As our group grew in size and influence, we were visited by another InterVarsity graduate, Robert Young, who was a traveling secretary with the
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).
I could make a distinction in my selection between the books that shaped my practice of mission during the twenty-six years I worked with the
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), some of them inspirational, expressing a deep spirituality, and the books that shaped my missiological reflection, especially after I started to teach mission courses in the United States.
My third visit was in 1953 to an early conference of the
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), drawn almost entirely from North America and Europe rather than the Third World.
There I heard about a widower who had spent forty years in Brazil teaching nuclear physics in state universities and investing his time, energy, and leadership skills in campus student ministries with the Alianca Biblica Universitaria, an
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students affiliate.
Earlier he was involved for twenty years in Christian student work with the
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Africa.
He is regional secretary for the
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students and lives in Sri Lanka, site of serious conflict.
Many delegates participated in a Saturday lunch-fast, netting more than $80,000 for hunger relief.(6) They also gave $216,000 in cash and $94,000 in "faith promises," a total of $310,000, to the
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students for its program of worldwide student evangelization.