Union of Evangelical Students of India-Delhi

A common need posted on: 5 November 2012 by: Daniel Bourdanné This post was originally posted on the  Ichtus Belgium blog  leading up to their week of prayer. What is it like to be a student today in Belgium? In Brazil? In Burkina Faso? In Britain? At the start of a new academic year here in the UK, universities and student life feature more prominently in the press. Alongside news that students at Cambridge University can now get up to 60 free condoms a week, there is debate whether the fall in demand for university places is related to the rise in tuition fees, and also discussion about what changes in university rankings might mean for the future of higher education. The headlines may well be different in another country, yet, as I travel and meet students around the world, I encounter common themes. Friendships and relationships matter. Community is important. More and more people feel the need to be living in community, to belong. Given

Dangerous Decline By a conservative estimate, female foeticide accounts for at least half a million missing female births in India every year, according to research findings published in British Medical journal Lancet. The Lancet Report 2011 estimates that more than 12 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India in the last three decades. India was recently ranked as the fourth worst country in the world for the safety and wellbeing of women, citing the high rates of child marriage, trafficking, slavery, female feticide, and female infanticide as contributing factors. Even when a female child manages to survive past the first year of her life, she often suffers “systematic neglect, inferior medical care, poor nutrition, and substandard education” compared to her male counterparts. Girl babies are “breast-fed less frequently” and for a “shorter duration” than baby boys, and receive little to no medical care. 71 percent of young females experience severe malnutrit

So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God. Acts 12:5 (NASB). In the ministry of UESI , corporate prayer is one of the important ways that  the students, the graduate, and the staff can participate together and do the ministry more effectively. Private prayer life is a discipline we teach to our students in every camp. As breathing is vital for physical life, personal prayer is important for spiritual life. In the same way, corporate prayer is vital for the body of Christ the Universal Church. In the 1970’s and 80’s there used to be all night prayers at local level EGFs and 3 day prayer conferences at district level and state level. In those gatherings, we usually had a short time of praise and worship followed by short exhortation and then a time of corporate prayer. During these sessions, we never used to be bored or felt like dragging. It used to be a conscious participation by all the members interceding for the need

Dear friends, Some of you in our Facebook group on Engaging the University were not at the IFES World Assembly, but have been in conversation with me for some time about the topic. Others who were at the World Assembly seem to have discovered these issues for the first time. Still others are excited, but also somewhat confused as to what it does and does not entail for IFES ministries. So, I thought I should lead with a brief historical preamble by way of orientation. My wife and I first met Prof. Terry Halliday at an IVCF-USA Following Christ conference in Atlanta, in the last week of 2002. This was a conference for graduate students and faculty (called postgraduates and lecturers in the British-influenced universities!). I was a plenary Bible expositor and Terry led a track for social scientists. It was a fruitful encounter and we have remained friends with a shared concern for the intellectual credibility of our IFES movements in the world of the university. Over the

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T he concept of giving can be viewed as a duty or as a means of flaunting ones wealth. Giving is neither new to humanity nor is it peculiar only to Christianity. Dutiful giving is common in many religions. However, as a Christian we give because we have received so much from God and   giving becomes a part of us with the realization that we own nothing and everything that we have is part of Gods resources. It is important not to give just for the sake of giving as this may lead to the giver being detached from the receiver and thus the giver may not be able to understand the persons needs or situation defeating the whole purpose. As Christian students, we have been given resources that need to be used carefully. Education in India is not received by all and we are a privileged lot to study in the university. The talents we have developed through different activities are also unique to each of us and is a resource that we can pass on. Some of our belongings, probably precious only