Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada

Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada, or IVCF Canada, is a Christian organization which seeks to help children, teens and young adults discover God's love through campus and camp ministries. Inter-Varsity's mission is to seek the transformation of youth, students and graduates, in all their ethnic diversity, into fully committed followers of Jesus Christ.

Founded in 1929, the organization remains committed to its original purpose: to reach young people for Jesus Christ and to help them become life-long disciples.

Inter-Varsity hosts more than 90 student groups in high schools and colleges and universities across Canada and also operates nine Inter-Varsity Camps under the names Pioneer and Circle Square Ranches. We reach more than 25,000 young people annually. There are about 3500 core students in our campus groups, with another 10,000 who periodically attend our events. Every summer, some 9,500 children and teens attend our residential summer camps. Throughout the year, another 20,000 young people visit our camps through school programs, church retreats and other programs.

Inter-Varsity is a founding member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.

Geri Rodman is the current president. The National Service Centre is located in Toronto, ON.

History

In 1928 Norman Grubb 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. [1]

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  1. ↑ For Christ and the University: The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the U.S.A./ 1940-1990' by Keith & Gladys Hunt, InterVarsity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8308-4996-3, p 61-73.

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