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Voices of IFES
Voices of IFESFrom No Hopes to New Horizons🙏 In the latest Prayerline, discover how one student became part of a fledgling network of ministry in a Central Asian country. Learn how her life was changed at an IFES camp and how she’s now pioneering a group for her peers. Pray for her today!
2026-01-2305 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESCutting Back Thorns🙏 In this first Prayerline of 2026, find out which parable has been on the heart of Tim Adams (IFES General Secretary). Discover how it can guide our prayers for student ministry this year – as we help “cut back the thorns”. 
2026-01-0906 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESPowerful and EffectiveIn the final Prayerline of this year, we hear back from those for whom you’ve prayed. Discover what’s happened – see how your prayers for them and student ministry have been “powerful and effective”. Praise God for how he’s been at work among us! 
2025-12-2305 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESThrough the StormIn the latest Prayerline, discover how students in Serbia have been speaking hope and standing for justice through a year of tragedy, protests, and crackdowns. Learn how they’ve been offering peace through the storm – and pray for them👇
2025-12-1704 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESNo-one is an IslandIn the latest Prayerline, discover how 4 student leaders from different movements in the Caribbean are spearheading a project that will bring together 30 students from across the region to help revitalise ministry in Antigua. They need your prayers!
2025-11-2605 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESTrue to Life🙏 In the latest Prayerline, discover how a fragile small group in Senegal was revived when they experienced truths from God’s “living and active” Word, when “the weak were made strong” and the faithful “found favour”. Be encouraged and pray for them
2025-11-1104 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESA Surprise Gift🙏 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 👇
2025-10-2805 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESImmeasurably More🙏 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
2025-10-1405 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESFeeling Pain and Hope🙏 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
2025-09-3005 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESIt just got real🙏 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
2025-09-1605 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESStanding Firm, Stepping Forward🙏 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
2025-09-0205 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESEverybody Grows📏 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.
2025-08-2105 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESDifficult Topics, Direct TalkIn 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. 
2025-08-0505 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESGiving God Space🙏 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 
2025-07-2205 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESSeriously?🙏 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.   
2025-07-1105 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESHeart Meets Vision🙏 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
2025-06-2404 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineNot by Might🙏 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.
2025-05-1305 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESPassing on a Passion💯 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 👇 
2025-05-0105 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESNews about Voices of IFESHear about all the latest developments on the Voices of IFES podcast feed. Discover why things are changing and what content to expect – including the addition of our biweekly Prayerline.  
2025-04-2502 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlinePrayerline is moving to Voices of IFESImportant 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/  
2025-04-2301 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineA Different Type of InfluencerWhat 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.
2025-04-1505 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineShaped for ServiceIn 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 
2025-03-3105 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineDining with Jesus🍝 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.
2025-03-1805 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineThe Undeniable Gospel🙏 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.
2025-03-0405 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineRising above the RuinsIn 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.
2025-02-1805 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineUnleashing the Word📖✹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.
2025-02-0404 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineA Vocation and a Voice🙌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.
2025-01-2105 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineHopeful for a ReasonAre 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.👇 
2025-01-1605 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineGod has surely listenedIn 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...
2024-12-2308 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineReady for the Thirsty 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. 
2024-12-1004 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineFrom Mango Tree to ClassroomđŸ„­âžĄïžđŸ«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 🙏 
2024-11-2604 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlinePathways to Justice and PeaceIn 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. 
2024-11-1305 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlinePray for war to ceaseIn 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”. 
2024-10-2805 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineSanctuary for multitudes🎂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 t...
2024-10-1505 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineGoing Out to the Outcasts“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. 
2024-10-0104 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineRenewed in 30 seconds“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! đŸ˜©đŸ“–đŸ€©Â  Be encouraged by this testimony of God’s Spirit at work through the Word. And pray for Karine, her campus, and InterVarsity/USA. 👇   
2024-09-1704 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineThe power of a gentle inviteIn 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.  
2024-09-0304 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineA life-changing choiceIn 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.
2024-08-2004 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineDeepening Daily Devotions📖👀 “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 👇 
2024-08-0604 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineWashing the University’s FeetđŸ˜± 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 🙏 
2024-07-2304 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineLess is more?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! 
2024-07-0904 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineVoice mattersđŸ€©ExcitingđŸ€ŻEye-openingđŸ’ȘEmpoweringđŸ’«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.
2024-06-2505 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineProfound Journeys🎒 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. 
2024-06-1104 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineBreaking the Silence💔😰“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.”đŸ„č❀  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?   
2024-05-2905 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineStrength to continue for young emerging leaders in closed countriesIt’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. 🙏 
2022-06-1304 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlinePeacemakers in ethnic civil conflict'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. đŸ•ŠïžÂ  With the Acts 4 initiative students are making a difference to transform the nation! https://ifesworld.org/en/prayerline/peacemakers-in-ethnic-civil-conflict/
2022-05-0205 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineThe Gospel Proclaimed at the Africa Cup of NationsWhat 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. đŸ“ŁâœïžÂ 
2022-04-2503 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlinePolitical Turmoil and the Anchor of God’s WordHow 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. 🙌 
2022-04-1904 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineBecause he first loved us: visiting a children’s homeWhat 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.  
2022-04-1403 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineFighting human trafficking with gospel compassionHow 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. 
2022-03-2505 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineNew beginnings in ClujCreating 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!  Follow us on Instagram, Facebook,Twitter
2022-02-1404 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineWhen worries overwhelm us'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.  Follow us on Instagram, Facebook,Twitter
2022-01-2504 minVoices of IFES
Voices of IFESA Christmas Message from Tim Adams‘This Christmas I pray that each of us will find the humility, curiosity and openness to once again follow the star and be ready to encounter Christ in a fresh way’  We hope you have a wonderful Christmas season. In this Christmas message, IFES General Secretary Tim Adams shares his reflections on the attitudes of the Magi as their academic pursuits led them to Jesus – in humility, joy and worship.  At the end of another tough year, we are looking to Jesus like the Magi, confident that we will find everlasting joy with him whatever we are going thr...
2021-12-2305 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineGod has been working this yearDo 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! 
2021-12-2108 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineCreating the space for student ministryWhat’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.  
2021-12-0703 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineClosed Borders, Renewed Connections through AlumniAs 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.  
2021-11-2304 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineKeeping IFES thriving, together‘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.
2021-11-0904 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineNo ordinary fightSuddenly 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.
2021-10-2604 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineThe apologetic scientistJonas 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...
2021-10-1204 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineHearts of prayer, hands of serviceThis 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/
2021-10-0502 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineWhen we welcome the foreignerAs 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/
2021-09-2804 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineThat the world may know“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. 
2021-09-2103 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineWaiting for your friendsWe 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.  JosĂ© always wished his friend AndrĂ©s 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/
2021-09-1403 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineVirtual Pioneering in EcuadorWhen 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.  
2021-08-3103 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineGod ruins a perfect planWhy 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.
2021-08-2403 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineBuilt Together as Living StonesEngaging 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 L...
2021-08-1003 minIFES Prayerline
IFES PrayerlineSharing Burdens in PrayerAs 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.  
2021-08-0207 min