Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada
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Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada, or IVCF Canada, is a Christian organization which ministers to youth and university students through a variety of ministries, including Pioneer Camps of Canada, high school, college and university ministries such as Acadia Christian Fellowship or ACF. IVCF Canada is a member organization of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
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Ms. Geri Rodman is the current president. The organizational centre is in Toronto.
reported to the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (IVF) in Britain of the spiritual decay happening at Canadian universities. In response, IVF sent Dr. Howard Guinness to Canada to help start evangelical student work at the universities. For fourteen months Guinness traveled across Canada, meeting with students at the universities and providing them with a model of daily prayer meet ups and weekly Bible study. Guinness also promoted training leaders in high schools and camps.
IVCF Canada was officially organized in late 1929. In 1934 Stacey Woods became the new general secretary of IVCF Canada and in 1938 he helped establish the first IVCF chapters in the United States.
- Develop Faithful Witness: To witness to the Lord Jesus Christ as God incarnate and to seek to lead others to a personal faith in Him.
- Cultivate Spiritual Growth: To deepen and strengthen the spiritual life and gifts of followers by the study of the Bible, fellowship, prayer, and worship.
- Demonstrate Christian Love: To encourage Christians empowered by the Holy Spirit to love our neighbours as ourselves.
- Seek All Truth in Jesus Christ: To assist Christians in exploring and asserting the relevance of the Christian faith to every aspect of private life and public concern.
- Shape Servant Leaders: To develop godly men and women to serve as leaders in God’s work in the world.
- Grow a Missional Commitment: To affirm God’s call that all Christians are called to serve Him through their lives and work and to participate in the global mission of the church by praying, giving, and serving.
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students is an association of about 136 evangelical Christian student movements worldwide, encouraging evangelism, discipleship and mission among students. The goal of the organisation is to establish local autonomous student movements in every country...
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Ms. Geri Rodman is the current president. The organizational centre is in Toronto.
History
In 1928 Norman GrubbNorman Grubb
Norman Percy Grubb was a missionary statesman, writer and theological teacher.- Early life :Grubb was born in London, the son of an Anglican vicar. He was educated at an English Public School before joining the British Army as a lieutenant in World War I. After the war, in which he was wounded in...
reported to the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (IVF) in Britain of the spiritual decay happening at Canadian universities. In response, IVF sent Dr. Howard Guinness to Canada to help start evangelical student work at the universities. For fourteen months Guinness traveled across Canada, meeting with students at the universities and providing them with a model of daily prayer meet ups and weekly Bible study. Guinness also promoted training leaders in high schools and camps.
IVCF Canada was officially organized in late 1929. In 1934 Stacey Woods became the new general secretary of IVCF Canada and in 1938 he helped establish the first IVCF chapters in the United States.
Core Purpose
Being shaped by God’s word and led by the Holy Spirit, the purpose of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada is the transformation of youth, students and graduates, in all their ethnic diversity, into fully committed followers of Jesus Christ.Core Values
Through witnessing communities, we:- Develop Faithful Witness: To witness to the Lord Jesus Christ as God incarnate and to seek to lead others to a personal faith in Him.
- Cultivate Spiritual Growth: To deepen and strengthen the spiritual life and gifts of followers by the study of the Bible, fellowship, prayer, and worship.
- Demonstrate Christian Love: To encourage Christians empowered by the Holy Spirit to love our neighbours as ourselves.
- Seek All Truth in Jesus Christ: To assist Christians in exploring and asserting the relevance of the Christian faith to every aspect of private life and public concern.
- Shape Servant Leaders: To develop godly men and women to serve as leaders in God’s work in the world.
- Grow a Missional Commitment: To affirm God’s call that all Christians are called to serve Him through their lives and work and to participate in the global mission of the church by praying, giving, and serving.
Statement of Faith
See also
- InterVarsity Christian FellowshipInterVarsity Christian FellowshipInterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is an inter-denominational, evangelical Christian, student-led ministry which for the past 70 years has been dedicated to establishing witnessing communities on U.S. college and university campuses...
, a similar organization in the United States of America, which Inter-Varsity Canada gave birth to.
External links
- http://www.ivcf.ca/
- http://www.ifesworld.org/
- http://www.intervarsity.org/
- http://www.ivpress.com/
- http://www.urbana.org/