With David Howard’s passing yesterday, InterVarsity remembers his lasting impact mobilizing students and campus for God’s global mission.
As director or assistant director of multiple Urbana conferences (51, 70, 73 and 76) and as president of both Latin American Mission and the World Evangelical Fellowship, David’s humble and servant-hearted leadership in missions spanned nearly six decades.
It was 1983, at the height of the Cold War. Bob was an InterVarsity Area Director in New Jersey with four years of campus ministry experience preceded by four years as a local church pastor. A friend working in Eastern Europe had invited Bob to teach church history to Romanian pastors for three weeks during the summer.
When Joel and Rachel Watters first visited the campus of La Universidad Nacional Pérez Zeledón in southern Costa Rica a year ago, they sensed that God was already at work.
The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students has announced new leadership for the global movement that includes InterVarsity.
InterVarsity says good-bye to two key staff, Marilyn Stewart and Bill McConell, whose lengthy service to campus ministry includes work among university students in the US and, through the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, in Latin America.
“The number of international students keeps growing like crazy,” says Daniel Bourdanné, IFES General Secretary. “What an amazing ministry opportunity.”
World Student Day celebrates God’s work on college campuses around the world through the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).
Dr. Denis Mukwege, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018, is a graduate of InterVarsity’s sister movement in Burundi, where he did part of his medical studies.
Gwen Wong was InterVarsity’s second Asian American staff member and was known throughout her adult life for her love of teaching inductive Bible study. She was also known at one time for her fastball.