Each year, IFES World Student Day unites thousands across the globe in 48 hours of prayer. Students, staff, and supporters join together to pray for students worldwide and celebrate all that God is doing through local IFES ministry in the world’s universities. 

In a fractured and hostile world, we may feel overwhelmed and fearful. Our upward gaze on God can slip. So, this World Student Day, will you “lift up your eyes” in prayer? Will you refresh your faith in the Maker and Redeemer of our world?  

On Thursday 8 October, join with tens of thousands to pray for students worldwide.  

We’ll “lift up our eyes” to focus on a Sovereign Lord who gives strength to the weary and restores the downhearted (Isaiah 40). We’ll “lift up our eyes and look around” to notice how he is already at work among the nations (Isaiah 49, 60). 

Together, let’s reorient our gaze.  

Using Gen Z’s requests from campuses around the globe, let’s look around and celebrate what God is doing. And let’s pray for the anxious to behold Christ’s compassion and the spiritually seeking to see his saving power. 

Wherever you are, however you feel on World Student Day, lift up your eyes.

Find out more and sign up at ifesworld.org/wsd