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Prayerline delivers a weekly story coming straight from the grassroots of one of our 160 IFES movements. You may hear stories of the bravery of students facing persecution, innovative approaches to evangelism, or the impact of a small dormitory Bible study. At the end we will give you a few ways to pray for the students you met in the story. It is a great way to stay up to date on how you can pray for movements around the world.
Prayerline is written by Abbie Parry and produced by Maéva Oltra, with many thanks to the hundreds of student movements who give us the inspiration and information to tell these stories.
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🙏 In the latest Prayerline, learn how a sad but curious student was transformed after sitting next to a Christian in class. Be encouraged how unexpected opportunities can result in life-changing conversations and pray for students in the USA.
🙏 In the latest Prayerline, discover how Laurent’s LCI project in Burundi has been promoting peace among students and pastors. Learn how deep-rooted ethnic tensions are being addressed and pray for lasting change.
Important news about why this feed is ending, where to find future Prayerline podcasts, and what else you can expect from the Voice of IFES feed.
Listen the latest podcast here : https://ifesworld.org/en/podcast/
What kind of influencer are you?
In the latest Prayerline, discover how student leaders in North Africa were inspired to be godly influencers – not as leaders in the limelight but as encouragers behind the scenes.
Learn about the challenges of their context and pray that they can have a Barnabas-like impact among their peers.
In the latest Prayerline, discover how God used fellowship, Scripture, and hands-on service in FES-Gambia to form a servant-hearted leader striving for honesty, patience, and accountability. Find out more and pray for them : www.ifesworld.org/en/prayerline/shaped-for-service/
IFES Global Giving day : www.ifesworld.org/ggd
🍝 In the latest Prayerline, meet a New Zealand TSCF group that gained confidence in their outreach by mixing in some friendly hospitality. Be inspired by how God is at work and pray for them as they help others get a taste of Jesus.
🙏 In the latest Prayerline, read how faith is flourishing in this South Asian country – despite persecution. Meet two students transformed by the gospel. Learn about the hardships they face and pray for this fledgling movement.
In the latest Prayerline, read about the determined faith of staff and students in GBEUH Haiti. Learn about the deep challenges they face and how they’re persevering. Pray for Haiti. Pray for them. Pray right now.
📖✨In the latest Prayerline, discover how students’ courageous and creative use of God’s Word is impacting peers in Armenia. Be inspired and pray for them.
🙌See the prophetic and eye-opening impact that Christian students can have when they deeply engage with campus life – and pray for them. Read Leonie’s story in the latest Prayerline and pray for students in Ichtus Belgium.
Are you hopeful for 2025? In the latest Prayerline, Tim Adams (IFES General Secretary) shares why he is. Discover some of the reasons he has to be expectant of what God will do this year – and join him in prayer.👇
In the latest Prayerline, look back at how “God has surely listened” to your prayers for students and situations spotlighted this year. Be encouraged – find out what happened when your prayed...
In the latest Prayerline, discover how the national camp of @GBUST - Groupes Bibliques Universitaires et Scolaires du Togo refreshed students and prepared them to be Christ’s messengers, ready to serve thirsty souls. Bless them today by praying for them and student ministry in Togo.
🥭➡️🏫In the latest Prayerline, discover how one fellowship group in Timor-Leste went from having to gather under a mango tree to openly holding meetings in a classroom. Read how they’ve persevered and witnessed God’s faithfulness – and pray for them 🙏
In the latest Prayerline, discover how a Logos and Cosmos Initiative project is tackling violence and injustice in Latin America – by shaping students’ theology and stirring them to action.
In the latest Prayerline, hear directly from the Middle East. Read Regional Secretary Jamil’s heartfelt cry for prayer. And Roula in Lebanon shares how war is affecting their lives and ministry. Pray for them in this “deeply painful situation”.
🎂70 and still going strong, but they need your prayers 🙏
In this week’s Prayerline, we investigate the context behind two World Student Day Prayer Cards from India. Learn how UESI Union of Evangelical Students of India started 70 years ago, hear about today’s situation, and pray for those continuing the UESI mission today. As we prepare for World Student Day on Friday, let’s pray that India’s multitude of students will find sanctuary in Christ!
Make sure you’re signed up to pray with Srinivas, Shashank, and thousands of others on World Student Day. See their requests and the prayer needs of others from around the world on the Prayer Cards page and access the Resource Hub for more content to help you pray on the day.
“For the people living here, it was amazing – they’d never seen such care for their community. The willingness of the students really surprised them.”
Who were these people and why did no-one care for their community? And what did the students do?
Find out in the latest Prayerline. Discover how students in EvaSUE Ethopia have been putting their love for God into practical action by serving a community of outcasts in Bahir Dar. Marvel at how the gospel is challenging stereotypes, changing lives, and shaping ambitions. Pray for them today.
“In that moment, I realised that the only source of what is good, what is new and true, is Christ.”
Find out what happened to Karine “in that moment” in the latest Prayerline. Read about her experience at an InterVarsity USA camp – how one line of Scripture moved her from spiritual exhaustion to spiritual renewal – in just 30 seconds! 😩📖🤩
Be encouraged by this testimony of God’s Spirit at work through the Word. And pray for Karine, her campus, and InterVarsity/USA. 👇
In the latest Prayerline, find out how the courageous yet gentle invitation of one student in MUEVE Venezuela changed the whole course of a classmate’s life. Read this touching story of God’s grace working through faithful witness – a student who “didn’t know what love was” discovering God as the source of “inexhaustible love”.
🙏 Pray for this movement ministering in a difficult context.
Discover more about student ministry in this Caribbean subregion of Latin America with IFES Coordinator Gisela Muñoz in this Voices of IFES podcast.
In the latest Prayerline, find out why a student from French Guiana chose to travel thousands of miles to reach a camp in Martinique. Discover the life-changing impact of that decision and pray for students facing tough choices in the French-speaking Caribbean.
📖👀 “I’ve read this so many times before, but I never saw that!” ✨📖
In the latest Prayerline, discover how an IFES team in Central Asia helped spark insights into Scripture. By creating study notes in Russian that addressed local needs and cultural nuances, they’ve deepened daily devotions for students and churches.
Find out more and pray for engagement with God’s Word in Eurasia 👇
😱 Have you ever had to explain your student witness to a panel of top-ranking university officials?
Wirlley had to. In the latest Prayerline, discover how he and his student group GBU Vila Real caught the attention of students and officials with a petition that blessed the whole campus 🙌
What did they do? 🚌🛑 Find out and see how you can pray for them and other students in GBU Portugal 🙏
Less 📉 is more? 📈 In the latest Prayerline, learn how leadership training with 3 staff in the Solomon Islands is equipping them to empower new student groups. 🙏 Let’s pray for growth!
🤩Exciting🤯Eye-opening💪Empowering💫Life-changing
The IFES East Asia Regional Conference (EARC) has the potential to be all this, and more. Will you pray that it is? 🙏
In this week’s Prayerline, we hear from participants who will shortly arrive at EARC 2024 in Bangkok, hosted by Thai Christian Students (TCS). Discover what they’re looking forward to and how the “Voice Matters” theme will call them to be a prophetic voice in their contexts. 📣
Pray for them to hear God’s voice and return to their 23 countries with a voice that brings him glory.
🎒 What’s the most exciting journey you’ve ever been on? Did you stay in a different country? Taste a different culture? Meet new people?
In the latest Prayerline, read about three students who’ve journeyed from India to Georgia for their university degree. In the process, they’re not only discovering a new place, culture, and people, they’re also discovering Christ. 🙌
Learn about a growing IFES Georgia group in Kutaisi that’s reaching out to international students.
💔😰“Moments of deep silence were followed by floods of tears and cries of pain. As the students vented their feelings, we witnessed liberation from hatred, anger, and resentment.”🥹❤️
In the latest Prayerline, find out more about this life-changing event in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read how Sarah, part of GBU RD Congo, is leading an IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative that’s helping students to “break the silence” and speak about the war traumas they are carrying.
Will you pray for them?
It’s very tough to be a Christian in some parts of the Middle East. In this week’s Prayerline hear the story of a young staff worker and how his faith in Jesus brought him face to face with authorities. Pray with us for God to work through and for his people in a sensitive Middle Eastern country. 🙏
'This has changed my entire life’.
Meet Denis and Isaac, students in Jonglei state in South Sudan, one of the most troubled places in the world right now. In the latest Prayerline, read about how FOCUS South Sudan has been working to bring gospel peace to a young nation plagued by ethnic violence and hate speech, especially in the university. 🕊️
With the Acts 4 initiative students are making a difference to transform the nation! https://ifesworld.org/en/prayerline/peacemakers-in-ethnic-civil-conflict/
What would you do if thousands of football fans came to visit your city? ⚽
In this Prayerline, read about how students from GBE Cameroon took the gospel to the @confederationofafricanfootball Africa Cup of Nations tournament in January and February, proclaiming good news to the thousands attending the tournament. 📣✝️
How do you respond to a political transformation in your country?
The turmoil of the last few years has left students in Hong Kong feeling powerless, questioning, and despondent. But for a Christian, the surrounding circumstances don’t have the last word.
In this edition of Prayerline, pray with us for the students of FES Hong Kong and their peace in the knowledge that God is sovereign. 🙌
What if God calls you to do something that feels ‘crazy’, to demonstrate his love to a broken world?
Students in Koinonia, the student movement in Cuba, followed their idea to put on a play in a local childrens home, to display and proclaim the love of Jesus to the children who lived there. 🎭 💖
Find out what happened in Prayerline.
How can an IFES student movement make a difference in the fight against human trafficking?
Listen the latest Prayerline to find out how the ‘5 Loaves and 2 Fish project’, a student initiative, is part of the answer in Fiji.
Join us in praying for PSFC, the student movement in Fiji, as they fight poverty and exploitation in their universities.
Creating something from nothing? Only God can do that...
Listen in the latest Prayerline about how God put the vision of a student group in Cluj, Romania, into the hearts of students and young people there, and how amazing things are happening, despite the struggles and setbacks.
Pray for Delia, Raluca, Ale and Ana, as they make disciples in Cluj!
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'This year, I became more confused and overwhelmed than I’m happy to admit. Actually, I lost a lot of my joy and hope for the future’.
Our latest Prayerline is guest written by Tasia, a student from Canada who shares how the issues in her life and in the world affected her and how she was set free from worry.
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Do you want to learn how God has been moving among students this year?
The final Prayerline of 2021 revisits some of the people we prayed for in Prayerline throughout the year. Be encouraged by updates that speak to God’s faithfulness and commit to praying with us for God to move among students in 2022!
What’s a board chair to do?
In the latest Prayerline discover how the student movement in Sri Lanka was changed through the transformation of the board, and pray for FOCUS Sri Lanka as they move forward into a new season.
As the world was shutting down, in the Caribbean new things were beginning.
In this week’s Prayerline, discover how two former student presidents chose to remake their old connections just in time to support the Caribbean movements through the pandemic.
‘The vision of the student generation living for Christ is so much more significant when it’s for all nations. Isn’t there more power and wonder in the vision of a Saviour’s purposes that can be transposed onto rainforests and slums and suburbs, across oceans and barbed wire?’
Our latest Prayerline asks you to pray for IFES staff like Lena, Duncan and Sarah, who are working to fulfil a vision of students reached for Christ worldwide.
Suddenly an angel walked out of the wall. Then another. And another.
Sezim was surrounded. This wasn’t your average late night study session. This was a battle.
How did God strengthen Sezim to stand up to her professor? Find out in this week’s Prayerline.
Jonas thought it was best to keep his mouth shut. He loved God, but he also had a lot of big questions about faith. He did not want anyone to associate his questions with skepticism.
When he went to university, he finally found people who had questions too. He was introduced to a wide world of apologetics. Now with support from the IFES Logos and Cosmos Initiative he is using his research to integrate faith and science.
Hear him explain why he was excited to join the Logos and Cosmos Initiative.
Find out more about Jonas’ story and the vision of Logos and Cosmos in this week’s Prayerline.
This time last year students in Nepal were busy calling up graduates with a big idea. They wanted their World Student Day to have a big impact on their immediate community.
World Student Day 2021 is coming up in just a few weeks. What are your plans? Read this week’s Prayerline to inspire your own ideas for this global day of prayer.
https://ifesworld.org/en/wsd/
As we launch Sobremesa this week, we need your prayers! Pray that students would take up the call to show God’s love their international neighbors. Pray that they would recognize the foreigners on their campus and welcome them into their homes and lives. Listen more about how you can pray in this week’s Prayerline.
https://sobremesa.ifesworld.org/en/
“Commission conference changed my life, and I really thank God. I was able to discover my God-given gift. ”
What happens when students go to Commission? They create hundreds of outreach programs. They start financing missions projects. They even decide to serve as missionaries themselves.
Commission 2021 is happening this fall. While this event is organized by FOCUS Kenya, its online format will make it available to participants from around the world. Find out more on this week’s Prayerline.
We have all been there. You invite your friend to an event at your campus group and they say no every time. Or maybe you ask them how you can pray for them, and they change the subject. It is hard to watch your friends repeatedly reject faith.
José always wished his friend Andrés could experience his hope and faith. But a phone call during the pandemic surprised him.
Listen more on this week’s Prayerline.
Learn more about scripture engagement here: https://scriptureengagement.ifesworld.org/en/
After studying abroad in Australia, Jonathan and Soen had a mission to bring student ministry to Indonesia. That was over 50 years ago. Now, Perkantas is a thriving movement and a blessing to the nations. Still, they need your prayers now as much as they did at the beginning. Join us as we praise God for 50 years of Perkantas and pray for the next season of their ministry.
When you can’t physically go to a new place to pioneer, going virtual opens up a new range of possibilities. CECE Ecuador has seen amazing pioneering progress in areas of the country where they have never even set foot. In this week’s Prayerline, Guadalupe Muñoz from CECE shares how God has worked through virtual groups to make amazing strides in pioneering work.
Why would you ruin a perfectly good plan, God?
Sam knew what he was doing after graduation. He planned to move to Tonga to restart the IFES student ministry there. It had been years since a staff worker had served there. The need for student ministry was so great.
So that’s why it was so confusing when the pandemic ruined everything. The borders closed and Sam was shut out.
As it turned out, God had plans of his own. Find out in this week’s Prayerline.
Maria was caught in the middle between her work and her faith. She felt side-lined by her coworkers who did not understand her faith. But she did not always feel supported by her friends at church, who could not understand why she spent so much time at work. Her story is common among graduates in demanding careers. Find out how Cross-Current, a ministry of Graduate Impact, is helping.
Research from Cross Current was recently featured in Evangelical Focus. Find out more about the challenges graduates face once they leave university and what Cross Current is doing to help.
Engaging the University, Scripture Engagement, Breaking New Ground. What do these three ministries have in common? They are all strengthening university ministry around the world and they all came out of the Living Stones vision for IFES. This vision was implemented twelve years ago and has united our fellowship around common goals that have greatly advanced the impact of student ministry. This week we are praising God for his providence through this period. We are also praying for his guidance as we step into a new season of strategy and vision. Listen this week’s Prayerline to find out how Living Stones has left a legacy that has led us to thrive.
As we begin our week of prayer and lament, we want to lift up the needs of our brothers and sisters in other movements around the world. Take a moment and listen through the prayer requests of all 11 regions of IFES. Use this Prayerline as a guide for your prayers over this week. By sharing each other’s burdens we hope that we will draw closer together as the family of Christ.
Finlay wished his future was as clear as how the ground looked from his airplane. Like other students this year, he struggled with plans that felt unsure. How in the world are we supposed to find security and stability when we don’t even know what the next few months of our lives will look like? But one day this flight student met Jesus. Listen about how his life was changed through conversations with a Christian friend.
Read the full interview to learn more about Finlay’s story.
Most Gen Z students in Mongolia don’t really care about the gospel. That is, until they hear about it from their favorite YouTube stars. When the pandemic hit, FCS Mongolia needed a creative way to engage students online. So, they reached out to a famous Christian YouTube couple for help. Find out how their partnership led to students hearing the gospel for the very first time.