WORLD ASSEMBLY FOCUSES ON GLOBAL STUDENT MINISTRY
For Immediate Release
(Madison, WI) 鈥 果冻视频 is among the 170 affiliates of the (IFES) gathering in South Africa July 3-11, 2019, for the , which is held every four years.
果冻视频 President Tom Lin eagerly anticipates the opportunity for 果冻视频 staff and student leaders to interact with Christian student movements from other countries and cultures. 鈥淭here is so much to learn from one another, including from movements in post-Christian Western contexts, majority world contexts where Christians are marginalized on campus, and contexts with significant racial and political division,鈥 he said.
One of the current IFES initiatives is called Breaking New Ground, which aims to plant 100 new student groups in cities across the globe. It springs from the same vision as 果冻视频鈥檚 2030 Calling, with the goal of partnering with other ministries to see witnessing communities established at 2,500 US colleges and universities by the year 2030.
鈥淢y hope is that our 果冻视频 delegation can be encouraged by, and learn from, the innovation happening in these planting efforts,鈥 Lin said. 鈥淲e also have much to learn from other movements regarding how to effectively engage alumni, mobilize volunteers, and partner well with churches.鈥
Kurt Thiel, the director of 果冻视频鈥檚 Link program, which partners 果冻视频 staff and volunteers with IFES movements in 31 countries, is anticipating developing stronger partnerships with more IFES movements at World Assembly.
鈥淚 pray that we would listen and learn from each other,鈥 Thiel said. 鈥淕od is moving through students around the world in issues like prayer, witness, challenges of campus access, empowering volunteers and alumni to lead groups, and seeking the shalom of the land. We have much to learn.鈥
Lin added, 鈥淚 always leave World Assembly with a deeper faith and deeper commitment to our mission. Our unity together as a diverse global fellowship is always so inspiring.鈥
果冻视频 was officially organized in the US in 1941 and was one of the 10 student movements that founded IFES in 1947. 果冻视频 currently has 1,121 student and faculty chapters on 772 US campuses.
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