🙏 In the latest Prayerline, learn how a Nepalese student in the Philippines started sharing Christ with his Filipino coursemates. Discover how International Student Ministry is much more than reaching overseas students! Read or listen today and pray for ISM and students in the Philippines 👇

Each year for World Student Day, students and staff in IFES movements and ministries share prayer requests for students and campuses across the globe. These are turned into Prayer Cards that thousands use to pray for God’s work on World Student Day.  In this Voices of IFES, listen to a selection of this year’s prayer requests and use the melodic pauses to reflect and pray.  If you use this podcast to pray, make sure you include yourself on the World Student Day Prayer Map. Sign up here.  To see all of this year’s requests, visit the Prayer Card page. 

🙏 In the latest Prayerline, discover how a campus survey became a powerful act of listening. Learn how Lucas from ABUA Córdoba saw God do immeasurably more: deeper listening, wider partnerships, and higher student engagement. 🙌 Pray for them today

In this Voices of IFES, we speak to David Velkovski, a pharmacy student and part-time staff worker with SEAM, the IFES movement in North Macedonia. David shares his journey from shy newcomer in Skopje to active leader in SEAM. As IFES celebrates 50 years of World Student Day this October, David also shares how his movement marks the day and what it means for him.  David speaks of the power of prayer in connecting students across the world and notes how it helps SEAM grow in faith and community. He also offers insights into what it’s like to share Christ in his context, a predominantly religious culture, and how important it is to build deep relationships. David’s story is a heartwarming testimony to the call of IFES to be part of something bigger – locally, nationally, and globally. 

🙏 In the latest Prayerline, meet students from the Middle East and North Africa. Hear firsthand from some who recently participated in a regional conference and get a sense of the pain and hope they experience in their context. They need your prayers

In this Voices of IFES, listen to David (“Monty”) Montgomery (Regional Secretary for IFES Europe) open up Matthew 28:16-20 on the closing night of the European Student Festival (August 2025).   Having established the need for obedience and worship, he then unpacks “the Great Commission” with four words: proclaim, produce, presence, and power. He urges around 500 students from across Europe and beyond to return to their campuses to boldly proclaim the gospel and produce whole-life disciples – in the presence and by the power of Jesus Christ. 

🙏 In the latest Prayerline, discover what happened when a team from North America visited IFES Eurasia’s camp for student leaders. What did they take away? How did perspectives change? Learn how “missions” got real, with real faces and real relationships

🙏 The latest Prayerline offers words from IFES movements in South Asia to guide your prayers for students in the region. From the threat of excommunication to the impact of blood donation, discover the challenges and blessings – and pray for students

📏 How much growth did you see last year?  In the latest Prayerline, discover a story of growth. 🙌   Learn about graduates in FOCUS Uganda who are meeting a huge need for discipleship by giving just one year to campus ministry. Learn how they’ve grown as they helped students grow in discipleship and outreach.   Students mentored. Staff mobilised. It’s remarkable how much growth God can give in one year!  Listen and pray for them today.

🙅‍♂️ No one is beyond God’s reach🌍 The gospel is still for every nation🫵 And you are uniquely called to serve In the latest Voices of IFES podcast, Femi Adeleye closes his “Rooted” series with three reminders to shape our lives and mission. 🎧 Listen and be inspired to pray for those far from faith, to go wherever God sends, and to serve faithfully in your own God-given identity. 🔗 https://ifesworld.org/en/podcast/ Recorded by @UCCF: The Christian Unions at and for Forum, an annual training event for student leaders run by UCCF Great Britain.

In the latest Prayerline, find out how TSCF Papua New Guinea have been helping students discuss undiscussed issues – from a biblical perspective.  Learn how honest engagement with Scripture has been challenging cultural norms, encouraging accountability, and calling students to Christ-centred love. 

From Kyiv to Oxford, from courtrooms to campus - meet Andriy Hnidets, a follower of Jesus with a passion for justice, truth, and student ministry with CCX Ukraine. 🧑‍⚖️ He’s worked in law, health, and anti-corruption.📚 He’s studied in Ukraine and the UK - and faced some real setbacks along the way.🙏 But through it all, his faith has stayed firm. Tune in to hear Andriy’s honest reflections - full of wisdom, encouragement, and hope for anyone trying to follow Jesus in hard places.

🙏 In the latest Prayerline, discover why a boat trip down a Latvian river and a continent-wide student festival are creating more space for organic conversations. Find out how lives have been changed and pray for more transformation 

In this Voices of IFES, Dr Femi Adeleye reflects on Daniel 1, showing how dislocated migrant students can be powerful witnesses in contexts opposed to God. With inspiring examples and testimonies from his own context and encounters across the world, Femi encourages us to be a blessing wherever we are placed – or displaced.    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’s the second of three “Rooted” talks by Femi at Forum, an annual training event run by UCCF for student leaders.  

🙏 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.