IFES Prayerline

Deepening 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 👇 

Washing the University’s Feet

😱 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?

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! 

Voice matters

🤩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.

Profound 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. 

Breaking 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.”🥹❤️ 
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?   

Strength to continue for young emerging leaders in closed countries

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. 🙏 

Peacemakers 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. 🕊️ 
With the Acts 4 initiative students are making a difference to transform the nation! https://ifesworld.org/en/prayerline/peacemakers-in-ethnic-civil-conflict/