Activities
Representatives of all the member movements gather once every four years at the "World Assembly", where the General Committee meets to conduct official business of the fellowship. The last World Assembly occurred in July 2011 in Krakow, Poland at the Jagiellonian University and was hosted by the Polish member movement ChSA. The prior World Assembly was held in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, hosted by Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada and Redeemer University College. The one prior to this was held in July 2003 in Dalfsen, Netherlands and was the most widely represented student ministry event in history.
For students, regional conferences are organised every few years. In Europe and Eurasia, there is the European Student Evangelism Conference. In 2000 it was held in Aschaffenburg, Germany, in Győr, Hungary in 2004 and in Linz, Austria in 2008 (Conference website). The last East Asia Regional Conference was held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2005. This event attracted around five hundred students from all over East Asia.
IFES also offers Summer- and Year-teams (www.ifesinteraction.org), which are composed of students and recent graduates who use their holidays or an academic year to help establish student movements in Europe and Eurasia by pioneering new work or assisting established movements.
Christian literature distribution is also a feature of this ministry. InterVarsity Press (USA), Inter-Varsity Press (UK), Presses Bibliques Africaines (Francophone Africa), Harmat (Hungary), Andamio (Spain), and Ediciones Certeza (Latin America) are examples of regional publishing houses.
Student missions conferences occur frequently in the fellowship. Examples of this are Urbana (North America), Mission Korea (South Korea) and "Whom Shall I Send?" (Sudan). Plans for future conferences are developing, and at present there are such events planned in India, Rwanda, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. There is to be Eurasia’s first-ever missions conference in Ukraine, and others in South Korea, Taiwan, Jamaica, Mexico, and probably also Bolivia and Guatemala in Latin America.
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