Investing a life in Italy

In the summer of 2013, Zach Smith was on the verge of entering student ministry. He told his story in Canvas that year—how he’d met IFES workers at an Urbana conference, had a burden for seeing a stronger gospel witness in Europe, and was applying for a two-year stint...

Reconnecting with CECE

The partnership with student groups in Ecuador continues to grow as TSCF/CECE staff worker Ruth Hicks visit NZ. After 3 years, it’s been excellent to reconnect with TSCF staff, students and university groups, particularly during Summit. I heard and shared stories of...

Say ‘bula’ with us

From kiwifruit and apples to pineapples and mangos. From thermals and gumboots to jandals and sulus. From “kia ora” to “bula!” From NZ’s culture to Fiji’s. In November a group of students from NZ will leave the shores of Aotearoa to arrive in the welcoming embrace of...

Celebrating with CECE

April 2011: Val Goold, then the national director of student ministry for TSCF, came to share in CECE’s 20th anniversary celebrations. At that time CECE was working in just two cities with two groups meeting weekly on university campuses. From that anniversary...

The South Pacific unites

  TSCF hosted the once-in-a-uni-lifetime South Pacific Regional Conference during the winter holidays. The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students’ four-yearly conference gave students and staff an opportunity to get to know each other’s contexts better,...

Japan’s faithful few

Rosanne Jones, from the UK, works with the student movement in Japan under the umbrella of OMF. She joined TSCF’s annual Staff and Families Conference while visiting New Zealand in January, and encouraged the team with news from another corner of the Pacific.  ...