International Fellowship of Evangelical Students


The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students is an association of 170 evangelical Christian student movements worldwide, encouraging evangelism, discipleship and mission among students. The headquarters is in Oxford, England.

History

In United Kingdom, the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, founded in 1879, was a founding member of the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain in 1892. Then in 1928, students left SCM due to differences over liberal positions and founded the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. This movement was established in Canada in 1928 and in the United States in 1941.
In 1947, the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students was founded. Representatives from Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, France, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the United States came together in Boston to strengthen evangelism, discipleship and world mission among students all over the world.

Programs

Group meetings are held each week to discuss the Bible in universities.These groups are Evangelical, but not attached to any particular confession.

International conventions

Representatives of all the member movements gather once every four years at the "World Assembly", where the General Committee meets to conduct official business of the fellowship.

Publishing houses

Christian literature distribution is also a feature of this ministry. InterVarsity Press, Inter-Varsity Press, Presses Bibliques Africaines, Harmat, Andamio, and Ediciones Certeza are examples of regional publishing houses.