤔 He clears up three common misconceptions – including ideas around blessing and being blessed. 👉 And he shows how these two poems form a gateway into the rest of the Psalms.

Join us on our new series of content showcasing talks from World Assemblies. Annette Arulrajah, IFES Associate General Secretary, opens World Assembly 2023 by exploring our theme - 'Tabah dan Tangguh' - through the imageries of pilgrimage in Psalm 84.

Meet the originator of this creative evangelism with our latest Voices of IFES Podcast: Silas Walter, IFES InterAction staff working with the IFES movement in Bulgaria ( BCSU ) through IFES InterAction,  shares about the event and his cross-cultural experiences with IFES.  

In this new edition of Voices of IFES you’ll discover what it looks like to go to World Assembly - and how you can pray and support movements and IFES Staff. We’re looking forward to gather in August 2023 with representatives of our fellowship.

Jean-Davy est originaire de la Guadeloupe, une île française des Caraïbes. Écoutez sa carrière au sein de l'IFES et la manière dont il aide les îles et départements francophones à faire croître leur mouvement, qui sont parfois encore en développement. Découvrez ce que font ces îles et départements et écoutez des histoires de vies transformées.   Si vous voulez en savoir plus et recevoir leurs lett...

Venez avec nous en Afrique du Nord alors que Maéva s'entretient avec Armand Mendene, le secrétaire général du mouvement IFES en Tunisie, au sujet de l'incroyable travail du mouvement étudiant parmi les étudiants internationaux, qui viennent de toute l'Afrique pour étudier en Tunisie. Découvrez les origines et les contextes du ministère, les défis auxquels les étudiants internationaux sont confront...

‘Because of the debt of gratitude I have for this ministry – it's how I came to know Christ, God called me here, and that’s how I became a staff worker’.  From IVCF, the IFES movement in the Philippines which is celebrating its 70th anniversary next year, many other ministries have flowed, like the Nurses Christian Fellowship, a literature ministry, high school ministry, and missionaries sent to o...

La iniciativa Logos y Cosmos, o ILC, es un aspecto emocionante y relativamente nuevo de IFES, que fomenta el diálogo entre la teología y las ciencias. Únase al anfitrión invitado Toto Bermúdez, Secretario General de CBUU Uruguay y miembro del equipo regional de América Latina, mientras se sienta con Ale, Coordinador de LCI en América Latina, y Marcio, Profesor de Arquitectura y Planificación Urban...